father's day 2011

miller's hand :(

on june 9th, matthew and i had plans to see the music man here in town.

tickets bought, dressed and ready, babysitter booked, making dinner.

that last one is what went wrong. miller likes to see what i'm cooking. every night.

he sits on the counter while i make dinner. if he doesn't get to watch, he literally wedges

himself between me and the stove. i'm never further than 6 inches away.

after dinner was cooked, and the burners OFF, i turned to put the pot in the sink.

2-3 seconds, i turn back around and watch (in what seemed like slow motion) miller

lean over and put his left hand on the burner, it was off, but still hot, since it's electric.

i lurch toward him saying "no, baby!" AS he was leaning, before he did it, but i am

not mrs. incredible- i was too slow. he burned his left palm and began screaming.

i grabbed him and put it under the faucet. it blistered right away,

and one corner and side came off in the stream of water. so, i pulled it.

don't know why, but found out later it was a good thing to do- guess my survival instincts

took over. a complete layer of skin on his entire left palm was in my sink.

i called for matthew and told him "i'll run him over to urgent care,

and i'll be back in time for the show."

not exactly. we got to urgent care, and the dr said, "you must take him to the burn hospital-

they will know how to keep him from losing his mobility in his hand."

i read NieNieDialogues, and just the mention of the burn center scared me.

they called the maricopa county burn center and told them we were coming.

i called my mommy. she met us there. i was a mess.

mumbling to myself what a bad mommy i am.

whispering apologies in miller's ear over and over again.

the staff reassured me that this happens more often than i think. it doesn't really help.

they also say it doesn't look "that bad"- he's medicated (loopy baby), it's cleaned (with screaming) medicated ointment (with crying) bandaged (whimpering cries now)

and then soothed (with a messy popsicle). my mind was elsewhere, but i grabbed

these two pictures right near the end of the ordeal.......

the great news is that the wound completely healed in 3 weeks flat- which put us within the

safety zone for not having any scarring!! woohoo!!! so thankful it all worked out so well.

later that week, matthew and i went on an anniversary date, which included

dinner at our rehearsal dinner restaurant, a visit to the church we got married at,

and a walk through our old apartment complex- that's us in front of our

apartment door- we look goofy 'cause we're trying to snap it quick before the people

come out to see what's going on......we stayed at the royal palms over night,

and were glad that nana and grandma could take care of the boys for us.

last day of grade 1