Our first ambulance ride

It's still early. 

 Q and are cleaning in the kitchen after breakfast when we hear a loud "thud"

I look at Quint and he says

" that does not sound good"

I see Russell crying the silent cry...

Which is never good and holding his neck.

 He says to me between sobbs my neck hurts!

Oh my gosh...

Oh my gosh....

 I lay him down as a precaution and try to find out what happened.

He said "I dove off the stairs and landed on my head."

What!! 

I thought who does that? 

(My Russell....have to love him:)

 I examined him closer

 and saw his neck was turning 

black and blue

Oh my gosh....!

Grab phone

Call 911

Quint waited for the firemen.

They were here fast.

They looked at Russell and immediately backboarded him

"grab your stuff Mom, we are going"

The fireman said to me.

We all loaded in the ambulance.

Rhett went in a special car seat built in to the ambulance.

Russell was just quiet.

Called mom...she paged BK

the ER doc wanted a CT scan

BK agreed

After the scan and a few hours they determined just a bad bruise:)

Praise God

BK rescued us from the hospital.

It was amazing to be home.

What did I learn?

Always have a go bag...

That is how fast normal life can change....
And ideally no Mommy would ever see her baby loaded in an ambulance.

Our biker gang

Pretty fierce right?

{grin}

Behind me...

Our Rhetters....
21 months and just becoming cuter:)

Electricity

Today Quint was running around the house full speed while helping Daddy on a project and I hear him yell out

"I'm electricity!!"

He was going so fast on his mission to help BK that he was gone before I could respond, but I just thought to myself...
"there is a lot of truth to that"
{grin}

Giant fire hose water slide=fantastic

I heard about this fantastic free event, 

a giant water slide down a big hill with the water sprayed on the slide by a 

ladder truck!  

The boys are obsessed with fire trucks and water slides are amazing.

We had to check it out.

Definitely one of the coolest things we have done in a while...

and it was FREE:)

Love that.

It reminds me of the family camp we went to growing up.

Always had a giant water slide,

Always one of my favorite parts of camp.

Always hoped our boys would get to experience one:)

Still hope we will get in family camp one day too

Q and Russell LOVED it, 

Rhett was not so sure....

Daddy loved it too....

water, slides, & mud galore:)

Parking

Quint and Russell now have big boy bikes. Today Quint said "let's park our bikes next to each other" Russell agreed and they worked to park together. (it took a few tries) As I put Rhett in the car I thought ...it is hard to believe but some day they will park their cars next to each other. I believe people when they tell me it will be sooner than I realize, so today I treasure how cute it is they want to park their bikes together.

The Tag...

We knew this day was coming.  Russell has a huge blanket he loves, but mostly for the tiny tag and for a while now it has been deteriorating.  For a long time it has only been a few strings left.  Today, it finally came off.  Russell rushed over to me, with tears welling up in his eyes and held it up.  "What is wrong Russell?" then I realized, what he was holding.

"My tag fell off" he cried.

oh no....I just hugged him, and told him we would find another one.

So we are on the hunt...for a new huge blanket with the perfect tiny tag:)