russell's shiner, natalie's cough and their new bed...

...just to list a few things that have been going on around here lately.

last monday, march 1st, russell and natalie were horseplaying (like they always do) when russell fell into the coffee table. we weren't in the room to see it, but it must have been bad by the outcome. he hit his brow bone but his whole eye swelled up and turned black and blue the following day, and here it is ten days later, and it is still there, slowly going away.

i imagined going out in public was going to be rough, but i couldn't believe how many stares we got from strangers. first a glance at him, then a double-take, as in "is that really a black eye?!", then a glare directed at me. i'm sure i was being slightly paranoid but it still made me feel like a bad mom. eventually i learned to shake it off and pretend i didn't notice the looks. russell wasn't phased by any of it. he's such a good kid.

(the rosy cheeks were from another unfortunate incident... while we were at the park, he went down the slide on his belly and "burned" his cheeks. like we needed to draw any more attention to his face! lol)

this past weekend we were lucky enough to have a bunkbed set given to us. i wasn't sure about how it would look in the room, but once we set it up, i realized it was the best decision ever. and i can't begin to tell you how happy the kids are in their new bed. natalie has the top bunk and russell has the bottom. russell was actually a little scared to go up there at first, so we were all happy with that decision. with the new bed in place all i have to do now is re-organize and re-decorate their room to make it all work again! fun, fun, fun... (pics to come)

natalie has been fighting off a cold for the last couple of days. she had a fever one night but it never came back, then the next day she was congested and started coughing. the coughing is finally going away but she somehow picked up a raspy voice along the way. it was actually pretty cute listening to her talk today :)