Thade was running across the hardwood floor yesterday, and I heard him say ouch. He ran over to me and had me kiss his big toe, and I thought all was well. At bath time, he was still complaining that his foot hurt, he lifted up the hurt toe, and on the very bottom of his left foot was a splinter, and it was in deep.

After he was finished in the bath, I sat him up on the toilet, grabbed my tweezers, and tried my hardest to get the splinter out. He screamed, he cried, he demanded Daddy, and his blanket, and that splinter would not budge. I knew what had to be done, I ran downstairs and found a brand new needle out of my sewing kit to extract the splinter. By that time Thade was very upset. I knew he was going to be scared of the needle. I remained determined and told him how exciting it was to get the splinter out. I showed him step by step what I was doing, and he calmed down. About 30 seconds later the splinter was out, and he was feeling better with a cool NASCAR Band-Aid on his foot.

Today my hubby is home, and we are going to start painting the dining room. My plan is to have it finished by Thanksgiving. That includes painting the woodwork, and making/ hanging curtains for all of the windows.

We are also taking the boys to a pumpkin patch to get our Halloween pumpkins. Thade is so excited about getting to go. My hubby and I are excited too, it is our first trip to the pumpkin patch as well. I hope that this becomes our  family tradition, and that the boys have a great time too 😉