First Stitches

 WARNING!

Due to the graphic nature of this post Parental Guidance is advised!

 Rated: CM (Crappy Mom)-13 for blood, ouchiness and stupidity

I woke the kids up from their naps so we could go get Gavin from school. Chloe took FOREVER to waddle her little butt up the stairs (she kept stopping to look at me and giggle at what I will never know) so we were running a little late. Gavin's school is in the neighborhood a few blocks from our house so sometimes I don't buckle the kids in the van and this was one of those times (stupidity). 

Because we were running late there were already kids on their way home and a boy on a bike who cut right in front of me in the middle of the road and not at the crosswalk (more stupidity).  I hit the brakes to avoid hitting him and his bike. Mason who was standing between the two captain seats in the back flew head first into my center console and immediately started bleeding. Head wounds no matter how small are the worst for bleeding! I grabbed a napkin out of the glove compartment and put pressure on it. I snuggled him and checked him out and then I put him in the front seat next to me so that I could drive with one hand and hold pressure with the other to slow the bleeding.

Gavin was waiting for us when we got there. I got the bleeding somewhat controlled and got all the kids buckled in their seats and had Mason hold the third napkin on his head and we drove to Urgent Care (the closest place) who then sent me to the emergency room because of the severity of it.

 In the meantime I frazzled because my son has a huge gash on his head because of me and my husband whom I've called multiple times to tell him what is going on won't answer his phone! Uggh! We are headed to the ER completely unpresentable. Mason didn't have shoes or socks on, Chloe only had socks on and her shirt was on backwards because she dressed herself and I was still in my workout clothes from Zumba so I looked and smelled wonderful!

Here it is. He was so tough. 

He only cried for a minute right after it happened.

He was excited because they gave him a bear that he got to keep AND he got to watch cartoons.

He was more upset that he had to wear his name band than anything else

During, yes during, his stitches. He didn't even cry. He was so brave so we had to take a picture so show daddy what a trooper he was.

Mason once we were home. Brownie on his face, blood on his shirt and a band-aid on his ouchie.

I didn't even notice the abrasion on the side of his head until the other nurse pointed it out in the ER.

Mason this morning with his 9 stitches and swollen eye.

Needless to say when we took Gavin to school this morning all 3 kids were buckled!

Ducks say Quack

 After years of hunting various animals Cody is proud to announce that he is NO LONGER A GATHERER. He has joined the ranks as an OFFICIAL HUNTER with the rest of my family!

Great job babe, I'm proud of you! Now go shoot us something that will fill our freezer : )

He went duck hunting for the first time on Saturday and came home with 3 ducks. (I think ducks are so cute and had a hard time taking this picture with the dead ducks in it.)

He's going again tonight and taking Gavin with him. It's Gavin's date night and that's what he wanted to do.

Oct. 19, 2013

Life of Fry

 The battle for mirror space in the bathroom has officially begun. Before church Gavin was in the bathroom for about 15 minutes doing his hair. There was a plume of hairspray (I don't even know how old it is, I never use hairspray and I'm not sure why we even have it) when I opened the door and he had gel all over his hands. Good thing we have two bathrooms.

 Cody told me to grab the camera and come in the living room. Chloe was cruising around the house in literally nothing except her jacket and her little bare butt was hanging out.

 The kids are still loving the endless piles of leaves our neighbors trees supply for us.

 Anytime I am in the bathroom it never fails someone has to be in there with me. There is no such thing as privacy with anything anymore. 

I go in to brush my teeth...I get followed

I go in to go to the bathroom...I get followed and inevitably someone else needs to go RIGHT NOW!

I go in to clean the bathroom...I get followed

I go in to make sure I don't have anything in my teeth...I get followed

I go in to shower...I get followed

I go in to put something away...I get followed

I go in just to see if my theory is correct...I get followed

 

I use to lock the door when I would shower or baby gate the kids in the toy room while I showered, but it seems like they ALWAYS have to go potty as soon as I jump in even if I just had them go and we ended up with wet pants. So needless to say I have to leave the door unlocked so that they can come in and go potty. Or this particular time (above) I was in the bathroom cleaning and Mason had to join me. 

 Chelsea, Ashley, Teri, Jessica and Kayla

Can I just say I have the coolest friends ever? 

