Loving this weather

We are enjoying this weather so much. Since it is no nice and bright outside when we get home, we pull out the chairs, grab a beer/wine and let the kiddos play in the front till the sun goes down. Oh boy.... they LOVE it! Hudson think the world revolves around Ella and anything she does is soooooooo funny! We took a few pictures of one of our evenings outside.

Ella starting Hudson at the top of the drive way... we all know what she is about to do.

Yep, and there he goes! Hands on the steering wheel and all!

Here she comes to save him from running into the house!

He loves this little car!

And we are officially pooped! She made a bed in the play room and she looked so cozy!

Dancing babies!!

On Sunday, my Dad and Brenda came over to grill out some steaks! It was such a nice day and the kids had to be outside the entire time. Brandon put up some new speakers during the week so we had to test them out. We put on some of Ella favorite Taylor Swift (who is her BFF by the way). Brandon caught a few of the cutest pics of the kids dancing. I use to stand on my dad's feet too when we danced!!! Enjoy!! :)

Love The Bakers

update on the hand

So the hand is doing much better... but we now have to deal with the nose. Notice in the picture the redness! So the back to the hand. She went back to the doctor on Tuesday for her first treatment and didn't even cry. I asked Brandon to take her this time because the last appt (day of pain) I almost lost it. Brandon called me on the way there, and oh yes, I wore him out with the did you do this and that and take this and be sure to tell that. THANK YOU BRANDON! He was great and she was in such a good mood when she left. DR H said during the pain management days we did a great job keeping it clean and there was no sign of infection. WOOHOO! Now the plan is to still change the dressing everyday, re apply the noxzema looking stuff, but now we have to cut away the skin and CANNOT let it scab. Any other cut a scab is ok, but when it comes to burn scabs thats a no no! Thats what can cause major scarring and can actual change the form of her hand. We definitely do NOT want that. Ella has been such a super trooper during this and I am so proud of her. She is such a big girl! 

Now on to the nose. I guess she is going to take after her Mom and start early on the nose breaking issues. We don't think it is broken (I would know) but it is bruised pretty good. We have been so worried about her not falling on her hand she fell flat on her NOSE. We were at church tonight and she was running in the kids playroom and fell. She got a bloody nose and all. On our way home I notice it was getting purple and now is red. I put some pressure on it and she says it doesn't hurt. Either that kid has the pain tolerance of a giant or it  really doesnt hurt. We will address again in the AM!!! Dear Ella- please do not hurt yourself in the next 12 hours! xoxo Mommy. 

Of course I have to mention Hudson. He is such a power house. That kid LOVE to rough house! Brandon can rough house with him for hours and he just wants more and gets a kick out of it! We sure love these babies! 

Good Friday.... are you kidding me!

 Today was not a GOOD FRIDAY for the Baker house! This morning while we are all getting ready in our normal routine, Ella had an accident! Most mornings Sherry (my mother in law) cooks us scrambled eggs since Ella loves them so much. It has become a morning thing for all of us to sit at the table and eat. This morning we were running a little late and instead of having scrambled eggs I was in the mood for hard boiled! I guess it was because Ella and I had just decorated easter eggs a couple nights ago. Well I was boiling the eggs... wait let me prep this... When Sherry makes scrambled eggs in the morning, Ella ALWAYS helps. Sherry is sooooo good about keep Ella at a distance but letting her help. Ella always repeats "never touch the stove. Its very very hot." So YES she is very aware of the stove and what it can do. (I am sure you are starting to see where this is going.) So my eggs were done and I pulled the pan off the stove to the sink and turned off the stove. Ella came in behind me and saw the steam from the hot water I was pouring out. She said, "Mommy whats burning." Since her stool was right behind me she got on it and guess where she laid her hand...Yep, right on the extremely hot stove top where I had just moved the pan. OH MY WORD. She screamed so loud and of course I freaked! Right when I heard her scream I knew what had happened. I rushed her to the sink and left her hand under there for 15 minute then after I stopped freaking out made a call the DR. To my very pissed off surprise, the DR office does not take calls till 9am which was 9 minutes aways. I MEAN COME ON!!!! So we filled up a big slurpee cup and kept her hand in it. Keeping her hand in the cold walk calmed her down and kept the burn from hurting, but boy, if I took it out the screaming began again. After our 9 LOOOOONNNNNGGG minutes, I got a hold of the DR office and they said they could see her at 11am. REALLY 11am, I thought this was an emergency! BUT after talking with the wonderful Dr Hampton (love him), he reassured me that what we were doing was the right thing and it would be better to comfort her at home till we went up there. We propped her up on the couch in the most comfy position with all her bears and pillows. She had a nice big mixing bowl of water by her side with her hand just resting in it. As long as we keep her attention off her hand and the situation, she would acted like her normal super silly self. I took her up to the Dr when it was time and the car ride was miserable. I first tried to take the mixing bowl in the car with us and towels all around her in case it sloshed around. We made it around the street and back. So then I got the big slurpee cup and put her hand in that. Note: changing from one water container to another was a screaming fit. The cup worked so we sped off the to DR. As we were exiting, the ramp was backed up, so I did what any mother would do to hurry that process up.... I put on my emergency lights and drove down the side lane. Nothing was going to stop this Mommy from getting her hurt little girl to the DR.  I put her in the umbrella stroller and wheeled her in, cup and all. I wonder what the other parents were thinking when we pulled into the waiting room. A little girl, all teary eyed, hand submerged in ice water, with towels all around her. They brought us right back and then the REAL fun started. Just to get Ella to pull her hand out of the cup was a fight and then when the DR put a glob of Noxzema looking stuff on there, she lost it. I was holding back tears so hard and I just wanted to take all the pain away from her. I hated being helpless. The Noxzema looking stuff started to help a little bit but it definitely did not do the trick. Dr. Hampton said for the next couple of days the main focus was pain management then treatment. Hearing that as a Mom is not fun. He gave her liquid hydrocodine type medicene for the pain and a big container of that Noxzema stuff (its not really noxema but it looks just like it). He called it in as a rush so we could go straight to the pharmacy and pick it up. The best part of the doctor visit was as were leaving and she was still hysterical she remembered to ask Dr. Hampton for a toy snake. We always get one when we check out and she remembered!!!  By the time we got to CVS, Ella was in a better mood and the tears had stopped. Her hand is all bandaged up (see below) so everyone asked what happened. Let me tell you, people do not give good looks when they hear a little kid burned themself.  

Well today has definitley been one of my worst, but we got through it and my little girl is back to acting just like herself. Its amazing what kids can handle and its really amazing what MOM's can't! :) Ella James, I love you sooo much and hope your little hand gets better fast!