I need a massage....

By my husband please! Three months down...its gone by pretty fast though, and I am thankful for that, but I miss that man!

A few updates....

• Nolan had his stitches taken out last Friday. His hand looks pretty good, but I am sure that he is going to have a nice scar. He has been sick the past couple of days, diarrhea and vomiting, but acting normal. Blows my mind, hopefully he is getting over it, he does not need to miss school. He can't afford it!
• Ethan's birthday was Monday, but we are celebrating it this Saturday. He is SO ready for his party! That is all he has talked about this week, that and eating some yummy cake he says! I can not believe he is 3 already!
• Little Owen is defiantly mobile! He can get just about anywhere he wants to go just by scooting around on his tummy! Its so cute...i just wonder if he will ever crawl, he seems to be moving pretty fast this way, so he may just skip the whole crawling deal. I want to say that he is cutting teeth only because he produces enough drool in one day to form a small pond. But I don't see anything remotely close to a tooth popping through.
• Me...I'm hanging in there. I just try to stay busy, think positive, and pray that my husband and everyone else's loved ones come home safe and soon.

The chaos just does not end!!!

Well, I knew this day would come sometime or another, ya know with me having ALL boys and all....Nolan had to get 3 stitches in his hand last night.

He was outside with a friend playing catch with the football, Nolan was tyring to catch the ball, tripped over a toy lawn mower and landed on a pretty tiny sharp little rock embedded into the asphalt. I watched the whole thing happen.....I thought he was OK, until I saw blood pouring from the top of his hand. He saw that and went ballistic! It was pretty difficult to get him calmed down. Luckily I had a friend, my neighbor and my sister here to help out. I think if I was here alone I would not have known what to do. So we run it under water, and see that it is in fact a REALLY deep cut. My neighbor bandages it up and off to the ER we go. Got there at about 8:45, and didn't get out of there till 12:30 am. Nolan was VERY good when they did the stitches, I kinda thought he would have screamed his head off, but he was calm, asking the doctor all kinds of questions about the stitches. I was proud of him! The nurse was a pretty young chick, and was telling Nolan that he might have a nice scar and told him that 'chicks dig scars'! Nolan just laughed and turned all shades of red! It was funny!

Anyways, the doc excused him from school till 12pm today, but he got up about 9:45am and said that he was ready to go to school. He said his hand was a little sore, so I gave him some Motrin. (doctor didn't give any pain meds...) fed him breakfast and took him to school. I think he was excited to tell all his classmates what happened!

I am sure this will not be my last trip to the ER for stitches....but it was the first...so I had to share!

ETA: A picture!

Guilty....

Just to let everyone know...this is hard to put out there. I am so worried sick, stressed and just plain feel guilty for this happening.

There is huge possibility that Nolan is dyslexic. He has not been diagnosed yet. But while researching it, and having my husband tell me that he has been and still is showing signs of it, he has, I would say about 85-90% of the symptons of Dyslexia.

Now, why do I feel guilty about? Because last school year Paul was telling me that he thought Nolan might be dyslexic, me being a mother that wants think there is nothing wrong with her child...I just blew it off. Now, that the signs are defiently there....I have come to relizie that this may be true. I feel guilty and angry at myself for not seeing it sooner and doing something about it last year.

I had a conference with Nolans teacher on Monday, she mentioned dyslexia, BUT she said that she could not say anything else about it becasue she was not a doctor and could not diagnose him. But suggested maybe getting him tested.

In a nutshell Dyslexia is very poor reading and spelling in a bright person with nothing else wrong. That is Nolan. He has pretty decent grades, never failed in any subject, really great in all subject at school except for reading. When I was back home and we were at my families house and my uncles and friends would come up to me and tell me how bright they thought Nolan was.....he is a bright kid, but just can not grasp reading.

We have taken the next step in getting him diagnosed so hopefully he can get the help he needs.