Day care and blood and stitches...OH MY!

So yesterday was the day to end all days. It started with a scream and ended with a whimper.

I woke up this morning to the sounds of horror movie type screams. It turns out that the kids were just playing ...loudly....at 6:30 in the morning. Really? This early? Great thanks. Well I'm up, might as well get going with my day.

My in laws just got home from a 6 week vacation in Alaska and they were grandkids starved, so they came by this morning to get the older ones to take school shopping. So I was down to 1 and frankly it is just so much easier to get things done with one.

So I got a my kitchen cleaned and a few posts up on Ebay. I just sort of got a few things done with them gone.

Then, I had promised a friend of mine that I would help out at her daycare today so that she and her family could get away for the holiday (labor day) weekend. My in laws dropped my kids off when they were done shopping so that they could play with the other kids. My kids love coming over here.

It was a typical day at the daycare. Children as far as the eye can see and an organized series of directions. Playtime, lunchtime,nap time,playtime again ,snack time you get the idea. They have a pretty structured system and I am thankful for that.

Well at the end of the day while parents were beginning to trickle in and pick up their kids, everyone was in the playroom playing.

Then I hear it.

This shrieking scream.

I run in there to find Sunshine on her back and a plastic rocking horse on top of her. The floor is carpeted, so I just think "well it just looks like she got the wind knocked out of her, but otherwise I think she will make it."

She had a "hair pretty" in her hair that was a rubber band with a bead on it. Her hair at this point looks like a bit of a bird's nest so I take out the pretty and try to fix it.

Then I see it.

Her pretty blond hair all wet with blood in the back hidden under her wild hair.

This poor baby hit that floor pretty hard and landed smack dab on that bead in her "hair pretty".
It literally split her melon. She had a 1/2 inch slit on the back of her head that was gushing blood.

I just grabbed her , who at this point was starting to get a little white and sleepy. Not a good sign. I grabbed her, told Molly (the other girl working with me) I had to go and I would send someone to pick up the boys as soon as I could, and off to the ER we ran.

I made frantic calls in the car and thank the Lord, my Mom just happened to be in my area, so she met me at the hospital where she got briefed and sent back out to take care of the boys.

We got in and seen pretty quickly. The whole experience took about 2 hours. I think that is our personal record with Kaiser.

Sunshine came through like a total champ. She sat through 3 shots to her scalp,2 staples, 2 staple removals, then 2 stitches. The Dr. couldn't quite make up her mind of what she wanted to do with closing it up. Good thing she was numb.

By the time we got home it was dinner and bed time. Everyone has pretty much worn themselves out. Between the playing at the daycare and the adrenaline of the day, we just ate and called it a day. Everyone crawled into bed and didn't make a peep once they were down.

Yikes!! My husband gets home from Chicago tonight and I think I may need a vacation next :)

My week in pictures

So I know I didn't take nearly as many pictures as I would have liked, I did snap some pretty cute ones (Ok so most of them are of my own kids) and I thought I'd share them.

This is what my very hectic week consisted of.

Managing about 30,000 children every day.

Cooking lunches and snacks for said children.

Finding places for them all to nap

Pray that they don't realize that we are grossly out numbered by them and they could easily overtake us at any moment.

Simple formula.

I am not even joking!!!

Ok so remember the other day when I told you about the daycare that i am working at this week? Well trust me when I tell you that I am literally ankle deep in children.


Now mind you, I can barely handle my own 3 on a good day, but somehow someone thought I was qualified to do this.

I have more pictures coming, but this is just one I got on my phone. This is right before lunch we had them all sat down and watching a movie. They may look cute, but trust me when I tell you....they are not to be trusted. They sense fear and WILL attack if provoked.

WOW!!!! I'm glad I only had 3 !!!

Children children eyerywhere!!!!

So I have been sort of quiet for the past week as I have been running on full throttle. Last week I had a ton of Ebay that I had to get to. What with the listing and the shipping and all. It's a lot of work for not a huge payoff.

Then this week I am working at a daycare. It's run by a friend of mine that I used to work for, but this week she is on her Honeymoon so she asked me to help out the girl that normally does this with her. They do the daycare out of her house and between the 2 of them they have the maximum amount for kids that you are allowed by law. I don't know what that limit is, but it feels like about 30 or so. Luckily when you get this many kids in one area they mostly just play with each other and it is pretty smooth. However....one false moove and it could get really greusome really quick.

Mostly it is a lot of driving. There are about 6 or 7 kids that go to school. Unfortunatly they all go to different schools. But they all start and get out about the same time. So it's a whole lot of cordinating times and driving all panicky. Theres nothing more pitiful that pulling up to a school and finding a panicked kid who thinks you weren't going to get them.

but at moment I'm just barely keeping my head above water. I can barely handle my 3 let alone 25 others about the same age :)

I'll tell you though, I am sleeping well. I'm so tired at the end of the day I can hardly breathe :)