Here she is this morning, playing golf on the Wii:
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[/caption]She was given a boot to wear for 4 weeks. So after a few days of rest, Ibuprophen, and ice off and on, she'll be walking arouns...with a big boot on her ight foot.
It was a long night. We finally got called back for exrays around 11 pm (2 hours into our wait), and then to a "room" (a bed with a curtain in a room that had 4 beds and an exam chair) around 12:30 am. We were in the room for about 1/2 hour total. We were discharged and home by 1:30 am. Once we got into the room, it went extremely fast. They've really improved the admitting process at St Joes - they just had way too many people come in last night. For over an hour there was constantly a line of people coming in the door - it was unreal!
So this bring our count of 6 confirmed broken bones with our children with the following break down -
Jessica (1)- stress fracture in her foot last year (running barefoot in Karate class),
Jonathan (2)- displaced fracture, femur (12 weeks in traction body cast) (tobogganing on Mt Baker) plus a green stick fracture in the tibia (jumping onto the couch) (same leg, 8 months after breaking femur, probably lower bone density from lack of use while in traction cast),
Rebekah (2) - Broken Humerous just above the elbow, displaced, requiring surgery to place pins (at 16 mos from falling off the couch), fractured fifth metatarsal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_metatarsal_bone) (kicking a tiny soccer ball around with Rachel)
Reuben (1)-Green stick fracture of the tibia (another child sliding and ran into him)
Here's a great skeleton listing, in case you can't remember what bones are what - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bones_of_the_human_skeleton
So that gives us an average of less than 1 broken bone per child at this point in thim! That's good, right???
Updates in general:
Jeremy is deploying to Iraq on Tuesday (we had a wonderful but short time with him - lots of pizza and bowling!)
Jason - working fulltime as a machinist, very busy with volleyball (city league), bowling (for recreation now, but trying to get a team together for the Ferndale league), assistant coaching a Bible Quizzing Team, and trying to get his Camaro running again (toasted the engine last fall just after getting the super charger to work!).
Jessica - working lots for me at Snap-EZ, Karate, Piano Lessons, Bible Study, 4H Dog Training Class, doting on Esther much of the time, almost done with her tooth implant, waiting for crown in May.
Jonathan - looking forward to lots of biking with the weather warming up, blazing trails in our woods for mountain biking, Karate, working for Snap-EZ doing snapping (and of course, homeschooling), hanging out with Esther, had oral surgery to expose impacted canine and now has a brace attached to the tooth in the room of his mouth with a chain going from the brace to the wire for his braces. Oh, and we've discovered that he's really good at golfing and bowling!
Rebekah - Art Lessons, drawing, painting, cartooning, hanging out in the great outdoors, playing with her horses (toys), putting on nail polish, Making things in general, homeschooling, recovering from a broken foot
Rachel - Loving on Esther, writing letters to friends, Karate, Piano Lessons, making things for her American Doll, playing in her play house, homeschooling and plays a mean game of bowling (both on the Wii and in real life!)
Reuben - Riding his bike, being helpful in general, playing games with everyone, homeschooling, doing math calculations whenever possible, playing cars with his brothers.
Daniel - Playing cars, riding his bike, learning to do chores this year, homeschooling - loves to read!
Dayton - plays with his brothers, but also with Elizabeth a lot, started Speech therapy this month, playing outside, racing around on his bike
Elizabeth - being cute 90% of the time, talking like there's no tomorrow, getting into trouble, drawing on walls with any form of writing utensil, drawing stick people, changing clothes, tinkering around on the piano, pleading to go shopping with Jessica or I every week, in general, being the perfect exaple of an energetic little girl! Just had her first filling done this week at the pediadontist under sedation- was not fun at all. At least they got all the work done as she won't want to do that again for a long time! She's also warming up to Esther and starting to love on her (I think she was intimidated with Esther, not knowing how to connect with her).
