Air Conditioners, Beds, and Elbows

In my last post, I promised an update on our A/C. Well, after the first guys came out, it was "working" but it was blowing cool, not cold, and not very hard, plus it was still leaking water into the pan in the attic. They came back out 2 days later, refilled the refrigerant, without even searching for a leak, and checked upstairs again. Their overall view was that we would have to replace the whole unit-upstairs and outside!!! Well a few days later, we got another company to come out. He found the leak outside and sealed it, refilled the refrigerant and checked in the attic. He said that it could be leaking because of the refrigerant leak, and to give it a few days. The good news is that the air is on and working and cooling the house, for the most part. The bad new is, the air is still not blowing hard, and the upstairs is leaking like crazy. We are vacuuming out the water several times a day, and shutting the system off completely at night! We are going to have the second company come back out to look again, to see if there is anything they can do, meanwhile we are going to work on getting some money back from the first guys, because they way overcharged (based on price comparisons Chuck did to other places) and they didn't fix anything. They just wanted to sell us a new unit!!!

Yesterday, Friday the 13th, we were supposed to go to my good friend Andrea's house (Royal Family), for a play date with her and her son, David, as well as her sister, Lara and her 2 boys, Ben and Will. Andrea sent me an e-mail in the morning saying she had to cancel because David fell off of her bed in the middle of the night onto their hardwood floors and bumped his head pretty good, so they just needed to rest all day. I responded with, "I just realized it is Friday the 13th, I hope its not going to be one of those days!!" And most of the day ended up being fine! I'll elaborate later! I'm making a little edit here, because after reading my post, I realized that I didn't add that David is just fine! He just needed to rest all day and didn't need more kids there getting him to run around ,etc!

We went to my grandmother's house in Athens for my Aunt Laura's 50th birthday party, and it was going fine. The kids were a little rambunctious, but they always are. We ate dinner, talked, had cake and ice cream, all the normal birthday stuff. Avery was pretty good. I got a cute pic of her and Wiz:

Evan was not so sweet with Wiz:

Because Evan was screaming and throwing fits, I picked him up to leave the room, and I did this by lifting him by his hands, which I have done numerous times before, and didn't do it very hard, even. As soon as I picked him up he started crying and holding his arm and he wouldn't let me lift it or anything. After about 30 min or so, I decided that I needed to take him to the ER, because God only knew what was hurting him. At first I thought it was his wrist, because that is where he was holding it, but he was also holding his arm close to him, and if I tried to raise it up, he screamed and cried more. Well, wouldn't you know, as soon as I signed in, he was acting fine. Playing, laughing, and raising both arms equally! I still waited and saw the Dr. just in case. He said it was most likely Nursemaid's Elbow, where I pulled his radius bone out of the joint at the elbow, and sometimes they need to be put back, or sometimes they will go back in on their own. Regardless, Evan had an injury and a trip to the ER on Friday the 13th!!!! I knew something bad would happen!