Tanner Takes A Trip To The ER

Tanner was playing on some bleachers at Gage's baseball game and fell. I wasn't watching him and the bleachers weren't right by the game. All of a sudden, Landen comes running over to tell me that Tanner fell and was bleeding. I of course thought the worst. I was thinking he could be knocked out, but I soon saw Tanner walking towards me crying. I picked him up and immediately noticed blood all over his head. I yelled at Mike telling him we needed to go to the doctor. Thankfully, Mike's parents were there and they took care of Gage and Landen.

We quickly stopped at our house and got Tanner's blanky. I figured we were going to need it. We headed to Davis Hospital's ER.

This was a picture on the way to the hospital. It seemed to have stopped bleeding, but I couldn't tell how deep the cut was. Tanner was doing great. He was kinda whimpering, but understood that the doctor was going to fix his owie.

Luckily, the ER wasn't crowded and we got right in.

This is a picture after the nurse washed the wound so we could tell how deep it was. This made it start bleeding again.

The nurse wrapped Tanner up tightly and it took me, Mike and the nurse to hold him down while the doctor gave him a shot to numb the area. After it was numb, the doctor put two big stitches in. Tanner did really well for this part.

I see some pretty awful stuff where I work from lawn mower accidents to motor vehicle accidents where kids are ejected from the vehicle. But when it comes to my own kids, I am such a baby! I hated holding Tanner down and watching him be in pain and this was nothing. Tanner was totally fine after when he got his sucker.

UPDATE: I ended up taking Tanner's stitches out a week later. Now it has been a few months and every time Tanner sees the scissors that removed his stitches he says, "You take my stitches out with these huh mom?" Also, whenever we pass Davis Hospital, Tanner says, "That's where I go to the doctor and get stitches." So cute how he remembers.

Landen Graduates From Preschool

Today Landen graduated from the Syracuse Montessori Preschool. He has gone there for the past two years and has learned so much. Landen has improved upon his writing skills and has amazingly learned to read. He loves to learn and begs to do homework. Hopefully those traits will continue. Landen has made many friends at his preschool and it has been a little difficult explaining to him that most of them will go to different kindergartens. I know he wont have any trouble making new friends because he is my social one.

Looking handsome as ever in his cowboy boots! I think they are getting too small, but Landen insists on shoving his feet into them.

Landen is proudly showing Gage his binder filled with work he has done throughout the year.

Tanner has already dived into the snacks I have brought. He made it slightly difficult to watch the program today. What can I expect from a 2 year old?

Landen is lining up for his program.

Here's Landen really getting into it!

In years past, the kids going into Kindergarten have a speaking part at the end of this program. I kept asking Landen if he had a speaking part that we needed to practice. He kept telling me no. Well here are the older kids lining up to do their parts and Landen had to be told what to say. Little stinker.

The entire class.

Mike and I are so proud of Landen and how hard he worked in preschool this year. We are so excited for him to start Kindergarten and know he will be great.

Memorial Day 2010

This year Mike and I decided it was about time to teach the kids the meaning of Memorial Day. Both of our deceased grandfathers were involved in wars and so we wanted to show the kids what special meaning this day should have to all of us.

Here is Mike's grandpa Farrell Merrill's grave located in the Roy Cemetery.

My grandpa Mario Zampedri is buried at the Ogden Cemetery. I am embarrassed to say I had a hard time finding his grave since it had been so long since I had been there. I had to call my dad to ask where it was. At the Ogden Cemetery, there were quite a few families having picnics and celebrating. It was something I had never seen before.

Afterwards, we headed over to my parents' house for a Memorial Day BBQ. My dad and uncle Brian were trying a new recipe of chicken grilling on a beer can.

We enjoyed yummy root bear floats afterwards.

The kids really enjoyed taking a trip to the different cemeteries and learning a little about Memorial Day. I am so glad Mike and did this and I think we will try and make it a yearly tradition. Maybe next year we can incorporate a few fun stories about our grandparents or talk about the wars they were involved in.

So Tired

Tanner was a little tired after getting up so early to watch the Striders Memorial Day Run. It is only 11am!

Striders Memorial Day Run 2010

Running in the Striders Memorial Day Run is becoming a little tradition for my family. Last year, Mike did the 1/2 marathon, my dad and I did the 5k and Gage did the mile. This year I had been planning on running the 5k when I hurt my knee again. Tanner was jumping on me and turned my knee funny. I felt a pull and it has been swollen ever since. Nice since I have the Ragnar Relay coming up. Anyway, my dad, my mom and my Aunt Jodi all signed up to do the 5k and Gage was set to do the kids' mile. Mike passed since he just finished doing the marathon and was taking a break from running.

Gage was super excited to wake up before 7am to go run!

Here's my dad on the 5k course making his way over the bridge.

My mom is looking good.

Here's Tom making his way down the final stretch coming in at 27:52 which he was happily surprised at.

Cyd made a great showing coming in at 32:09 which is awesome considering she didn't train for this race at all.

Gage is getting pumped up for his run that Mike will race along side him.

For the kids' mile, they run out a half a mile and back. Here's Gage making for the finish line.

Mike said Gage was getting pretty tired halfway through, but saw his crush Megan running and said he had to beat her. Mike said he really turned it up then.

They don't time the kids, but they get a medal for finishing.

Gage did awesome!

Gage's 1st Grade End Of Year Program

On Monday, Gage had his end of year program. Usually they do it with the entire school but it was canceled this year. Thankfully, Gage's teacher incorporated the end of year dance they had been practicing with some class plays they had been working on so parents could come and enjoy both.

Here is an invitation Gage made to invite us to the class play portion of the program.

This is Gage doing his dance. They had to wear white shirts and sunglasses. Unfortunately, Gage forgot to tell me about the sunglass portion. Apparently most of the kids forgot about the entire outfit so I don't think it was a very big deal. The girl to the right is named Megan. She has been Gage's crush for the past few months. Isn't she cute?

Everyone isn't quite insinc with one another, but it's still pretty cute.

We moved into Gage's classroom to enjoy the plays they had been working on. Gage is usually quite the character when performing, but he seemed a little nervous today. I couldn't hear him very well and he kept putting his fingers in his mouth. I don't know if it was because there were so many people in such a small space. I was proud of him anyway.

I made Gage take a picture with his yearbook. He loves being able to get signatures from all his friends. Gage and Landen look at the pictures and words from his friends for days.

I am so proud of Gage and how hard he has worked his 1st grade year. He is becoming such a good reader and has made a lot of friends. Gage still has dreams of being an artist when he grows up and continues to draw and color. We love you Gager!

Spring Soccer for Gage

I will blame my lack of picture taking of Gage playing soccer on Tanner. Just like Landen however, I forced myself to make an effort to take some of Gage playing the last game of the season.

I am not sure how much Gage enjoyed playing soccer. I couldn't tell if it was because Mike was his coach and he just didn't want to listen to him, or if he doesn't have fun. Some games Gage would play awesome and be really into it while other times he would stand around and watch the ball go by. We did sign him up for next year. I thought maybe we should try one more year and have Mike not be his coach and see how it goes.

Go Dragons!

Gage was excited to get a trophy. Being the coaches son has the perks of being able to see the trophies beforehand.