The sky are falling and other Weekend events

Friday I took the day off and went with the boys to the Somerset County Fair. It's an old fashion fair, no rides, games or midway just mostly animals, food and some handiwork. Upon arrival we went in to the first tent to see the beef cows, Sam really wanted nothing to do with the cows he wanted to see the horses. Please mommy please lets go see the horses. So we left the cows passed by nearly everything else and went to see the horses. Well, they have them so you see the back on the stall, the front side is off limits to visitors. So, mostly we saw horse's butts. There were a few that were facing the inside but there was fencing that you could only get a finger or two through to touch them. It made petting them hard. After that Sam was happy to visit the other animals, we got to meet a cow that was only 18 days old, he was bigger then Sally but not by much. He was SO cute. We saw pigs, sheep, goats, alpaca, chickens, roosters, snakes, lizards and many more. At some point Sam said he was hungry so we got curly fries which both boys loved and an ear of corn on the cob for Isaac the four toothed corn eating fool. He loves it and can manage to get every kernel off. Then Sam saw someone with a cotton candy and wouldn't take no for an answer, so off we went to buy a cotton candy that was bigger then his head. He tried to eat it apple style, by just going at it with his mouth. It was very messy! We went through the tent with the information about 4-H and the county where Sam got to play little games to win prizes. He left with two frisbees, a couple pencils, a short ruler and a certificate for the goldfish that he won! On the way our he decided that he wanted to "work the digger" after refusing on the way in. The kids got to walk up a set of steps into the cab of a very large excavator and use the controls to make the digger go up then down. They were given cute yellow hard hats too. A big thank you to Aunt Marsha for letting me know the fair was on. It was too bad that that couldn't meet us since I know that Sam would have been very happy to see them. It's also unfortunate that it only happens during the week and Michy is in no position to take off with everything that is going on with the move at work. Poor Mich is hardly home, even working on Saturdays. I will be so glad when things settle there.

In our bedroom we had a curtain hanging over our bed. A little decorative curtain that hung near the ceiling attached to a board that was attached the ceiling. The board is about 1 inch by 4 inches and slightly wider then our king sized bed. We are sleeping, Mich, Sam, and I and it came out of the ceiling and fell on us. We awoke to Sam's blood curdling screams, he was totally inconsolable. He couldn't tell us what was wrong, he was crying and gasping for breath. It was horrible. After about 10 minutes of trying to calm him down we called my mom to come stay with Isaac so that we could take him to the emergency room. She arrived speedy quick, took her about 15 minutes to dress and drive to us. By the time she arrived he was slightly calm, He told us that his nose hurt him and asked for a bandaid. We put a bandaid and that made him more calm. He asked for a drink, took one sip, said the bandaid fixed his nose and asked to go back to bed. So we brought he upstairs and put him in bed, he asked to watch a mommy show so I put on a national geographic show about coral reefs. Fish are calming right. Meanwhile Michy had called the emergency number at the peds office. The nurse said that she'd have a doctor get back to us. By the time the doctor called back Sam was sleeping soundly. You could see the lines on the bridge of his nose where the board hit him. The doctor said that it doesn't sound like head trauma and that we could wait until the next day if his nose was broken. The next morning he woke up looking terribly swollen and bruised. I pressed on it to see how he'd react, trying to assess if it was broken. He said ouch mommy please don't touch it, it hurts but didn't make much fuss. He also said it was fine when asked. So I decided that he was okay.

Since Michy went into the city on Saturday she took the gold car. The boys and I went to Ikea to help mommy out with shopping for showroom furniture we went in the blue car. Thank goodness Grandma came because it was so crazy there. When I got home I parked the car in the road since Grandma's car was in the driveway. I never got to pull the blue car into the driveway before Mich came home so I left it on the street. We were in took much of a rush Sunday morning to put it back in the driveway.

Sunday morning we met Robin, Andrew, Jacob and Sara at the Bronx Zoo. We all had a great time! We spent the greater portion of the day looking at all the animals and using our membership to it's fullest by riding the carousel, going in the children's museum (home to Sam's favorite the donkeys) and riding the monorail. What a fun day!!

So we got home and pulled into the driveway. The blue car needed to be on the inside because it's the one that I take to work. Sue drives the blue car. We go into the backyard and fill up the kiddie pools. It was a hot day at the zoo and we are hoping that the boys will be happy to play while we try to relax a little bit. So we are happy in the yard and we hear this popping sound like fireworks. We look towards the street, the direction that we hear the noise coming from and see the wires bouncing up and down. I run through the house on to the front porch to see that a tree has fallen on our car. You can hardly see the car, the tree is blocking our half of the road. Within minutes the police were detouring people and directing traffic. Now we are hoping that either nothing happened to the car or the car is severely damaged. It took at least two hours for the emergency road crew to come to remove the tree. Turns out the car is dinged and scratched but not all that bad. The nice police officer dropped off the report and told us not to contact our insurance company that the county will pay for it. So Monday morning they came and took the rest of the tree down. It's very sad that it's gone. Maybe our garden will be happier. We still do not have phone service restored.