Reptilian Birthday

Kacen turned 5!

For months and months he has been asking for a REAL Lizard for his birthday.

So while I went and got stitches in Jesse's head, Paul went with Kacen to get a Real Lizard.
They ended up getting a bearded dragon.So when I went to the store to get a pinata and cupcakes I was happily surprised to find a T-Rex Pinata, which of course dinosaurs are just big lizards. And cupcakes with dinosaur rings on them! The kids had a blast hitting the Pinata, pretty sure our friend Archer was the one that broke it open, he has an awesome arm on him!

I went to turn on the camera while we were singing Happy Birthday
and by the time that it was ready (we weren't even halfway through the song)
Kacen had the candles all ready blown out.
Happy Birthday to one Happy Frosting covered boy!

Jesse's first... stitches!

Not exactly how we had planned to start out Kacen's fifth birthday. We stayed out late and so we woke up later than usual, I started chores and gave the kids baths so that we wouldn't have to do that at the end of the day and we could just do fun birthday things. So the boys were done bathing, Jesse was dressed(his pants were a little long), I had gotten Abbi in the tub and Jesse had decided to follow Paul down the stairs and tripped over his pants, down the stairs and in to the shoe shelf at the bottom.

Paul reacted well, picked Jesse up took him to the bathroom and applied pressure to the wound. Taped it up and then headed to instacare, glad to have an alternative to the ER on a Saturday afternoon. they warned me first thing after seeing the Dr. that they do not use sedation and I might have to go to the ER if he couldn't hold still. It was not a pretty wound, the doctor thought that he might need to do two layers of stitches and was playing inside of Jesse's head before stitching it and pointing out that he could see bone in there and tissue that might need to be sewn. Thankfully Jesse only needed one layer of stitches, though there are many stitches on the top layer.
Thank goodness that with the male nurse holding Jesse's head in place and me holding his hands and talking to him helping to stay calm, he was perfectly still (almost) the whole time.
He wiggled once or twice when the dr had thread hanging over in top Jesse's face while he was looping it in knots and tying it. Or when he was stitching it and accidentally caught a strand of Jesse's hair in the stitch than Jesse would whine and wiggle just a little. But a slight adjustment from the nurse and reassurance from mom, he was fine once again.
Hitting Pinatas and playing with friends at Kacen's birthday he was one super happy kid. Not even phased by the owie on his head!

breaking from the past

I was talking with someone and the topics of upbringings and childhood came up

Does not having parents guidance and input as a teenager and a crappy childhood give people an excuse to make bad choices as adults. Am I not the norm in thinking that the past is the past and we have to own up to what we do now no matter what has happened to us before? Just wondering others opinions on this..