A day to remember: Sadie's Birthday

There are a lot of events to catch up on so I will try to break it up a bit. December 16th was Sadie's 5th birthday. The day started out as a trip to Salmon for Haylee's four month shots and running errands. As we headed away from the District Health Department, Sadie was talking to me about her party that night and asking me questions about the details. I looked up in the mirror to look at her and smile without noticing the stop sign in front of us. We collided with another vehicle and thus ended our carefully planned day. Nobody was seriously injured, Sadie got the worst of it with a bruised up eye.

I was sore from whiplash but we were really lucky. The other two girls were just scared. My car was totaled and we had to wait for 90 minutes in the laundromat before Cory could come get us and take us all home. We were very blessed and I am humbled to think what could have happened if we weren't all wearing our seat belts.

Sadie still wanted to party when we got home. So the guests arrived and we had a great time. Her friends Brooke and Jordan came with their mom, the Herbsts, Whittakers and of course the Birds were all there. She requested a Barbie cake which I was planning to do when we came home from town but because of the events of the day, I ended up with only an hour to do it in.

Sadie was pretty shaken up over the accident, I think the party helped her put it out of her mind though. Opening presents was a major highlight along with the toys, clothes and candy she got. She will always remember this birthday for good and bad I guess. But the day turned out enjoyable for us all.

Is this what it is like raising boys?

I cannot say that I know how it is to raise boys, but I think I get the gist. My girls are not really girly girls, they would rather go outside and play in the dirt than pain their nails so I shouldn't be surprised by this last few days. It all started with Lexi. She recently had her bunk bed altered because she consistently wanted to go up on her sister's bed. We resolved that by raising her bed and moving it out beside Sadie's bunk so Lexi sits in the air too. Well she woke up the other night screaming and crying because of something and tried to get out of bed to fast and fell down on the floor. She had a gash in her head and scratches on her hand but nothing too serious. I worried about a concussion but she acted okay. Then Sadie and Lexi were playing the other day and when I asked them to clean up their room, Sadie got upset and swung around with a toy in her hand which happened to whack Lexi in the eye. She had a black eye but was fine afterwards. Then Sadie was playing around and wrestling that night with Cory, she ran around the hallway and right into the refrigerator! Somehow she managed to get a rug-burn like scab on her neck from that incident. The next day while playing at grandma's house, Sadie was running in the back yard so their puppy would chase her but looked back at the puppy just as she came to the trampoline so she barreled into it. her chin received the brunt of that whack and a cut with a huge bruise around it developed on her a day later. Needless to say I learned that girls get bumps and bruises just as much as boys do I think. Until all the scabs and scrapes get healed, we refrain from public appearances! My kids look pretty beat up-but what can you do when keeping them inside the house doesn't help the battle scars from not appearing.