My Poor Girl

We had to go to Glenwood Springs today to get my CO driver's liscense. Since Kevin now works in Glenwood and we only have one car at the moment the kids and I got up early and took Kevin to work. We came back home and I took Cheltzi straight to school. She was a little bit late, but she got there. She had a little accident on the slide. She has a scuff under her right eye. Since she has such a rotten time I took her to Family Dollar and let her pick a little surprise and a treat. We went to Glenwood and sat FOREVER waiting until it was my turn. We got done and had to run to a restroom. Dominik had spilled some milk and needs new pants anyways so I bought him some from K-mart. They fit him really wierd. But anyways, we got a snack and left the mall. Kevin hadn't had lunch so we went and got him something to eat. The kids had fallen asleep so I decided to go get gas and then just go to the park and wait for them to wake up so we could play. Cheltzi woke up and I took her out to play. Nik was alseep the entire time. We swung for quite a while then she wanted to go on the slide. She climbed up a cool little thing that was supposed to be like a rock wall. It was probably about 7 or 8 feet to the the platform. She did it once and did just great. She went down the slide and wanted to do it again. I said that was fine and I waited at the end of the slide for her. All of a sudden I hear her scream. I looked over and she was falling! I felt so bad. She didn't move until I got to her. I rolled her over and I could tell she was in pain and she had knocked the wind out of herself. I got her to settle down so she could start breathing normally and I scooped her up and took her to the car. I called my dad to see what I should check for. Cheltzi just cried and screamed the whole time so I decided to take her into the ER just to make sure. We were there for a very long time before the doctor was able to come and see us. Cheltzi had settled down, but was so sore and hurting that she just couldn't quit moving. The doctor finally came in after more than 2 hours of us waiting. GAH!!! For some reason she has a fever. The last time we took it, it was at 102. I don't know if she had a fever before she fell, but she hadn't been acting sick at all. She says her belly hurts really bad so I am watching her close tonight to see how she does. She has already woken up wimpering once. Luckily nothing is broken that the dr. could tell. I am going to keep her home from school because of her fever and I'm sure she's going to be really sore. I feel so bad for her.

Where were you?

On Sept 11, 2001 I had just gotten off of work and was laying down in my mom and dad's room relaxing before I fell asleep. My mom came home from taking my little brother to school. And we watched the second plane crash into the South Tower. It was very surreal. I remember watching the news every chance I could get. Here is a video I found from www.lds.org. It is very touching and you might need a tissue.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkWc_EKLs4E

World Suicide Prevention Day.

First Day of School

Cheltzi has started pre-k. The first day went very well. She barely gave me a kiss goodbye, though. It was a little sad, but not surprising. It didn't really hit me that she is in school until I went to pick her up and saw her on the playground with all of her classmates. She told me that someone called her a "poop head" after she called them "Sharpay". I told her that maybe she shouldn't call people other names because they may not know what she is talking about. She was also a little upset that they didn't do any writing. She is really anxious to start writing. I think it's cute. Here are some pictures of her first day.

This is Cheltzi walking to class with her friend. (They were in dance together.)

Here she is trying to get her backpack hung up.