Not My Son!

I know you'll have a hard time believing this but my darling son has broken my nose! Now I can laugh a little about it, I wish that I could figure out how to scan and upload the xray but it's too large for our home printer/fax/copier. It happened over the weekend when we were in DC. I was playing with the kids and we were having a good tickle fight. It was Olivia's turn so Peter and I were both tickling Olivia, he sat on my lap and Olivia was laying in front of us. Peter tickled Olivia and she laughed and then Peter leaned back and the back of his head smacked me right on the nose. I heard a loud crack and felt an intense amount of pain. Peter's head hurt but it he pretty much shook it off and kept playing. I knew I was out for the count. My nose hurt quite a bit and it bled a little but there wasn't a ton of blood. Mike came upstairs and I told him about it. My "army strong" had absolutely no sympathy! He said he'd drop me off at an ER somewhere in DC and I could just text him when I was ready to be picked up. NO WAY! I didn't want to spend our vacation time waiting in an ER somewhere. My nose continued to throb but I knew there wasn't anything they would do to it anyway. I broke my nose in highschool and I knew there wasn't much they would be able to do at the ER anyway. I continued to complain about my nose for several days, it even hurt to put my glasses on. We were at the doctor on Wednesday for an appointment for Olivia (but that's another story) and they were going to do a chest x-ray for Olivia. I told the doctor about my nose, she agreed that it was probably broken but there wasn't much they could do about it. She insisted that we take an x-ray since they were already doing the chest x-ray for Olivia, we couldn't pass up this opportunity for the ultimate mom guilt trip later on. The xray shows that it's broken but it's not deviated right and I'm not having difficulty breathing. As long as I am careful not to knock it over the next few weeks I should be good. It does still hurt though, pretty badly! At least I have this little face around to cheer me up!

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New Friends

When we were in Washington DC we were able to meet some new friends. I've followed their blog for quite some time and it was such a pleasure to finally meet them! It is always such a special experience to be able to spend time with other families affected by Sanfilippo syndrome. There's so much mutual understanding and acceptance. We met up for dinner and a walk while we were in DC. Unfortunately the pictures didn't turn out very well. I think that the camera was still on a landscape setting or something from earlier in the day. These are the first pictures that we took with our fancy camera that haven't been great but maybe we'll have better luck next time. Waverly is 7 and Oliver is 3, both of them have Sanfilippo syndrome (type A), you can learn more about them on their family blog: Exploring Holland

Washington DC

Over the Columbus Day weekend we took a last minute trip up to Washington DC. It was a quick trip, we left after Mike got home from work on Thursday evening and arrived early Friday morning. On Friday we hit the town via the Metro. Peter and Olivia loved riding the metro and I couldn't believe that it was Mike's first time on the metro! The weather was beautiful during our trip and we couldn't have asked for a better weekend to enjoy in our nation's capital. A girlfriend of mine had loaned me a Washington DC guidebook which turned out to be very helpful. We headed to the National Cathedral and had a picnic lunch then we walked down Embassy row. On Saturday we headed over to the National Zoo. The zoo doesn't have a ton of animals but it's a beautiful zoo and you can't beat the price (free). The kids were exhausted but Mike and I decided to make a quick drive through Georgetown before calling it a day. We ended up having to cut our trip a little short because the kids were not feeling well but we had a great time and it was a beautiful weekend.