WARNING!

At the end of this post, you're going to see a very icky picture of Claire. Please be warned - it's real, but thankfully not as serious as it looks.

Last night Justin left for Aberdeen. He has a meeting there today. Tracy and I took the kids to McDonald's for some fun play time. We had a great time.

After the kids played, it was time to come home and get Jack to bed. After he was in bed, Nathan, Claire and I played a couple games of Candyland. Shortly after that it was time for Claire to go to bed. Sleep is kind of a tricky thing with Claire. She's almost 3 and is kind of on the edge of not needing a nap anymore. If we give her a nap then she's up until 11pm. If she doesn't have a nap, she's a bit hard to live with, but usually falls asleep relatively quick at 8:30 when we put her to bed. Yesterday she went to daycare which means quite time for sure. Sometimes she doesn't sleep, but more times than not she does.

I put her to bed last night and we have the usual problems. First of all she's afraid 'the crazy Bobo's' are going to scare her. Are you familiar with them? Here is a picture.

The Bobo Brothers cause problems on Go, Diego, Go!. One of the kids was given a monkey by one of our friends and Claire has been scared of it ever since. I think we've even thrown it away, I'm not sure. It used to be in her bed with all the other stuffed animals in our house, but once she started to complain about the Bobo's in her room we took it out.

Anyway, (this is much longer than it needs to be) I put her in bed last night and she got upset. She didn't want me to leave and she was worried about the Bobo's. I went up there a couple of times to quite her down. I think it was the 3rd time I went up that I found her like this.

I KNOW! Yes, that is real blood. I just about had a freakin' heart attack. I quickly turned on the light and - holy crap! I snatched her out of bed and rushed to get my camera. There was no way in heck Justin would understand how horrible her nose bleed was if I didn't take a picture. After I took the picture (which lasted all of 5 seconds) I took her to the bathroom grabbing my cell phone on the way. I realized after I took the picture with my camera that Justin wouldn't be able to see it until today. I needed him to share my fright immediately. I took another picture with my cell phone and sent it to him.

Nathan kept saying to Claire, "Peachy - are you ok? You've got blood every where." I cleaned her up and pulled a large blood clot out of her nose. It was gross! She was a trooper through the whole thing. I was glad.

I put her back in bed and told her to keep her fingers out of her nose. Thankfully she fell asleep, but not until about 11:30 or so.

I let her sleep in today. She got up at 10. You read that right, 10. I won't put her down for a nap today and my guess is that she'll be ready for bed at 8:30.

Sigh

You've just Experienced like Kerrie Meyer style.