This month has been absolutely crazy. Steve was in Houston for work for 3 weeks. It's always stressful to have him gone so long. We had a week left before he came home when Jacob decided to do this
I was picking up the toys and getting the boys ready for bed. Jacob was in his room and I hear this thud followed by crying. I go in there and he's laying on the floor. He has this little kid chair next to him that has toppled over, so I ask if he fell off the chair and he says yes. I pick him up (using his arm, major guilt about that) and he cries for a minute and then stops, so I'm thinking no big deal. I lay him down on the couch, get Jeremiah's pj's on and when I come back he hasn't moved at all. Normally he can't even stay still when he's asleep, so I knew something was wrong. We ended up going to the ER to get x-rayed and ta-da his arm is very broken. With the break being so high on his arm they can't cast it, so I get to try to keep his arm still for the next month using a sling (which is too big and doesn't do much) and an ace bandage. Right, that's gonna work. 
The first week I was kind of a nervous wreck, but thank goodness I had a lot of help. My mom and Lori came up for the first few days, and Steve's sister Jen took Jeremiah to play with her kids which made it so much easier.
My mom brought this little doctor kit up with her, and the boys had so much fun playing doctor.
Jacob turned 3 a few days after the break, so when Steve got home we had a little family party. Jacob is in a Thomas the Train stage right now. Some days we pretty much have a Thomas movie playing on a loop all day. He has been looking forward to this Thomas cake for months. Most of the decorations are made out of modeling chocolate, and both of the boys have decided that they like that better than the actual cake. I don't think Jacob actually ate any of the cake he just wanted "moe chocate."
The next day we went to a cabin in the Uinta's for a family reunion with Steve's family. My camera never made it out of my purse, so I don't have any pictures. It was 3 days of playing with cousins, hiking, picnics, and roasting marshmallows.
I have been giving Jacob a sponge bath every day, but lets be honest, it never really helps much. After all that outdoors fun, he was really starting to stink so I wrapped his arm up and put him in a real bath last night. Obviously I still couldn't really wash his arm, so that part of him still kind of stinks, but the rest is oh so much better. Best of all, we managed to do it without hurting his arm.
