Tavian - the youngest cousin

The cake - Angel Food Cake Disaster No one complained but won’t be doing Angel Food Cake again.

Angel Food Cup Cakes - better than the cake

Making Cake

DuSharn’s cousins kids so… Kaius’ second cousins

DuSharn’s Cousin and DuSharn

Gramma and everyone

Kaius and Gramma (Kaius calls her Gramma but she’s really Great Gramma)

On the train

Trying to see the Macy’s Day Parade in the rain

Very little of the parade we saw

We went through a stage where Kaius would put thing up his nose - first indication was blue snot cause when you put blue playdough up your nose… that’s what it does, it turns your snot blue.  Then it was chip crumbs in the ear, easy enough to get out with tweezers.
You will not successfully pop a kernel of popcorn by inserting it so far into your ear the ER doctors can’t get it out. We ended up taking him into the ER because he had a fever and I figured the popcorn kernel had caused an ear infection.  Well, $750 dollars later and before we had health insurance we were referred to a specialist because the ER doctor couldn’t get it out. Bizarre but ok.  Took the specialist literally 45 seconds to get that thing out of his ear.

We thought of everything - a straw to suck it out, tweezers (it’s round, the popcorn kernel and we barely tried the tweezers because we realized it would just slip and shoot further back), crazy glue on the end of a cleaned off Qtip (this was an idea that didn’t get executed for obvious reasons), nasal aspirator, etc.

A funny story to tell his fiance and his kids!

My poor little almost three year old retracted his foreskin for the first time and we couldn’t get it to go back.  It was tight, partially inside out, red, swelling and bleeding.  It’s called Paraphimosis.

We had to go to the ER to get it fixed and the doctor basically tugged on it while Kaius screamed.  The other option would have been to numb it but that would have taken three needles around the penis. That would have been more of an ordeal than what we did so I kissed his face and held his arms while the doc tugged his foreskin back into place.

I’m starting to blog about these things because this isn’t the first ‘medical emergency’ he’s had.  Check out the post entitled… How NOT to pop popcorn