First ER Visit!!

Well after many close calls Logan finally had his first trip to the ER this morning. We went to speech class this am and as we were getting up to go to the rug Logan's chair tipped back. He fell back and hit the edge of the cabinet. I didn't think much of it at first since Logan always seems to bounce right back. As soon as I picked him up I knew we needed medical attention. (I will spare you the gory details.) The teacher shoved some Kleenex on it as I tried to fumble for me keys and head out the door. I was trying to figure out how to apply pressure on it, have him in the car seat and drive. Thankfully, there was a towel in my car so I created a turban like contraption and drove the 2 blocks to the hospital.
We got back to the room pretty quickly but Logan gets bored easily. After they assessed him and put on the numbing gel we had to wait. After 4 trips to the potty (more on potty training later) and 3 laps around the hospital they were ready to proceed. I was feeling so bad for the little guy but he did so well. He only let out a little whimper as they put the staples in. About 2 hours later we were on our way home. I think I need to invest in AFLAC for this one.

Showing off his cool bracelet.

You can see where the wound is here (without being gory)

This is how they kept the numbing gel on. They called him Ninja Logan.

Swimming Lessons

Alex had swimming lessons the last 2 weeks and he is quite the little fish. He is able to do all the floats by himself and can even do the front and back stroke. He came a long way from the kid that hated going underwater. Good work bugs!!

Treading water

Front float

Back float
All the way under

Harvest Time

I love having a garden. In fact I love it so much that every year we have a jungle in our garden space.

Because of the depth of our garden it is hard to spot ripe veggies. I ventured into the jungle to get a tomato out for BLT's for dinner. I came out with quite the haul. 36 grape tomatoes and 2 celebrities. Alex came in yesterday with a gigantic beef steak that I had missed.The tomatoes were divine! Thanks to all of our nice neighbors who have shared their bounty with us as well. We just have to pray that our yummy zucchini will come on soon.

A slump!!

I have decided I am in a life slump, more of a rut that I can't seem to get out of. Life has been a lot of fun but for some reason I just can't get the umph I need to go forward. I have so much to blog about but I can't quite get myself to do it. There are a ton of goals, ideas, plans and dreams in my head and yet I can't reach to them to proceed forward. So my friends I reach out to you, how do you push yourself to move? I want to be better, I need to be better and yet I just can't. Hmmmmm I will spend the weekend pondering this while we go off to play. And I promise sometime really soon you will get to see how the Ras fam does summer. Stay tuned!!!

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