Broken...

On Saturday, October 15... Brevin broke is arm at his Football game against Hartland.  What a day!! Here is what happened. 

My parents were in town visiting for the weekend (SO Thankful for that)! Mike and my Dad had plans to hunt the whole weekend and I was just planning to hang out with my Mom.  Brevin had a game on Saturday and it was cold and windy so my mom decided to stay home with the twins and I went to the game.. Mike and my Dad went also for the first half and then were leaving to go hunting and I was going to finish out the game and take Brev home.  Usually we have 9am games but this game was at 4pm and I really think the kids hard a hard time with that time.  Kids were tired and there was a lot of tears during the game... Brevin was having a hard time and was teary almost the whole time plus he was in the game the whole time which I don't think help him emotionally.. he was tired. 

My Dad and Mike had left around half time.  It was towards the end of the 4th quarter - Brevin took a hand off (had the footbal) and was tackled hard! He was sobbing - the coach told him to go off the field.. I was walking towards him and I remember a parent saying that they think he got hurt.. my reaction was he didn't get hurt... he was just tired and done!  When I got to Brevin we were sitting on the side line and I was trying to calm him down - he was holding his arm and he said it hurt.  Another parent who was a nurse came and helped me calm Brevin down.. she asked him if she could help him take his glove off and pull up his sweatshirt to take a look at his arm.  This took a while to do because he was crying so hard.  Soon as we got his sweatshirt pulled up I could see right away that his arm didn't look right... the other Mom just looked at me and i knew right away that it wasn't good.. she told me to take him in.  there was a paramedic on hand at the game and someone got them to look at Brevin... when they saw his arm they ran back to the ambulance and got a splint to put his arm in and told me to take him to the hospital... Brev heard this and was hysterical again - so scared! We got him calmed down again and one of the coach's and another parent dad carried Brev to the car.  One of the mom's grabbed my keys and got my car and pulled it up.  We got Brev in and she ended up taking us to the ER.. the paramedic told the other parents not to let me drive so a mom stepped up and drove us... I tried telling her I could do it but she wasn't having any part of that.. she told me to get in the back with Brevin.. which I am so glad I did! 

When we got there.. one of the assistant coaches was already there waiting for us.. he works in the ER and he helped Brev get in.  They immediately took an X-ray and you could see the 2 breaks in his bones... then they told me that they had to re-set his arm - they needed to give him a shot to make him sleepy so they could do this.  I was scared for Brevin because I knew this wasn't going to be easy and he is scared to death of shots!! Once we got him into a room it took me and Mike... the Dr. and a nurse to hold him down to give him the shot.. he was screaming and kicking and thankfully the nurse was really quick to give him the shot in the thigh.  It took a while for the meds to start working.. they kept asking him to count to 10 and he would do it and they ask them if he needed to do it again.. after what seemed like forever.. he started getting sleepy and goofy!! He said he felt like he was floating on clouds.  When it was time to re-set his arm.. I had to leave.. the nurse assured me that Brevin had no clue what was going on and that he would even know if I was there or not... I had to leave and when I did I just lost it in the hallway.. Mike was with me and took me to the waiting room to sit. 

After about 10 minutes they were done and we went back in to be with Brev.  He was SO goofty.. kept looking out of one eye and kept repeating "What The"... he felt strange I could tell... it took quite a while for him to come out of that.. we had Nascar on TV for him.  When we were finally thinking of leaving.. he started getting sick so the nurse gave him some meds to help with that so we had to stay for anothr 1/2 hour.  When that past.. we got him in a wheel chair to head to the car and soon as we started moving.. he got sick again so we went back to the room and they gave him more meds so we had to wait for a while again. 

This whole time the assistant coach stayed with us and answered ALL our questions... that was the best!!  Finally he was doing much better and we headed for home.  We are so thankful that my parents were in town... we never had to worry about the twins!!  Brevin got a cast put on that following Monday, Oct 17 and he is doing great! He got Blue and Gold colors for Michigan so he is very happy about that and he loves having everyone sign his cast! He is such a trooper!!



In the car.. on our way to ER



Feeling the meds! Just waiting for the meds to wear off

Waiting to get his cast on

In the process of getting his cast on

The cool finger holders

All set to go... Go Blue!!

Fall Happenings.... Pictures

Ian and Alex... 2 years!!



IAN





ALEX



Here is where the twins are at at 2 years old!!



Ian - he is now just shy of 33 pounds!! He is 37 ¼ inches tall and still full and I mean FULL of energy! He Loves when I read books to him… he now points to objects when I ask him where they are. He is just starting to talk!! He says: Duck, Apple (his favorite word), shoes, all done, momma, dada, Blue, Ball, Bear, Car and my favorite… choo choo train which sounds like Chee Chee Chee… and I know there is more but this is a huge start - for the longest time he would not say any words and now he is finally starting! He does have his own language and jabbers all the time - he is very talkative… we just don’t know half the time what he is saying. He will read books to himself and will use the same expressions that I use when I read… it really is fun to watch!! He is starting to know his letters and numbers also.

Ian loves to run and loves to run away from you when you need him!! Especially at naps and bedtime… you tell him it’s nite nite time and he runs away from you crying - he still hates going to bed and will always put up a fight!

He loves to play outside and he tests us by trying to go into the neighbors yard or running down our path.. He knows this is a no no but he looks at us with a smile and sees what he can get away with! When we catch up with him and try to redirect him.. He goes limp and throws a fit.. He is strong which makes it hard to get him back where we need him. He also throws fits when we change his diaper - he will pick up any toy that is near him and throw it at us out of anger.

Ian is a very happy boy.. He smiles a lot and loves to be around other kids. He loves to imitate Brevin with whatever he does - especially when Brev plays football… Ian tries to play football to.

Ian is a crazy boy at bath time… he loves to use the side of the tub as a slide and will slide onto his butt getting everything wet and making Alex mad. He loves to lay on his back and put his head in the water - loves to throw toys out of the tub… Bath time is work!!

Ian is a picky eater - can’t believe he is bigger than his brother because he is so much more picky!! He loves carrots, apple, strawberries and raspberries, banana, oatmeal and yogurt. He likes hot dogs but isn’t a big meat eater - he loves milk so for the protein.. I let him have as much as he wants. He doesn’t like juice which is fine with me… he loves to drink water.

Alex… he is 28 pounds and 36 ¼ inches tall. He is more aware of what is going on around him and more timid. He loves to be held and would love it if I held him all day long!! He loves to go to bed - he will grab his binky and blankie and stand by him crib when it is nap or bedtime - he never puts up a fight. Alex talks more than Ian… he knows his alphabet - we have letter magnets on our fridge and after mixing them all up.. I will ask him where a certain letter is and he will find it. A few days ago Mike asked Alex where the letter “W” was.. He couldn’t find it so he took the letter M and turned it upside down and pointed to it. He also know his numbers up to 10. Just last night at work - Alex was with me and on my shirt it says “STAFF”…. Alex pointed to the letters on my shirt and said each letter out loud while pointing to them… he loves letters! He also knows his colors… when I point to a yellow object and ask him what color it is.. He will say Whoa Whoa which is Yellow.. Boo is Blue and een is green and ed is Red…. So cute!

Alex is much more layed back - if I go grocery shopping I will take Alex with me and leave Ian home with Mike.. Alex will sit nice in the cart and is so patient… he now will look for letters all over the store and start saying them - I love it!

The twins are so much fun - I love watching them learn new things everyday - it is bittersweet with how much they are growing - it is going by fast but we are loving every minute of it!!