January 19th started with Rylie saying the "crickets" kept her up all night. We just brushed her off and said get dressed for school. Later I went back downstairs to her room and I hear the "crickets". It was water dripping from inside her closet to the carpet making a splashing sound actually. We had water coming from somewhere. The kids had been playing with the water outside a few days ago so we thought a pipe had frozen with water in it. Jacob left for work saying call a plumber. Later that morning our neighbor helped me figure out it was the fridge leaking. He got is stopped and the repair man came to fix the fridge. Then the water cleanup people came and started the dryers and dehumidifiers and tearing the floor out.
After a day of people in and out and now a torn up floor I was looking forward to getting out and going with Mason to watch the high school wrestling match. While we were watching the wrestling I was chatting with another wrestler's mom and Zach was playing behind me a ways by Mason. I didn't see what happened but someone brings me a sobbing/screaming Zach with lots of blood coming from his mouth. It was pretty crazy for a minute because Tirzah started crying when I handed her to the lady next to me while I tried to check Zach out. It was a very big cut on the side of his lip and I decided to take him in to get stitches. The nice lady who thought I was crazy in the first place to bring all those kids by myself now knew I was crazy and decided to help me. I am sure glad she did because there was lots of blood and crying.
Jacob was actually at the temple but I knew I couldn't do a crying Tirzah and screaming Zach at the hospital by myself. I had to call a friend and ask her to call the temple and get Jacob out of the session and meet us at the hospital. Of course then everyone at that session was wondering what was going on (Thursday night is usually just people from our ward so they all knew us and asked over the next couple of days what happened!)
The hospital was another story! The doctor said we could put Zach to sleep or just hold him down and do a local number. At the same time I said-put him to sleep and Jacob said-just a local. The doctor could see we needed a minute to discuss this. Jacob won and insisted he be the one to hold him down even though I knew what would happen and it did. He turns green and passes out for any medical thing. So he was laying on Zach trying not to pass out while I was glaring at him for not listening to me and Zach was screaming his lungs out while the doctor was stitching up his lip. 7 stitches later the kids are all licking popsicles and Jacob is sitting on a chair with his head in his hands trying to breath.
About 10:30 we all get home and eat cold cereal in my bedroom because our house is a wind tunnel trying to dry everything out.
It is now over a month later and the floor is getting replaced today. I am so happy to be moving my fridge and shelf back to their places and not in front of my back door!
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