Rough Night!

A couple weekends ago, we had our monthly Couples Fellowship dinner. Since it fell so close to Halloween, we decided to dress-up the kids like we did last year. Things were so much different this time around...which is to be expected with an almost 2-year-old, a 1 1/2-year-old, 2 one-year-olds, and a one-month old!

So, let's get to the reason for the title of this post. Eli's night started out well. He was having a great time toddling around playing with his little buddies. The drama began at dinner, when I had to take his milk cup away because he kept slamming it on his highchair making milk squirt everywhere. This did NOT go over well. He proceeded to throw the biggest crying fit, eventually making himself vomit-up some of his dinner. The worst part was that the puke came out with a huge bubble that I totally caught in my hand. What a Mom moment. Eventually, he calmed himself down and was perfectly fine.

After eating, we dressed-up all of the kids. Eli is a tiger this year and absolutely hates the hood that is a part of his costume. Taking pictures was quite crazy this time around. We didn't really get any good ones because at least one kid was always trying to escape the couch they were sitting on. Sweet baby Keira was the only one that cooperated!







The worst part of Eli's night happened right after pictures. He was walking around and ended up tripping and falling face-first onto a little plastic Handy Manny hammer. When he stood up, the blood was gushing and he was pretty hysterical. Thankfully, Mark and I got the bleeding to stop pretty quickly and eventually got Eli calmed-down as well. I'm sure this only the first of many bloody injuries to come...

Playing so innocently...




The aftermath...