Morning Entertainment

We have been making some much needed minor and not-so-minor repairs around Casa.  The screen door to the front door had definitely seen its better days as it was splitting and would no longer close.  A new one was ordered.  Armando showed up with the new door about 9:00 this morning.

The kids were out of school today.  Karen was inside helping with homework and had about half of the kids.  I was outside with the other half.  Playground duty could not have been any easier.  Everyone wanted to watch Armando install the new door.  I must admit, it was pretty interesting.  He does excellent work.  He cut and shaved and made everything fit perfectly.  He let Brayan and Adonis use the drill.  Our boys need to learn these kinds of skills and they need someone like Armando teaching them.  Brayan watched every move Armando made.

Inside the house, Karen was having an awful time keeping the kids focused on homework as they, too, wanted to watch Armando installing this new door.  Katty and Reina started fighting and Karen sent Reina outside to work on her homework.  After Karen and Nohemi finished Nohemi's math, Nohemi came out for me to listen to her read. 

I was trying to help Nohemi and keep Reina writing in her notebook and became in pretty absorbed in that.  Using the drill might have been fun, but Adonis quickly grew bored with watching and got on a bicycle, from which he was grounded.  Since I was absorbed in the homework, I did not realize Adonis was on a bicycle.  Soon several kids came running up saying Adonis was hurt.  Adonis fell off of the bicycle and the bicycle did a flip and ended up cutting a huge crescent moon-shaped gash out of Adonis's leg.  I had some toilet paper and pressed it into the gaping wound.

Karen went for the doctor and she came down to where Adonis was on the sidewalk.  Adonis was screaming, "I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die."  It was a nasty cut, but maybe not quite that bad.  I told him to relax and, amazingly enough, he began to do just that.

We carried him into the dorm and the doctor stitched his leg with 8 stitches.  Brayan and I stayed with him.  I held his hand and told him to squeeze it if he needed to.  He only squeezed once.  Brayan told Adonis about cutting his arm and getting stitches.  Adonis was brave the whole time.  Since  he was riding the bicycle when he wasn't suppose to, Karen grounded him from the bike for a while longer.  And it wasn't but 10 or 15 minutes until he was running and jumping every where again.

It does not take a whole lot to keep us entertained and occupied around here.  Thankfully, we did not have a repeat performance this afternoon.

Terri