Floors, Flies, and Football

To continue with my last post's theme, I'm going to tell you what happened next in my embarrassing life. It was about 4 days after my 'house project day' from hell, and I decided to mow our lawn. I usually mow when Trevin is down for a nap but this particular day, it wasn't working out right so he rode along. We just got a brand-spanking new Hustler mower. Like it's maybe a month old. And that baby can fly. It goes so fast and I love it. Anyways, I was given specific instructions to "Be careful and don't drive too fast." James has zero faith in my self-control when it comes to mowing. I mean, they make full throttle for a reason, right?! So I was mowing along, with Trevin on my lap, and I slowed down to drive in between the power pole and the guide-wire. I looked to make sure I cleared the guide-wire, and kept driving. Well, I didn't clear it. Next thing I know, the front end of the mower is off the ground and the wire shoots back and the front end smacks down. It freaked me out, so I stopped and hopped off for a second to regain composure and make sure Trevin was ok. I got back on and finished mowing without giving it much more thought. When I finished, I opened the door to the house and it was hot, and dark. Weird. So I went to the fridge for a drink and no light there. The power was out. PANIC. I felt so terrible for doing this to James AGAIN. (A little more back story: James had a pretty awful week himself. A pivot crashed into a tractor, another pivot broke down, his 4-wheeler died for good, he ran into his Dad's 4-wheeler, and the axle on a trailer busted. Along with a million things that needed to get done that week.) I called James, no answer, and sent him a text saying, "Please call me, it's a semi-emergency." He came home and ended up calling the power company and they all worked on it for over 2 hours. We were all happy to have to have the week over with when Sunday rolled around... But now I'm known as "pole bender" according to my father-in-law. So that happened.

So now that you think rather poorly of me, I need to make some stuff up that will impress you. I canned some salsa and tomatoes... I actually did. Our garden is over-flowing and I can hardly keep up.

For my long-time followers, you'll know that we've been in the process of re-modeling the entryway. So we got our door, but they sent the wrong window for it. We managed to get this, uh, unique, star window instead... We removed it because, "Y'all, we ain't from Texas!" Our window is on the right.

James put in the new door and we eventually got the window swapped out. Check it out. 

AND the floors are finished! We hired out, so it was very little work for us! Next will be the trim and putting in the bench/shelving unit. Finally making progress...

About a year ago, I started feeling pain in my wrist off and on. I would have it one day and then not for another couple weeks. It felt almost like a sprain, so I just kept ignoring it. The last two months or so the pain has been more constant and I've stopped using it for some things. I noticed a lump on my wrist and wondered if it was maybe scar tissue from a previous injury. I would feel pain in it when I pushed the shopping cart, opened a push door, or carried bags in my hand. And I couldn't crawl on the floor and play with Trevin. To be honest, that was the one thing that put it over the edge for me. If I am unable to get on the floor and play with him, something needs to be done.  So a couple weeks back I went in and had it checked out. They were pretty sure that it was a cyst and sent me for X-rays, just to make sure it wasn't something more serious.  Then I was sent to a specialist to talk about surgery, and it turns out that the cyst is sitting right on my tendons and that's why I'm having issues with it. I'm scheduled for surgery next week (Sept 18th.) It's a pretty basic and routine surgery so nothing too alarming. BUT I am concerned about the recovery. I'll have stitches in for a couple weeks and a splint to limit movement. This means tending to Trevin with one arm. Folks, I would have a hard enough time chasing him if I had 3 arms, but one?! Could be interesting. If you think to pray for me in that time, it would be mightily appreciated. 

Trevin Tales:

• He is officially obsessed with dipping. Fries in ketchup, meat in BBQ sauce, vegetables in ranch... (Who am I kidding, I can't get him to eat vegetables...) He has started to tip his sippy cup upside down and pour milk/juice/water onto his tray and then dip whatever he's eating. Funny, but messy. 
• While we were putting in the new door an entire colony of flies moved in. We've been battling them for days and just can't seem to put an end to them. Trevin has taken interest in the insects and he crawls onto the ottoman by the window and will watch them. He has started to catch them. He pinches them in his fingers and comes over to me with his hand out. The first couple times I couldn't tell what it was, so I took it from him. Sometimes a dead fly drops into my hand and sometimes a live one flies right out of my hand. Either way, he's pretty amazing, I mean, I can't even get those suckers with a swatter! I'm just glad that he's bringing them to me and not eating them... (that I know of...)
• Trevin has known how to flush the toilet for a while now, but he's kind of just obeyed. (Weird, right?) Well he seems to have forgot what "obey" means. One evening I was cleaning up supper and James was trying to get back out the door to finish some irrigating. We had a quick conversation about plans for the following day and James suddenly realized that Trevin was not in the room, we walked to the bathroom and saw Trevin throw his shirt in the toilet and start swirling it with his hand. Freak out moment occurred and then I noticed that the tank of the toilet was still running, meaning someone had flushed in the last minute. And of course Trevin's shorts were no where to be found... James had to fish them out and we weren't too thrilled about this accomplishment. 

• You've all seen the electronic letter boards for little kids? Each letter is on there and they light up and teach you the letter name, sound and how to spell small words. Well we have one. I crack up every time Trevin pulls it out because I'll hear this from across the room, "Welcome to Alphabet Town! Let's spell 'boat'. 'B'" "B" "O" "O" "A" "O" "T" "O" ....He likes to say "O" 

Trevin got his head stuck in the chair and wasn't too impressed that I was taking a picture instead of helping him. Call me a bad mom, I'm just documenting his every embarrassment. It will come in handy some day, I'm sure.

My sister is a senior this year, (I don't want to talk about it..) And I cheered her on at the Pep Rally! Made me miss high school a little. 

Husker football started!!!!!!!! That is all. 

We celebrated my Grandma's birthday (a couple months early) by going to the Lincoln Farmer's Market. When I think Farmer's Market, I just see carrots, turnips, and watermelon. But that's a stereotype that I have dismissed. So many vendors with all sorts of really cool things. I had a great time with my mom, sister, aunts, uncle, and grandparents. 

Here comes fall, growing on the farm...