Chelsea, Ashely and I were on our way home from my nieces when I was lured into Dr. Slaughters parking lot by the flashing lights. Ashley was so excited she started jumping around and screaming, it was so funny. Chelsea didn't want to go but then decided she would go if there were more people with us to build a barrier around her. Ashely and I made a few calls and viola! We had a barrier. It was so much fun and secretly I think Chelsea even had fun ;)

I love that I have friends that will drop whatever to come have fun with the rest of us. Thanks girls, it was a blast!

 Chloe rocking some pretty awesome pigtails

 The kids played games for hours on Saturday and actually got along the entire time. We had a lot of fun. We played Cooties, Operation, Angry Birds, Don't Break the Ice and Hungry, Hungry Hippos

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Chloe is dressing herself now and usually doesn't do to bad.

For all I know it was backwards day here at the Fry house and I just didn't get the memo. Maybe it was because I was too busy trying to clean up this!! (see below)

This is what happens when Chloe gets too much milk. I am so glad I still put pullups on her at night just in case. Good morning to me! While I was cleaning her up this is what came out of her mouth in one big long sentence. "I want oatmeal actually. I like oatmeal. Cows are nice. Sparkles? That's not good. " You never know what's going to come out of that girls mouth.

That night when we were putting the kids to bed Gavin said to me, "Chloe stinks. She is the grossest sister ever!"

Fireball the tarantula

 

Gavin made up a joke today:

What did the taco say to the burrito?

I've seen you BEAN-fore

Cody and I were laughing so hard. He is so smart, but it was so cheesy and so funny at the same time.

It was fire prevention week last week so he came home with something everyday. He has been wearing these all week and pretending to be a dog. He put holes in the knees of 3 pairs of pants last week. Maybe they should make boys jeans out of Kevlar!

Mason didn't have shoes on yet so Gavin gave him a piggyback ride to the van so we could take Gavin to school.

This video has been a big deal at our house too. I'm pretty sure we are 1 million of the 120 million views that it has had. 

We have a heat vent in the corner of our living room that has no duct attached to it so if you pull it off, this is what you see!! Gavin always sits in the same spot to watch a movie so sometimes I will pull the vent off and drop stuff through it like plastic eggs, pieces of candy, socks, whatever is soft and won't hurt him if it lands on his head. Sometimes I'll even get the spray bottle and spray him. It's kind of a game for me. How many times can I spray/how many things can I drop before he notices. Also he is a typical man and can't watch tv without a remote in his hand. His daddy taught him well.

Gavin gets to check out books from the school library now which is super exciting for him. Last week it was a book about colossal squid and this week its about "Sharks, Voracious Hunters of the Sea". He was so excited about it he pulled it out and started reading it and telling me about it as soon as I picked him up from school.

He's showing me the Great White Shark

He wanted me to take a picture of this picture, lol!

My toothless kid!

"What does the fox say?"

Thirty Six

Happy Birthday Cody!

He turned 36 and both of us are still in denial and having a hard time grasping the concept that we are getting that old. Our parents are suppose to be 36, not us. He is officially closer to 40 than 30 now which REALLY makes him feel old. 

To make matters worse on his birthday we were driving to dinner (we celebrated with pizza at Lucy's) and we heard a song on the radio that we both loved in high school. We were channel surfing and stopped when we heard the song. When it was over the DJ came on and said "Classic 102.5...." What?!?!?! Classic?? When did songs from high school become classics? That made both of us feel REALLY REALLY old and I quickly glanced in the mirror on the visor to see how many more wrinkles appeared on my face. Good thing our kids are keeping us young!

The kids and I bought Cody a pair of waders so he can go duck hunting with his buddies at work. He was sooooo excited.

We were all laughing so hard watching him get them on. They are made of neoprene to help keep him warm so they are like a huge pair of stretchy pants. My mother-in-law (in the background) was laughing so hard she was almost crying.

Mason wanted to try them on too

Thursday night we had a party for Cody with my family at my mom's house. My sister was pretty clever and put his gift in a bright pink bag. When he opened it the first thing he pulled out was and empty goldfish container. Karen told Cody it was in case he had some goldfish in his hand and he needed somewhere to put them. Then he pulled out the cookie container and he shook it and heard some rattling. Inside were 3 little cookies...and a $20 bill. Those two are always getting each other. Who am I kidding, we are always doing stuff like this to each other. I opened the hatch on my van the other day and there was a huge taxidermied mahi mahi fish that we have been passing around for years in it. I love my family.

