Clovis/Fresno Farmers' Market

Toby and I went to the Clovis Farmers' Market today with a family that used to live in the apartment complex that we live in. They now live in the neighboring town of Clovis (still Fresno County) and had never gone to the Farmers' Market! 

We had a great time. Well, their son slept through it all, loud live Country music and all - but those of us who were awake had a lot of fun - and Toby got to eat Fresno State's Ice Cream for dinner. He had ice cream for breakfast and dinner today. He spread it all over his face, probably in an attempt to cool down. It was 100 degrees today. I'm just glad he's still managing to eat with a busted mouth, that I'm letting him eat as much ice cream as he wants. 

He's my cutie, and he doesn't have cooties.

Toby's lip scared one mom at the library this morning. 

She was afraid that Toby was contagious and didn't want her daughter playing anywhere near him, or touching any of the toys that he had touched. 

I didn't even bother telling her that his lip is fat because he fell, not because he has a cold sore, and she didn't bother talking to me, so that was that. She acted like I was contagious too. I decided I didn't want to talk to her, and consequently, did nothing to clear up the misunderstanding. 

So, Toby got to play with whatever toys he wanted to - once he touched them, it was like the communal toys were exclusively his for the morning we spent at the library. 

Score. 

We rented a Thomas & Friends video, but I drove off with it on the hood of the car. When I figured it out and went back for it, several cars had already run over it and it had broken into a million pieces, and I felt pretty stupid. Hope that's not contagious too. 

Ice Cream for Breakfast

So, last night, while I was at one of the knitting groups, Toby slipped in the bathroom and split his lip and gums.

Oliver called me right after it happened and one of the women from the knitting group drove me to the Urgent Care center to meet them. They were going to go to the ER first, but his bleeding stopped and we were told that the wait at the 24 hour Urgent Care place wouldn’t be as bad as the ER. 

He needed four stitches, and it took three adults to hold him down for it. His gums look worse than his lip does, but the doctor said there wasn't any thing to do about that one, other than give it time to heal on it's own which is going to take a while. 

He’s home and sleeping now, but I’m so wired on adrenaline that there’s no way I’m going to sleep anytime soon. Totally don’t care about the apple juice he spilled on my knitting earlier. All is forgiven. 

I talked to my dad on the phone tonight, he’s an oral surgeon, and he gave me lots of tips for minimizing the scaring, and taking care of him the next few weeks. That was really cool. No permanent damage is expected, but I feel so bad for him and tonight was really rough on us too. Holding him down for the stitches was the hardest thing I’ve gone through since labor, and I wasn’t even the patient!

Weekend in Santa Barbara

"Mama Bixting (Fixing) the Blinds"; a daily task

Yesterday: 

Today: 

"Bixt" ...for now.

 

One of Toby's Household Renovations

He just can't stop breaking the blinds!

He knows he's not supposed to - and he just can't seem to help himself. 

We have tried Scotch tape, white first aid tape, and duct tape... oh, and time outs, lots of time outs, but so far, none of them have worked. 

I'm going to try to get my hands on some white electrical tape and try that next - or maybe plumbers tape. 

Our living room is a fish bowl at the moment. 

Go Grizzlies

What a day! We went to Chuck E. Cheese in the morning, Leland's birthday party in the afternoon, and then, and then, Grandma "Wheeze" came over to babysit, and we went out to a ball game!