Britany's Blog

Sure it’s broken…

but at least I can still play Nintendo!!!

So, here’s the scoop.  Barry and DeVonda Hand were having dinner with us tonight and when I called the kids down to dinner, Samuel declared that “Whoever gets to the table first wins!” and as soon as he said it, I saw Peter come careening around the corner in socked feet.  He was going too fast and when he tried to stop, his feet came out from under him and he caught himself with his left arm.  I knew something was wrong when he started screaming and saying “I can’t move!  I can’t move!”.  I ran outside to get Brad and he helped Peter upstairs to his room.  Quite a while later, Peter was still crying (a lot) so I came up to check on him.  I could just tell from the way he was crying he was in a lot of pain.  We called the pediatrician and they said to take him to Acute Kids (equivelant of the ER, only they have a pedi on staff).  I stayed with the company and other two boys and Brad took Peter.  The x-rays supposedly confirmed a fracture close to his elbow, but they will have a radiologist view them tomorrow to make sure.  They put him in a splint and I am going to take him Monday to get a cast put on.  Now, we wait and see how many times he will wake up in the night…

Here are some pictures I was just given from Matthew’s teacher.  Have I mentioned how he LOVES preschool???  His teacher adores him, which is a really great thing for me to see.

I’m so grateful God blessed us with Ms. Cindy and St. Philip’s!

I honestly thought that one day, I would move away from Pearsall and learn to live a Peanut-free life.  But it’s like that dust is running through my veins.  Maybe it’s the zillions of PBJs I make per week (can you believe Matthew has been known to eat 2-3 ENTIRE PBJs in one meal???), but it just seems like the topic of peanuts comes up over and over again.

Especially since Peter decided to write his FIRST EVER report for school on none other than George Washington Carver.

I still remember, as a child, choosing him for research projects because of his ties to the world of peanut farming.  So maybe I influenced Peter to love him as much as I do.

So, since this was his FIRST EVER research project, we spent the past few weeks reading about him, working on Peter’s report, then finally, turning it in on Monday.

Today, he read his report to the class, and he was instructed to dress up like the man himself.  Here he is – George Washington Carver – minus, of course, the black face (which would have been oh so politically incorrect, although Peter really thought it would add to the look.  That and a boutonniere, since the picture he had of GWCarver showed him with a boutonniere in his pocket.):

Peter as George Washington Carver

In case you have been wondering what we’ve been up two, I’ll give you three guesses:

Kitchen

Making full-use of our 5 burner stove!

Middle of cooking day...

Yep, you guessed it!  We did our Once A Month Cooking weekend.  My feet are finally recovered, and now I just have to catch up on all the cleaning I haven’t done in, oh, the past few weeks…oops – time to pick up boys!  (It’s also the month I am driving carpool…)