Cat in the Hat

Trying to grab the tail!
Not very excited...
What a face?

It's Official

Cullen and Daddy have a new club. They are "Bandaid Bubbies." I am not a member. They remind me everyday.

Cullen says,"Mama you are not a girl."
I ask,"What am I?"
Cullen answers, "A Mama!"

That explains that...

FREAK ACCIDENT

Let me set the stage for you...

It was a normal evening at the Estes household. We had just finished dinner and watched a little bit of "Finding Nemo". Now it was bathtime. I gathered all of Cullen's necessary items, and we headed for the "big" bathroom (code for mommy and daddy's). Well, Brent and Aggie come in to see how things were going. Bath water is not even on yet. Aggie tries to get in the bed, and Brent wants her off. He tries to get her out of the room. Cullen and I are in the bathroom, but listening to the commotion. I guess Nomar was in the front of house listening, also. Nomar is a special dog, and his interpretation was "Oh boy, play time!" All 100 pounds of him comes running full force into the bedroom where Brent is half sitting/half lieing and trying to remove Aggie from the bed. He then jumps for the bed as Brent turns around to catch Nomar's head directly in the face. Then there was a scream. Cullen did not leave the bathroom. I went flying in the bedroom to find Brent on the floor and blood pouring from his face. All I got was Nomar.

He got it cleaned up but couldn't move his right eye. His nose kept bleeding on and off. The pain was making him sick. He laid down and took ibu's to try to help the pain. We decided that since he felt like his eye was going to fall out and that his face, nose and teeth were in pain, that we should go to the emergency room.

Emergency room visit:

Always enjoyable especially with a two year old. You know that they didn't believe the old story of the dog head butting Brent. You get those looks. Anyway, hours later he is off for a CAT Scan. He returns and hours later the results are back. It is broken. The force was so hard that it went the through the large front bone in his face and broke one of the eye socket bones. Yes, painful. He will have to visit a face doctor in a few weeks to make sure it is healing correctly. Right now pain killers. Lots and lots of pain killers...

Brent needs lots and lots of love.

Nomar needs lots and lots of prayers of protection...

BITING

I picked Cullen up from daycare yesterday only to find four incident reports. Yes, they right wrongs done during the day. Two were for crimes committed against Cullen, and the other two were crimes Cullen committed.

1st incident: 8:20 a.m. Cullen is playing with Morgan, and Morgan bites him on the arm.

2nd incident: 10:45 a.m. Cullen is playing with Morgan in the gym, and Morgan bites his arm.

3rd incident: 10:46 a.m. Cullen wants to stand on a box Tyler is standing on. Tyler will not get off, so Cullen bites his arm.

4th incident: 4:45 p.m. Cullen is playing basketball with Tyler. Tyler takes it away from Cullen. As Cullen was trying to retreive the taken item, he scratches Tyler on the cheek.

Cullen has been bit 6 times by the same child. Maybe, he should play with someone else. Now Cullen is biting, again. We went through this at the last daycare. He was bit a number times then started biting. Now, we are going through the same thing, again. What to do?

Halloween Hoopla...

Cullen woke up Halloween morning at 4:15 a.m. So, this might tell you what type of morning we were going to have. I finished his costume and got it ready for him to put on. He refused. I mean he would not have any part of it no matter what I said. He wanted to wear his blue pants in the parade. I put it in his backpack just in case he changed his mind while he was at school. Of course, he did. He wore it to the Storybook Parade. Remember, I wrote earlier that no superheros or devilish creatures were allowed. Well, some showed up to crash the Storybook Parade. Maybe, I shouldn't be such a rule follower because Cullen's partner in crime showed up as Superman. I hope he will not be scarred for life because at age two he was forced to wear a homemade Cat in the Hat costume on Halloween. Anyway, his school day activities turned out very nice. He was excited about all of the candy.

That evening I wanted Cullen to dress up so I could take pictures and then go to a few houses. Again, he was refusing. He did not want the tail or the bow. His Daddy talked him in to putting the costume on by telling him he could chase the cats in the neighborhood. If anyone could pull off a homemade Cat in the Hat costume it would be Cullen. He looked most adorable. Once he got outside ringing doorbells and saying,"Trick or Treek", it was all over. After each house, he would say,"Just one more house, please!" It ended up being fun. Cullen is all about the candy part of Halloween. (pictures to come)