Life as Wii now know it...

Ever since the neighbor kids got a Wii at Christmastime, our boys have begged us day in and day out to buy them one. We kept telling them that they didn't need one -- we have a V-Smile, a Super Nintendo (from back in the day), a Playstation 2, and 3 computers in the house. We did not need anything else -- they should be thankful for all that they have. Well, after nearly 2 months of listening to them whine, we finally gave in. Nowhere within a 500 mile radius of us had any for sale, so we turned to our good friends at eBay for help and found one for the bargain price of $456.00. What in the heck is so wonderful about this thing that it had to cost that much money?!? I still don't know that answer, but it entertains my children from sun-up to sun-down, and there aren't any games that you can just sit on your butt in front of the TV, so I guess it's OK.

My children are slowly but surely teaching me how to "make a Mii", how to swing golf clubs and tennis rackets, and how to throw a screwball and a mean right hook. It's becoming quite a nice source of quality family time.

Kaiden is adjusting well to his casted leg. He crawls and scoots around like there's no tomorrow, and he's even gotten brave and climbed the stairs. It is amazing to me how resilient children are -- he breaks his leg and takes a little Tylenol w/Codeine and Motrin for a few days and then gets right back up and goes again. An adult breaks a leg and is in the hospital on a Morphine PCA for a week. Unbelievable! The biggest issue for Kaiden now is not being able to climb up the shelves of the pantry to get fruit snacks and we don't get them for him in a timely-enough fashion. He's an impatient little stink! Anyways, he's definitely on the mend, and it's looking like we're going to survive this afterall.

Baby Got A Boo-Boo...

Sunday afternoon, we were just relaxing on the couch and the kids were playing upstairs, when out of the clear blue sky, Kaiden starts screaming in pain. He was walking down the stairs and slipped on a toy that his brother didn't put away. We knew instantly that something wasn't right. You see, Kaiden broke his left leg at Eastertime last year while playing Soccer with his brothers, so we are getting to be experts in the field of childhood injuries. I took him up to the walk-in clinic, and it was like deja-vu, I swear! Same nurse, same doctor, same x-ray tech, same verdict: fractured tibia. Only this time it was the right instead of the left. We're still very cautiously answering our front door -- we're expecting a visit from CPS anytime now.

So our lives have been filled with "Mommy, my yeg hoots willy willy bad", "Daddy, I need a deent", Mommy, nunnle me", "Daddy, hold me", "Mommy, I need meditin for my yeg". Needless to say, we're exhausted -- it's like having a 25 lb newborn that can talk.

There is one plus about this situation, though. When life is going as usual, with work and school and homework and sports and so on and so on, parents tend to feel overworked and underappreciated. But being able to be home with our baby, taking care of his every need (and want...) has been such a blessing. Knowing that he doesn't want anyone but Mommy and Daddy and hearing those countless 'I yuv you's makes it all worthwhile.