So let's start with Sunday, approximately 6 hours after I posted last weeks entry. We are at the ER again, because this time, Alex tried to attack the marker tray on a white board at my cousin Matt and Stacey's wedding shower. It got him right in the chin, so Grandma and I had to take him in. He needed two stitches this time. Also, as soon as he knew we were going to the doctor, the crying stopped, and this is the way he settled in to the ER room:
He only shed one tear when they did the stitches, but he cried even more when they gave him the shot before the stitches with the relaxing medication in it. He didn't cry because he was hurt, he wanted a band-aid on his leg (even though it wasn't bleeding). Grandma laughed a lot when the relaxing medicine started to take hold on him, because he was having so many problems playing iPad and even trying to sit up. But, when all was said and done, he was quite the brave little boy, and he had to check out his new stitches in a mirror one of the nurses brought in for him:
When we came home, and showed both Grandpa and Dad his new battle wound, he then had to steal my phone and take pictures of himself, and these are just SOME of them:
He had quite the week with Dad, since I worked every day this week. He didn't have any pain from his stitches, and played like normal. On Friday, we went back to the doctor to have the stitches taken out, which turned into the same battle we had before. Dad had to hold him, because he was scared what they were going to do. But after he was done, he realized that he was not dead, and all of his face was still there (minus the two stitches that we started calling his "whiskers"), and last night, while he and I were in a silly mood, we took more pictures:
Now, to be completely honest, all of these pictures is really me being strategic. Alex doesn't like having his picture taken normally, so I am trying to make it more enjoyable. Both he and Tony refuse to have a proper picture taken, and when it comes time for us to have family pictures done, I don't want to have to fight with BOTH of them. So I figure I will get the littler one used to it, and then remind the bigger one that he is an adult and this is just something that adults have to suck up and do sometimes. Like... getting a drivers licence photo.
I start school on Monday, and Alex has this next week off with Dad and a couple of days with Grandpa. He starts Kindergarten on the 4th, and I hope he is ready. Full day, going to and from school on the bus, getting to come home instead of Grandpa's after school.... it will be an adventure indeed. Well, apparently it is reading time, so I am going to go get comfy on the couch and listen to him read to me for a while. Oh, and before I go, there is a rumor that he showed Dad how to spell blanket. This has not been confirmed with me yet, for I have not seen it and he refuses to spell it for me. But I am waiting to see it spelled with his magnetic letters sometime soon.
I hope you all have a great week, and I will leave you with some "Alex Riding in Dad's Car" pictures, with his hair blowing in the breeze, and one with his new bedtime shirt from Aunt Amy and Uncle Andy:
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