GDEV (Gracias Dios Este Viernes!)

We had the creamiest, cheesiest, muy delicioso enchiladas for dinner last night.  Catalina and I made them together and they were amazing!  Then we watched the draft for a hopefully not-delayed season.  This lockout thing is so stupid!  It's like you're all making millions anyway, so just adjust it a little.  Meet in the middle and give us a season!  Won't they lose a lot of money if the season is delayed anyway?  This coming from the blonde who when asked what I thought about the Super Bowl odds in Vegas replied, "They're having the super bowl in Las Vegas this year?".  Lol.  Chris got a good laugh out of that one!  Gotta love football, though!  Football in paradise is essential.  You run out of things to do, so it's something different to look forward to each week.  This week's new event will consist of Chris getting 30 + stitches out of his head.  Good times!  ;)  Luckily, the gringo surgeon is still in town and he will be taking them out today.  Then it's more draft watching tonight because the Pats have 3 picks today.  Ex-pats for Pats!  Feliz fin de semana y'all!

Good bye ugly ace bandage, hello new haircut!

Semana Santa Stitches

It was a cold, rainy day in October the last time I was with Chris getting stitched up from a surfing accident.  That time, his 30 pound, 10 foot 2 inch board bashed him in the nose and split it open to the bone.  It was a ghastly sight indeed.  That one left him with his perfect nose crooked and scarred:

He's so hot, you can't even tell!

On Saturday, Yasser (a driver for the restaurant here) came to my house and said, "Christabol problema con cabeza."  That's all I had to hear to grab clothes for the kids (They don't usually wear much around the house down here.) and run into his truck for a ride to the clinic.  Once I saw the latest damage, I thought for sure I'd have to drive him to Managua, but luckily there was a gringo surgeon in town and he and the local doctor did an amazing job:

Looks so much better stitched up, trust me!

3 arteries severed and 3 layers of 30 + stitches later = one scared wifey!  (but now relieved that he's okay!)  This cut was from the nose of his epoxy board basically going through his head!  When I got there, all I could see was a huge gaping hole and blood pouring out like a faucet.  This happened at the river mouth in Popoyo on the biggest holiday of the year in Nicaragua:  Semana Santa.  He said he had to walk past about 300 + people with so much blood pouring out of his head that he could barely see through the blood!  Then he had to drive 30 minutes to our clinic by himself!  Chris is really lucky that he didn't pass out in the water or lose an eye.  He must have had a couple of angels looking over him that day.  The only funny part about this is when I brought both boys in just so that they could see that their daddy was still alive and would be fine.  (They could only see him laying on a table.)  River proceeded to tell everyone that would listen, "Daddy's a scary monster!"  Then he would put his hands out like claws and growl!  Oh, the mind of a 2 year old!  

A river runs through it...in the middle of the night!

Yes, I've been a major blogging slacker!  Sometimes I feel like I just don't have anything new (regarding paradise) to blog about.  That being said, I have plenty of time on my hands, so I need to just figure this little problem out.  Starting today!  I have a slight dilemma that needs some advice.  This little cutie is the subject at hand:

This was his daddy's romper when he was a little boy!

And here's the problem:

This is how I found him sleeping the other morning!

River will be 3 in one month.  I thought the "major" problems would end around that time, but now he started waking up in the night (every night for the last month, that is!).  It was bad enough that he was 8 months old before he would even sleep through the night.  I'm reliving those zombie-like no-sleep feelings!!!  And it's not like he's ready to go back to sleep.  Oh no, last night it was, "Hi Mommy!" for over an hour!  Help!  Does anyone have any advice on how to keep a toddler in their own bed all night long?!  Paradise or not, this just plain sucks!  Besos!