The Pumpkin Incident

I was having a crappy day yesterday. I was at HyVee over lunch and I thought - I'll buy my kids some pumpkins. We can decorate them tonight and that will make me feel better. I had gotten these cool monster decorating kits from work and I knew the kids would love them. Here is the finished project: Parker's is the one with green measels, Chloe's is purple and mine is the one-eyed blue guy. Ray went to a hockey game so we decorated his for him.

Parker really had a ball. He even let me take his binky for a while. Too bad he didn't let me wipe off his face after dinner :)

Why did I title this post "The Pumpkin Incident" you may be asking yourself? Note the swollen face on my beautiful little girl.

I brought the pumpkins in and set them in the kitchen on the floor while I looked at the mail. We had gotten a book from the book of the month club and Chloe was so excited to read it. I opened it, handed it to her and she turned to hurry into the living room to read it. Enter the pumpkin.

She didn't see them sitting there, tripped on the first one and went face first into the second. Ray thought the stem went through her lip for sure. It was very scary. Lots of blood and crying. The bad cuts were only on the inside of her mouth (from a tooth) so after consulting with the nurse line, we gave her some ibuprofen, ice and lots of love. She may look really sad but she got to eat ice cream for dinner!

She wanted to see these pictures after I took them. When she saw them she got upset and said that she didn't want Hannah Montana to see her face all swollen. I am taking her to see Miley Cyrus next week but I was confused and thought it was today. Her face should be all better by the time the concert rolls around. It will be her first by the way and I have suite tickets! We're hoping Emmy and Aunt Rebecca will be able to join us!