Esther - Just getting of having a really bad cold (juicy cough, brocheitus, nasal congestion etc) that has lasted over 4 weeks, sits up with support, shakes toys especially if they make noise, talks to us a lot, loves to smile and laugh, sleeps through the night again now that cough is better, pony tail on top is now over 3 inches long!, holds up head up without arm support when on her tummy, almost can roll over both ways, is starting up physical therapy again this week, 2 times a week, getting more evaluations in April for Occupational/Physical Therapy and Speech Therapy for the Children's Neurological Development Program in Bellingham (this is where Dayton is getting his speech therapy). Esther turned 6 months old this week too! She now weighs just over 13 1/2 pounds, slow but steady weight gain. She's down to just one precription for her Thyroid again (she was on antibiotics and an inhaler while she was sick).
Me - busy putting materials into production so we can close out our Snap-EZ Line, dreaming about landscaping (never did any when the house was finished as I was too pregnant last summer) - flower gardens, lawn, vegetable gardens and such, homeschooling the kids, caring for Esther, reading some really good christian Novels by Karen Kingsley, trying to do a Bible Study, but due to all the sick kiddos I've missed most of the meetings, Driving to our many appointments (well child check ups now, some dentist appointments, orthodontist appointments, physical therapy for Esther, Speech Therapy for Dayton as well as shopping for this crew. I'm also enjoying the use of Jeremy's Z28 Camaro - man can that car get up and boogy! I don't use it to speed, generally, but it's nice to really make us of on ramps....you know, get up to 70 mph before gettting halfway down the onramp! Bet you ddin't know I took a race driving course back in 1985!
Daryl - working as usual, recovery from the flu, trying to decide what car to buy for his commuter car (Jessica bought his Camaro) - he really wants a 69 chevelle, but running ones are usually more than he has to spend, but is also thinking about getting a Fiero or Corvette (the Fiero being more in his budget, but what car not wouldn't dream of owning a Corvette at least once in his life, know what I mean!?). He's also planning on putting an engine on his S-10 pickup so I can have a truck to haul things while doing the landscaping - he has the engine, just waiting on a clutch for the transmition. Also working on repairing my station wagon as the previous owners lowered it improperly and it ruined the suspension - parts are on they're way. He also is learning to bowl with a serious spin, and is looking forward to some time on the greens this year, if we can afford it!
Oh - and this week we'll be celebrating our 24th anniversary. We are hoping to get away to celebrate - maybe to San Francsisco and stay with my sister, Lisa, or possible some other location - you know fly in, buy the car, drive it home kind of thing! We love adentures! That how we got our Stationwagon - bought it on Ebay, flew to Spokane that afternoon, drove it home (stayed in a hotel in Ephrata and visited my brother Tom and neice, Shelley). 24 years, and 11 children later and we're still best friends! We started as friends, and that's never changed. Right now our favorite thing to do together is playing golf on our Wii - Daryl taught me how to golf way back when we were friends, we also golfed frequently when we were first married, and have tried to go golfing at least once a year when I'm no too pregnant. I'm looking forward to golfing again this summer, but for now, golfing with the Tiger Woods Wii Golf is fun for both of us - and I can even beat him, which never happens in real life! Althoug, in the summer of 2007, I beat both Daryl and his Dad on one hole! I'll never forget that as that is a huge milestone for me! LOL!
Oh - and everytime I play golf, I think of my Grandmother on my mom's side - her and grandpa were members of a country club and played golf a lot. She was so proud when Daryl taught me to golf. I can imagine her watching from heaven and smiling whenever I play golf! I just love being able to go in the great outdoors, on immaculately kept lawns, ride around in a fun little cart, and get out a few frustrations by hitting something as hard as I can! If I could, I'd probably like to go golfing once a week all summer long! Now we have the fun of golfing with our kids. Jason does quite well, Jeremy enjoys it too, and Jonathan is going to be a natural!
I'll do a blog on Jeremy's visit another time, and for now, here's a photo of Esther sleeping (with her eyes partially open as usual) on her Aunt Kim's lap yesterday - we had Daryl's family over to celebrate his dad's 80th birthday yesteday and Aunt Kim has the knack with Esther (which was a big help for me as I was grilling burgers and hotdogs for dinner!):
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