Baby Ellie 2 weeks

eleanor grace

Eleanor Grace joined the family in January.  She is a sweet big girl—weighing in at 9 lbs 6 oz at birth.  She is a joy and much loved by her big brother and sister. Here’s some photos for all of you but particularly for auntie Sarah.  :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Christmas Morning 2011 Video

Rough edits of our Christmas morning 2011, coming down the stairs and opening gifts from Grandmas and Grandpas.  Notice around minute 2 who finds the scissors first.  The bird sound in the background is from "Hedwig" a snowy owl from the Audobon society, apparantly they don't all say "Hoo, Hoo".  

Merry Christmas!!!

Halloween 2011

This was the best Trick-or-Treating our neighborhood has ever seen. The house are almost all built now and there are so many more kids!  Henry was Sensei Wu (from Lego Ninjago) and Lizzy was Snow White. Her "Tank you! Ha-P Hal-ween" was amazingly cute.

You can kind of hear her lines at the start of the Video.

They got TONS!! of candy so I carried Henry's big bag (which we filld by the end of the night) and he used his hat flipped upside down.  

Veterans Day 2011 Program at Henry's school.

Henry's School put on a Veterans Day program for active duty and veterans in the area. They had all the Veterans sit up on the stage and all 1200 kids from the school packed into the lunch room.  It was really sweet and made me feel proud to be a part of the military and proud of the school for teaching the kids to love their country.  

A New Party Game for Parents

A few weeks back, on a Thursday, Henry had a tumble in gym class at school and had to go to the nurses office.  When he came home he was still protecting his left shoulder, but didn’t seem be in much pain.  We gave him some tylenol and he slept well that night; and we figured he’d be fine in the morning. He was a little sore in the morning so Anna got him a sling on the way to school.  He hardly slept Friday night, but seemed to be doing a bit better.  Some friends invited us to go up to the Guadelupe river and Henry was his normal self throwing rocks, swimming and jumpin off rocks (with a wince when he landed) in the river, which was barely a stream after 8 months of serious drought.  That afternoon, we finally decided to go get an X-ray…

You don’t have to be a Radiologist to figure this one out.  I stopped by the ER and they hooked us up with a kids size sling and ACE bandage to secure his arm against his chest with for a week or so. The Orthopod at church says the sling doesn’t do any direct good, but indirectly they slow kids down and keep other kids from tackling them.  Which helped us feel better about letting him go two days with a broken clavicle.  But when I ruefully admit to letting a radiologists son go two days with a broken bone before getting X-rays, it’s surprising how many parents openly admit they’ve done the same and some even say it like they’re trying to one up me.  First, it was 3 days on a wrist, then a week on a toe, with the prize (so far!) going to two months of gymnastics on a broken wrist…though I’m not sure that one really counts since it was more of a slipped growth plate. It was actually kind of fun to hear everybody’s stories…would make a great party game…especially watching the shock and disgust on the faces of those parents who have never been so negligent with their children…yet.

Took Henry back on Saturday for his follow up and it seems to be healing well. The extra bone around the break is called callous and part of the normal healing process.  Henry is back to normal life after about 3 weeks now.

If anyone can give two months a run for their money, let me know!

Lizzy know what’s up with Black Licorice