Eventful Saturday night

We went to the Kao’s for some swimming and BBQ tonight.  Brandon and Dave played some tennis, then headed to the pool.  Peyton kept repeating, “Water, water, water?” while pointing to the pool.  Good thing for the safety gate, otherwise I would have had a harder time restraining her from getting in on her own.  She resorted to chasing Brandon around the tennis court, and doing walking/running laps around the pool.  She actually took a header, as she stumbled, but her upper half kept going, and she bumped her head a bit (turns out this was the least concerning of the injuries for the evening; Brandon could have injured himself, as he fell on his face while attempting to get on the swing).  Brandon also got on the trike and started pedaling the pool.  Mckayla was sleeping the entire time, having had a lot of fun at a birthday party at the jumpy house place in the morning.  Finally, Dave was ready to go in the pool.  It had to be a joint effort as each of had one of the kids.  We did trade off in the pool, swapping kids.  Peyton is fearless, wanting to stick her face directly in the water.  I was trying to get Brandon to hold his breath, but that didn’t work out to well.  He learned giggling underwater isn’t too successful.  The Brown’s arrived as we were in the water. Logan didn’t want to come in.  He was content to play with Mckayla’s toys.  The water did get warmer as we adapted to it.  Both kids didn’t seem to mind, but it took us some time to get acclimated.  We were able to shower up and get into dry clothes.  As we were chatting, Dave headed into the house.  Brandon was following him (because Dave was eating chips), and Dave wanted him to stay inside.  Peyton was right behind Brandon (of course).  I heard her start to cry, and turned around to see her pinky was stuck in the door.  I yelled for Dave that her finger was in the door, and he turned around as well.  We brought her inside, and quickly, Michelle got us an ice bag.  Peyton was screaming her head off as we tried our best to ice it.  Dave tried to look at her finger, because I could swear it would be broken.  I couldn’t look at it; I did catch a glimpse, and it was bleeding a little bit, and I was afraid to see her mangled finger.  I wanted to take her to get it xray’d; initially said Dave would take her alone.  I couldn’t imagine him driving her with her screaming her head off in the back.  So I told him I’d come with him.   Fortunately, the Brown’s and Kao’s suggested leaving Brandon at the house, while we took Peyton in.  It was about 530pm or so, and no one had eaten yet.  It was faster to just take her; Brandon looked concerned, so he didn’t put up a fight when I told him  to stay while we took Peyton.  I assured him we’d come back to get him.  We headed out, and got to the urgent care clinic in about 15 minutes.  Peyton cried most of that time.  I knew the ice had to be working because my hand was numb from holding it there.  Her finger was starting to turn white, but I wasn’t sure if that was due to injury or frost bite.  She fell asleep about 5 minutes before we arrived.  She did wake up and started crying all over again once we got to the clinic.  This would hopefully help our cause to get seen sooner.  We still did wait about an hour before the doctor came in.  I’m glad I was able to go, because Peyton was able to fall asleep in my arms.  I put her on the exam table to sleep, which is how the pediatrician found her.  Actually, by the time the doctor had come in, I took my arm out, as it was going numb.  The doctor examined her, and didn’t think it was broken, but agreed to give her an xray.  One of the sildenafil order major advantages of kamagra 100 mg is that it mixes in the blood quickly and works faster and has a prolonged effect. 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Within 5 minutes, we were done with the xrays.  It is so fast these days with digital images.  Peyton was a little disturbed that she was woken up to take xrays.  She was even falling asleep in Dave’s arms while the tech was trying to position her finger and hand.  She did slump back over on me when she was done.  We were back in the exam room, and the doctor came in with the verdict – NOT broken.  At least that was her preliminary report.  She even showed us the pictures.  As far as my untrained eye could see, no fractures.  My office mate had just broken her toe last week, and she showed me her pictures.  It didn’t look like that.  So the advice was to ice and give ibuprofen.  We stopped at the pharmacy to pick up the medicine, then headed home to get Brandon.  Michelle had texted us while in the exam room to see if Brandon could have some of the freezer pop that I had made and brought over.  This was a big thing for Dave and me, because earlier in the day, Brandon was given the choice to eat half of his bake sale dessert and then the freezer pop at Auntie Michelle’s, or eat the whole dessert and nothing at Auntie Michelle’s.  We were trying to teach him delayed gratification and the consequences of making choices.  He chose the whole dessert.  We told him if he cried or made a scene when we told him he couldn’t have dessert later in the evening that he would be separated.  He was confident and said he understood.  So even though this all happened, I texted Michelle back that he was not able to eat the pop.  I offered to talk to him if he gave them problems.  Ted called us on the way back and asked us our ETA to get our burger ready (it was juicy and HOT when we arrived back at the house – it was perfect!).   I quickly asked how Brandon was doing.  He said he refused soda and dessert on his own.  I thought I hadn’t heard him correctly.  When we got back, Peyton was back to her usual “stare” face, but no tears.  Her face did seem puffier from all that crying.  While we were eating, the adults (the Chang’s had apparently arrived 10-15 minutes after we left) proceeded to tell us again that Brandon self-regulated and said no to root beer, ice cream, and the pops.  He ate his entire burger along with several strips of bacon.  They said he couldn’t self-regulate on that.  He also had some of the “fries” we brought (they were veggie fries-broccoli and carrot).  I am most happy that he remembered our agreement from earlier in the day.  Brandon and Mckayla were concerned both wanting to see her owie, and asking where Peyton was.  They are both good older siblings.  Brandon said of Ashlyn’s hair, “She has crazy hair!”  He has “crazy hair day” at school, maybe he’ll go for that look the next time he has it.  I think I remember him saying that about Coralie’s (his old classmate Veronica’s sister) hair, too.
Later, as we were driving home, I was telling him that it is so important to listen to what we say otherwise people can get hurt.  I told him the series of events which led to Daddy’s smooshing Peyton’s finger in the door.  Brandon said, “You mean it’s not MY fault?”  I told him that it was an accident, but that he needs to listen to what we say.  I told Dave about his question, and Dave’s response was, “Poor guy.”  Now Peyton keeps showing me her “owie” and picking at the skin that was pushed up.  I still don’t want to look at it, but Dave is happy to give me updates “it’s turning more purple now”.  The last time we asked Peyton to show us her owie, she held up her pointer finger.  But she still drinks from her sippy cup with her pinky finger up, like she’s ultra proper.  As she was going to sleep, I asked, “Are you alright?”  She said, “ALL-right,” with a giggle.  I think she will be just fine.