Latest Injuries

We have had the normal scuffs and falls, but it seems lately we are just getting beat up!
Saturday last week everyone was spread throughout the yard and I hear Christian start to cry and pretty soon his cry is hysterical. I run out to see and there are wasps chasing him. So I figure he has been stung, but the wasps are following us into the garage and C is still screaming! So I run into the house, slam the door to keep any more wasps out and grab the ice to put on his stings. Christian is still screaming and I start counting the stings 5..6...7.. HOLY COW!!! I try to tell him the ice is going to make it feel better, but he is still hysterical. As I am looking for more bites I catch a glimps of a wasp butt. The dang thing had been up his shorts and into his diaper continuing to sting him the WHOLE TIME!!

I ripped off his clothes and diaper and beat the thing to death. 11 stings in total!! From his foot all the way up into his diaper.I felt awful. :( Luckily he wasn't allergic and not too bad of swelling. Gave him some Tylenol and went out to make sure no one else would get stung.

Mike was out near their nest swatting away with a tennis racket hitting them left and right. It was a nest I had already used a whole can of wasp spray to get rid of. The wasps had burrowed out a hole under a rock walk way and it is impossible to get to their nest.

So Mike goes out the next morning while we are all asleep and tackles it again, but comes back injured. He put a hooded sweatshirt on, but they flew inside his hood and stung him under it. These wasps are nasty things!

Mike and Tristan all swollen


So after we get home from church we suit him up and got him all protected to head out again. Killed probably a hundred with the tennis racket again.


We ended up buying one of those wasp nest catcher thingies from Home Depot and we haven't had anymore attacks since. 34 wasps dead and counting...

Later that week Brigham fell in the creek while playing with the neighbor's grandkids and split his chin open. He really didn't want to get stitches so I butterflied it and put Dermabond on it. It is healing without infection, but I should have gotten him stitched up. It will be a big scar. Dang it!

He wanted me to take a picture so he could see what it looked like.