Some gems...

Some gems from this week:

1) On Tuesday, we went to piano practice, and I forgot diapers. I had wipes and everything else, but no diapers. So, of course, the incredible bulk decided to poop at the library. By this time, we had no time to stop and buy diapers before we had to be at piano. So I'm trying to think of any solution to this problem. I decided to look in the diaper and see if it's possible to remove a solid chunk of poo and put the diaper back on. (I know it's gross, but I was desperate!) No such luck...this was an ooey gooey mess, very nearly leaking out of the diaper. I decided to go and ask one of the piano teacher's neighbors for a diaper. I had seen one family with some small children. I felt quite idiotic knocking on a door to ask for a diaper, but in the end, she had some that she was going to take to the church nursery and was glad to give me a few. Phew!

2) Jeremy had read a book on nutrition and health earlier in the day. He drank a bunch of water toward bedtime and came into my room looking a little sick. He put his hand on his tummy and said, "I think I have more than 70% water in my body now!" Apparently, he had read in the book that our bodies were 70% water. heh.

3) We had a storm on Wednesday night. My dad had called to check on us, and at that point, I thought it was over, but it was really yet to come. It wasn't bad, but the power was out for about an hour because of the high winds. Right at the end of the outage, the kids were playing with flashlights in my closet, and Kaitlyn pulled on Lissy's arm to keep her from falling back in the corner. She ended up with Nurse-maid's elbow, and she just kept letting her arm dangle, crying. After much deliberation (and a chat with our doctor's nurse), I decided to go to the ER. While we waited, it seemed to get a little better. I had been trying to massage it and gently get it back into place. As they took the x-ray, they must have put it in the right position to fix it, and she was completely fine immediately after. The nurse said, "Usually, the position they put it in for the x-ray fixes it." Well, why didn't you try the position without making me pay for 2 x-rays then!?? I'm quite mad. We have a high deductible and will have to pay the whole thing out of pocket. Ugh. At least if it happens again, I'll know what to do.