No Nap Pete Strikes Again!

AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

No Nap Pete, as he is affectionately referred to when he decides he doesn't need a nap during the day, has struck again for the 3rd time this week... and it hasn't been a great week for that!

Sunday, John decided he was going to learn how to climb... so he climbed up on the hearth and touched the fireplace! YIKES! I was right there, but too slow. It was almost as if it was happening in slow motion too! I practically killed myself diving for him! He screamed for an hour and we couldn't figure out where he had been burned... his right hand was red, but not too bad, or so we thought.

He finally fell asleep and when he woke up he had a pea sized blister on his palm... so we went about our day, watched the Superbowl and hung out. The next morning we had hair appointments for the boys. Pete's 100th haircut (OK not really, but it seems that way) and John's 1st haircut. By this time the blister had grown to cover his palm and looked extremely painful. We decided after we were done with the haircuts that this was worse than we thought.

We decided to skip the clinic because they would just send us somewhere else. So, to avoid the extra copay we headed to UW Hospital ER because they have a Burn Unit there. The resident doc came in and didn't think it was a big deal but wanted to double check because John is so young. So then the head doc came in and looked at it and decided he was going to call a surgeon down to evaluate it.... WHAT! Well, she was nice, but seemed a bit new at all of this, so she did something very surprising... she called a burn unit nurse down. She admitted that they knew more than her and were more experienced! WOW, we were impressed! So the nurse decided to leave it be and if it popped we would have to clean it up... YIKES AGAIN! Luckily for this nervous mom, the blister started to leak just as we were being discharged. The nurse came back in and took care of it for us.

My poor little guy had to wear a dressing on his hand until this morning. They told us to change the dressing once a day... OK, no problem, with 2 of us it should have been a piece of cake! RIGHT! I think we forgot that he is a 1 year old... everything goes in his mouth... he pulled his bandage apart constantly. I was so exhausted just trying to keep him busy all week and keep his hand out of his mouth it was insane... and I just wanted to take a nap... however No Nap Pete struck again!

Well it is now Friday... John is no longer wearing a dressing and is using his hand more. It looks awful still, but the doc said it is healing nicely. This week has caught up with me and I needed a nap today. I also needed a shower, and maybe a break too! We were out of soda and therefore I have a massive headache probably due to a lack of caffeine and I am beginning to feel some numbness and tingling creeping into my arms and legs.... perfect way to start the weekend! Pete is wild and a bit slap happy due to the lack of nap, AGAIN. John is crabby as it is bedtime, and Pete has had me running back and forth from the bathroom all day because he also decided that this was the week to amp up the potty training and start pooping on the potty! He has started to inform me every couple of hours that he has a big poop starting to come out so we have to drop everything and run to the potty! I am extremely proud of him... but secretly wish he would have waited until next week (I guess it is not a secret anymore). Well that is motherhood I guess. Nothing happens in our own time... it wouldn't be an adventure otherwise.

I hope you all have a great weekend and a Happy Valentine's Day too! Don't forget to tell someone you love them... especially your kids if you have them, they make the best Valentines!