An Injury and a Trip to Birmingham

Things have settled down here after a busy last couple of weeks.

Two-and-a-half weeks ago Harrison decided to help me vacuum. That was going great as you can see:

Well, after we put away the canister vac and got out the regular one, things quickly went downhill. We were using it on the rug, and Harrison pointed out some little specks of things under the couch that he wanted me to get. As I was using the attachment for that, he managed to tip the vacuum up to look under it and decided to stick his finger in. That didn't end so well.

He ripped most of the skin off of the side of his left forefinger next to the thumb. He was so sad, it just hurt so badly, and I felt horrible. We were able to go straight to the doctor, and he was so good on the way there. He didn't cry, just kind of whimpered every now and then. The doctor took one look at it and kind of cringed...not exactly what you want to see.

So, we spent the next two weeks elaborately bandaging his hand twice a day. It looked so much worse than it was because in order to protect that one finger we had to wrap all four of them together. Poor guy! He was a great sport and only pulled it off a few times.

Although it isn't completely healed, it looks so much better now than it did. Good thing these little guys heal quickly!

Harrison and I spent the last weekend of September visiting my sister and her family in Birmingham. We had a great time and got to do lots of fun things--go to the museum, the zoo and a bowling birthday party!

It was really fun to watch Harrison play with his cousins. He loved having playmates right there ready to go when he woke up in the morning. And, he couldn't believe how many cars, trucks, trains and balls there were to play with. He really wanted to see Jeffrey's fish and tried to climb up on his dresser to touch the fish several times.

Friday afternoon we took Harrison and Charlie to the museum. Here they are enjoying all of the fun things, there is so much to do there, and there is even a little aquarium area on one floor. Harrison loved seeing the fish (and couldn't quit signing fish as he saw them)!

On Saturday we had Charlie's 4th birthday party at the bowling alley. Harrison had so much fun running around the place, trying to hide in between lockers, checking out all of the balls, bowling with a ramp and watching the kids. He also really enjoyed "playing" the games in the arcade.

And the three cousins enjoyed a group hug :-)

On Monday we took Harrison and Charlie to the zoo after we picked Charlie up from school. It was a beautiful day, and both boys had a lot of fun.

We got to feed the lorekeets. Harrison was very entertained by that until he tried to pet one of them and it nipped his hand. Whoops! You can see in the second of the two bird pictures below he looks a little surprised by that...

Putting on a hat to enter the "mine shaft"

Riding the train with Aunt Susie

Our trip was a lot of fun and Harrison was great on the airplane. It was good to come back to cool weather!