Stitches, Uncles and Gluten Free Cupcakes

Well, it's been a week of highs and lows. I prefer to get the lows over with if you don't mind.

Lows:

Picture this: Me walk/running behind my boy as he takes off down a path we've walked/run a million times before on his run bike. Us, pausing at a familiar slope in the path so Jake could have fun gliding down it over and over. Me giving him the "okay, this is the last one then we are going home!" warning, followed by Jake doing a header off his bicycle (yes he was wearing a helmet- thank goodness!) on said gravel path and ending up with six stitches - three on his forehead, and three on his chin. Over all he was a truly brave boy. Getting stitches, and worse yet freezing for those stitches, is not for the faint of heart, but while his dad had to sit down during the stitching part, and I held back the nausea, Jake lay brave and still (well, okay minus the freezing injections part) through our whole post accident walk-in clinic doctor's visit. I guess that's what a big yellow lollipop will buy you.

For the record he was equally brave and still when the stitches were taken out five days later - but again the Doc had lollipops and they talk louder than money to my boy.

I'd share the before photos but I don't want to gross anyone out, so here is the one-week-later photo.

He'll survive and only a few faint scars will remain to tell the tale of his first stitches. Of course those few scars had to be dead centre on his face, but I have mostly gotten over that. Mostly.

The incident certainly didn't stop him from going right on to do this a few days later:

I guess that's a good sign.

Moving on...

Highs:

Jake's uncle, whom we normally only see once a year because he lives kind of far away, stopped by overnight last weekend en route to a business trip. It was just our luck that said uncle happens to be the handiest man in the family and could conveniently help/do some home renos involving our crawl space in the back yard. He was basically here for about 24 hours but he accomplished much, including but not limited to making my boy very very happy. He loves himself his uncles.

Also a high, I made these:

It was nana's birthday and we were having a small surprise party for her at our place. It just so happened nearly half the people at the party (including the birthday girl) were either Gluten or wheat free, so I went to the library took out this and found this.

Just to say, and I am not tooting my own horn or anything, but they were delish. Kind of like two bite brownies but better because there are only four ingredients in them. Gluten free or not they are worth trying. And don't worry, they are meant to collapse away from the cupcake paper as soon as you take them out of the oven. My husband thought they were ruined when I first took them out looking perfect only to have them impale a few minutes later. Ha! what he didn't know his taste buds soon told him.

Final high:

You may have noticed that Jake got a buzz cut. To go with the stitches. He now looks like the guy from Prison Break - I'm just sayin'.