The Cathcarts

Our day did not start off very good today.  I was in the bathrom doing my hair this morning while Jaxson was crawling around on the floor and playing with his toys. I set my hot flat iron down for a second on the counter and he saw the dangling cord and gave it a good yank and it went falling down on his left hand and arm.  I immediately grabbed him and held his arm under cold water for a couple minutes.  He cried just a little bit then started to splash around in the water.  He has 4 burns on his hand and arm.  I’m not too concerned about 2 of the burns, but one of them is on the top of his hand and has already blistered and popped.  The other one is on his wrist and has lost the top layer of his skin, so that one is open too.  I’m worried about an infection with him crawling around on the floors and constantly putting his hands in his mouth.  He isn’t acting any different and hasn’t favored that arm at all, so that I’m thankful for. So when it happened of course the first person I call is my mom.  She got some burn cream and supplies for dressing changes until Daddy was able to come home with some.  I know this won’t be the last of Jaxson’s ouchies, but it sure wasn’t a good way to start. We still stuck to our original plan today, which was to go up to Eldora to spend the day with my grandma and Aunt Wendy.  Our day did get better with seeing them.  I was able to get Grandma’s computer working so that she can get back to checking the blogs.  We then stopped at Grandma Pam’s for supper and to apply a dressing to Jaxson’s arm.   Here’s some pics from today and some that I wanted to post yesterday but couldn’t.

"Thanks for fixing me Grandma"

"Look Mom, I pinned Daddy"

"Mommy, you forgot to put soap in here"

Just helpin’ with the laundry

"Grandpa Steve, you’re silly"

"Leave me alone Dad, I’m trying to read my bedtime story"