Stuteley's: October 2010

Stuteley camping weekend in Port Dover

We had a chance to go camping again in Port Dover with Grandma and Grandpa. It all started off very well......until I took Logan to the park. We had only been there for a few hours, and Logan wanted to go on the swing, and they only had the adult swings, which he has been on before. As I pulled the swing bak and let him go I reinforced "hang on tightly, and don't let go", the swing came back to me and then on it's way forward Logan let go with his right hand and reached back for something?? As the swing got to the high point, as it was going forward Logan slipped right off the back and landed on his hand.....and immediately started crying.

Logan is pretty tough when it comes to falls and bumps, but this time I knew something was wrong, because he would not stop crying the whole walk back to the campers. Eventually he calmed down, but any sort of pressure applied sent him into tears again, and again. He kept holding his wrist so we knew something was not right.

When we told Logan we thought we would have to take him to the hospital to see the Doctor he looked at us and said "Right now!" Aunt Alli(Logan insisted that she come with us) and I took him to the hospital, and mid way through Daddy took over for Alli. We got to the hospital at approximately 5:30...........a long 5 hours later we finally got some x-rays taken, and there it was......a "greenstick fracture" On the x-ray it looked like a bulge in the bone, and that is exactly what it is. Because children are so flexible and growing so quickly their bones bulge sometimes when such a fall occurs. The Dr. said the pain was equivalent to an adult breaking their bone. OUCH!!!!

Logan was a trooper and adjusted very well to his cast. He picked a purple cast, and got lots of attention for the next few weeks because of this thing on his wrist. The Dr. said he could continue doing whatever he normally does, because there was that much protection from the cast. So on Sat morning, he was off riding his tricycle, running, painting etc. Stuff he usually did with his right hand....he just used his left hand for. Amazing! Nothing stopped him, not even his first monkeynastix(gymnastics) class on the Tues following. People were amazed at him.

Enjoying the campfire with Daddy and Grandpa and Grandma.

Trying to get the kite up in the air.

Check it out!

Don't you love the size difference.

The park where it all happened.

Logan moves into his big boy bed!

One day in August as I was getting ready to go to work Chris called and said "your Dad and I are going to set up Logan's new bed" I looked at his crib from where I was standing and said I didn't think the time was right, as he was getting some new teeth and hadn't been sleeping well for awhile, and he had not even once yet tried to climb out of it.....really I just wanted to cry because that meant he was growing up. I was a bit sad to see it go(the nursery set) but WOW did Logan ever LOVE his new bedroom set!

We have his first reaction on video camera. All he said when he went into his room as he turned around and looked at everything was "Uh OH!" We asked him if he wanted to sleep in his crib(we had not yet disassembled it) or his big boy bed that night and he said his big boy bed. The night went off without a hitch. The next morning we asked him if he wanted to sleep in his crib later that night. He said he wanted to sleep in his big boy bed again. We immediately disassembled the crib and packed it away. The transfer was amazing!

When we first bought the bunk bed set, I hadn't even thought of the sheets and mattresses that we would have to buy. So i said to Chris maybe we should return it, and just get a double or queen like we had originally planned. Chris said "no way, I always wanted a bunk bed when i was younger" You will notice in the pictures how happy not only Logan is but Chris too. We even found some really cool decorative trucks, and planes which Chris hung from the ceiling. Overall we really like how it turned out. Logan has a better bedroom set than we do. What a lucky boy.

AUG '10

Well it's hard to believe that summer is over. We managed to get to the cottage for the final week in Aug.

As we were packing the bags in the car to go north, Logan found his spiderman underwear, and told me he wanted to pack them. So we did. As soon as we got to the cottage I asked him if he wanted to put them on, and he said yes. So then I said " if you want to wear them you will have to take off your diaper" so he did........we have not seen a diaper since.....hooray for our boy!!! He is trained(we do still put one on at night and at nap though, although he does not like it)

Here are the only pictures I managed to get of the entire week. I guess we were spending more time in the washroom :)

Logan tries out badminton.