His birthday was on a Sunday. We usually have church at 9:00, but that happened to be the week of the Ogden Temple open house so there was no church. They were doing 3 separate broadcasts so we decided to go to the middle one (I think it was at 1:00......) so that we could take our time in the morning having a big breakfast and letting Damon open his presents and play with them for awhile and everything.
We got him a big rocking horse and he was pretty excited about it. Although I think I could have given him the dollar store truck he got and put the balloons in the living room and he would have been just as happy. Little kids are so easy to please!
(sometimes)
We had a nice lazy morning which was awesome because Damon and Mike never get to see each other in the morning these days now that we are building the house. Mike's parents had gone to the earlier session so that they could watch all the grand kids while we went. Damon was so excited to get to go play with his cousins.
We went to the open house and took our time after it got over because we figured it would take a long time to get out of the parking lot and I had to use the restroom (surprise surprise). After we finally left Mike wanted to run home and change his clothes before heading back to his parents. No big deal. I waited in the car while he ran in and changed and when he came back out he said we needed to hurry and get to his parents house because his dad had left him a voicemail saying there was a situation..... Uh-oh.
Come to find out the boys had been playing and dropped a big bowl and broke it. Damon must have tried to pick it up because he had cut his finger open pretty bad. Mike's mom thought it probably needed stitches, but she didn't have enough car seats to take all the kids and someone would have had to hold something on Damon's finger so blood wouldn't get everywhere. So they had been waiting for us while we were just taking our sweet time. I felt pretty bad!
We loaded Damon into the car and headed into the InstaCare. It just so happened that I had a big bag of Cheetos in the car and that was enough to calm him down while we drove. His face and one hand were completely covered in Cheeto dust but I could care less as long as he wasn't freaking out. We had a red washcloth wrapped around his finger so we couldn't see how bloody it was but when Mike carried him in it pressed up against Mikes white shirt and left a pretty nasty bloody spot. They got us in pretty quick but then we had to put some numbing cream on his finger and let it sit for 30 minutes. Lucky for us, they had a little DVD player, Frozen, and a sucker. When they came back to stitch it up I don't think it was hurting him anymore, but he was still a little leery to let them look at it. They put 3 stitches in and he was actually pretty good throughout the whole thing considering. When he was done he got a popsicle and was happy as could be.
We were planning on having a party for his birthday that night but were considering calling it off because we thought he would be pretty tired an ornery. As soon as we were in the car all he wanted was to go back to Grandma's to see Tanner and Max. So the party was still on. He had a great time and, aside from not using his hand for anything, you would never guess he had a rough afternoon. He was spoiled rotten and absolutely LOVED being sang to!
The stitches had to stay in for a week and it took about that long for him to decide it was okay to use his hand at all. He would just hold it off to the side or behind his back and get by by doing everything with his left hand.
Now it is how long after, and he still sticks his hand in everyone's face to show them his owie. Funny kid.
DAMON AT 2
- Loves to vacuum, especially his bedroom. We usually have to do it everyday. He drags the vacuum out of the closet and to his room and just waits very impatiently for me to come turn it on.
- Loves to play ball with daddy. He brings Mike his Hmong stool and says "Daddy seat". He makes Mike sit on the stool and nowhere else while they throw the ball back and forth.
- He will currently only watch: our wedding video, Frozen, The Lorax, Gordy, and about 10 seconds of any music video.
- Loves listening to music and dancing.
- He is starting to talk a little more even though it is still pretty hard to understand him. He gets really frustrated when I don't know what he is saying and I get really frustrated when I can't figure out what he wants. Although the way he says things is pretty darn cute, I will be glad when he can tell me what he wants and I can know what he is saying.
- He thinks everything is blue. No matter how many times I try to teach him other colors, it's all blue.
- Is very excited about the baby. He always wants to look at the ultrasound pics and says either "baby! baby!" or "KaKo" (Kyle). He usually loves babies but we will see how he feels when this one doesn't go home at the end of the day......
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