FALL

You know it's fall when you week involves picking the pumpkins from the garden, raking leaves and Halloween parties!

These are the pumpkins from our garden. I'm pretty sure they would have been a lot bigger if I would have left the plant alone but the kids were still excited.

We ended up with 7 of them (one is behind Chloe). One for each of us, one for Coco the dog and one for the scarecrow by the door (according to the kids)

The kids were so excited that the leaves are falling so they can play in them. Me? Not so excited because I know it just means lots of raking, black garbage bags full of leaves and blisters on my hands.

But these faces and giggles make me temporarily like all the leaves in my yard.

It was Kayla's turn to host dinner group and she turned it into a Halloween party with lots of ghoulish food, costumes, Halloween movies and games. It was a great idea and we all had fun : )

Cody

Kayla and Corey

Steve, Katie, Scarlette and Elsie

Blake and Jessica

Life of Fry

This little girl is officially a panty wearing girl!!

I am so excited to be diaper free at our house.

Daddy got Mason a truck balloon on his date night, Mason absolutely loves balloons, candy and monster trucks right now.

The kids playing at Grandpa Butikofer's. Look in the cupboard behind the red barn.

It's Brigham and Bailee

Mason found some new glasses

Mason learned the hard way that his hand is not a ball and does not fit in the Busy Ball Bopper! Luckily it came out fairly easily.

This was my house one morning!!

Megan, Chloe, Bailee and Brigham (all 2 years old)

Madisen and Mason (3 years old)

For Spirit Day at School the kids dressed up as super heros

Gavin was Superman for the day

So Sweet! These are the moments that I LOVE being a mom!

Garet in Grandpa Butikofer's hat headed to a Luke Bryan concert

Chloe being a good mommy

Gavin thought he was invisible because he was covered in bubbles

 

I found some fun ring pops

I bottled pears for the first and probably the last time. I spent approximately 6 hours peeling, cutting, etc and got 6 quarts. Granted they were small pears, but I don't think I will be doing that again, at least not for a long time.

We found some salamanders in my parents crawl space when Cody went down there to check the ducting. Gavin and Brigham played with them for until it was time to put them back.

Gavin had to have a couple of teeth pulled because his new ones needed more room to grow. He was excited for the Tooth Fairy to come and I was excited because it's hard for him to chew his nails now!

Keylee and Chloe

After baths I sent Gavin to his room to get his pajamas on. I found him later reading about colossal squid with his little butt cheeks hanging out the bottom of the towel

We got a new-to-us table and Gavin was helping daddy put it together

I taught Brigham and Bailee how to play Hungry Hungry Hippos and they loved it. All four of them sat and played it for a lot longer than I thought they would.

Chloe got a Princess Plate about a week ago and she has yet to actually eat on it, instead she sleeps with it and packs it around every where.

 Gavin has a new trick

 "On Day 3 Heavenly Father created the land and waters, and created grass, flowers, trees, fruit and herbs. My favorite part of the creation is tornadoes trees." This was Gavin's part for the Primary Program. He wanted to say tornadoes (it was a blank line for the kids to put whatever they wanted) but he had to change it to trees. 

We were at CAL Ranch getting my dad a new leather belt for his birthday. I made all the kids go potty before we left the house and as soon as we walked in the door Gavin had to go potty again. So much for avoiding the public restrooms. I took him to the bathroom and asked Mason and Chloe if they had to go again. Typically I would just make them go to be sure, but we had just went. We found a belt and were looking at Hotwheels with Gavin when Chloe started crying. She had her hands between her legs and then it came. She had peed and I'm not talking a little, there was a ton. It filled the seat of the cart and then all dripped down through the cart and left a big yellow puddle all over the floor. SERIOUSLY!! She just went potty at home and she just told me she didn't have to go less than 10 minutes ago. Arrgh!!  I'm not going to lie, I thought about just walking away and going straight to the van but instead I went to the counter and asked for paper towels and a bag. The looks on their faces were priceless, you would think I had just handed them a ransom note and a money bag. I got the mess cleaned up, returned the items I borrowed, paid for your stuff and then let them know that I cleaned the cart off  the best I could but it was going to need to be sanitized and sorry.