Monday, August 16, 2010

Gross Pictures: Beware

When you come home from a date with your spouse, this is the last thing you want to see.Eric and I doubled with another couple Friday night. We went to dinner then headed downtown for some ice-cream and fudge. We were sitting on a bench enjoying our ice-cream when Lourie called me. Her oldest daughter was baby sitting for us and apparently she had been trying to call us (a loopy number two was confused for a backwards six in the moment of panic) so she was not able to get a hold of us to tell us that Lucas had a bad bloody nose. Lourie said Kristen was freaking out a bit. And we, knowing Lucas, figured he was too. We cut the date short and hurried home.

Lucas was sitting on the couch, no longer bleeding, watching How It's Made. Lucas had been in bed when Kristen heard him sniffing a lot. She went up to his room to find blood pouring from his nose. She got him into the bathroom and tried to help stop the bleeding. The blood kept dripping into his mouth so he was constantly trying to spit it out making it just splatter all over the place. Kristen said Lucas was actually pretty calm but looked like he was going to cry at one point. She asked him not to cry as she was barely not losing it herself. And he did, he remained calm! He even put Alex back to bed after the bleeding stopped as she had come out during the commotion and was scared.

So all was well and we are proud of both Lucas and Kristen for how they handled it. How calm Lucas stayed truly was a tender mercy. The magnitude of this tender mercy was made very apparent with the amount he freaked out at 1:00 AM when it stared majorly bleeding again.

And here is a cute picture to help counter the gross images above. On Saturday Ryder turned three months old.

18 comments:

  1. Poor guy, and baby sitter!

    I am so thankful my kids don't get bloody noses like that.

    Ryder is such a cutie pie!

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  2. Blood usually doesn't scare me. Except for the one time that Ryan has his tonsils out and it didn't go well. He started bleeding and coughing up blood. The bathroom looked like someone got murdered in it.

    And Ryder is totally stinking adorable.

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  3. My 19 year old son's nose bleeds all the time, even after two surgeries to stop it. I have seen worse than your photos!
    Sorry your son had to go through that though.

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  4. I am so impressed with the two of them for remaining calm. They did good. Sorry he got another one though. :(

    Ryder has really grown! Your hard work is paying off for sure.

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  5. So glad you got to get out for a while! Too bad the poor guy had to go through that though! No fun. Glad they all handled it well without Mommy and Daddy around.

    Ryder has changed SOOOOOOO much from last month! Wow! Amazing! You are doing a great job beefing him up! LOL

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  6. Poor Lucas and Kristen! I am glad to hear how calm he stayed. At least you guys knew better how to handle it in the night, but how awful! Do you know why he had those?

    And Ryder . . . lets just say: one of THE CUTEST pics of him! Love it. I can't believe he is three months!

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  7. Oh, no! Poor guy. Bloody noses are not fun.

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  8. Poor little guy! Hope he is doing better today!

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  9. Wow! Life is sometimes just moving from crisis to crisis...Hmmm... Ryder is changing! FUNO! Can't wait to see you guys.

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  10. It sounds like your babysitter handled it pretty well. I was afraid when I saw the pics that someone got hurt, thank goodness it was only a bloody nose!

    Ooooh, look at Ryder...seriously adorable! Love the little baby reflex!

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  11. That's one bad bloody nose, sorry about a date cut short.

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  12. Sean gets horrible bloody noses!!! Your cute babysitter, poor thing:-(

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  13. My son is plagued with them. As a senior, he had to leave a concert with a bloody nose and he had so much blood in the school bathroom that they thought there had been a murder. I'm not kidding.

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  14. Wow and ditto on all of the comments. Hope Lucas' nose bleed is over for a while. Any idea what caused it?

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  15. Yuck! I bet that did scare her. And now we know to write our phone numbers very clearly or type them!!!

    And Ryder ... so so cute! 3 months already ... hard to believe!

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  16. Ok, Ryder made all the icky thoughts go away! Happy 3 months! What are his recent stats? It looks like he's getting a little belly!?
    Poor Lucas! Ashton gets bloody noses like that. Usually in the middle of the night! He freaks out! It makes him sick when the blood gets in his mouth. So not fun at 3am!

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  17. That look on Ryder's face makes me smile out loud. He is so yummy! And I think I hate seeing my little ones with any sort of hurt. I cannot imagine what the babysitter was going through!

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  18. Kristen and Lucas were both very brave in the situation. My sister used to get horrible bloody noses when we were kids. Ryder is so cute!

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