Hot Soup - Week 11

Here's what Rachel's foot is looking like these days. She's able to swim again, wear socks and shoes and even is playing on the softball team!

Spring in the UP

So the weather has finally started to warm up and Craig had to take advantage of it and play with the girls at Picnic Rocks Park. It had to be in the 60's but the water was still frigid. They had a great time remembering back to October when we had gone there to play in the sand before the snow came.

Baptism Day

I remember back when the kids were little and we were still adding to our family, thinking that baptism day for them would be so far off. Well, reality has set in and our final child, our little Lauren, was baptised on May 2nd.
As you can tell by the picture, the entire family wasn't able to be there due to extenuating circumstances, but she was lucky enough to have been baptised the same day with her good friend, who just happens to be named Lorin too!

Old Time Photo...

The last time we had a family picture officially taken, Lauren was still in pull-ups, so when we visited the wonderful Mall of America during out Easter trip to Minneapolis, we just couldn't resist having these taken of our brood.

Skipping Stairs, part 2

So, turns out Lauren's 15 minutes of attention came to a quick and painless end as we saw Dr./Bro. Blotter a few days after the fall and he told us that there was no break and that the temporary cast was coming off. YIPPEE!

Skipping stairs...

...we all have done it, right? How many stairs can you skip? Well, Lauren was asking herself that same question last night and decided to see. "Three" she figured, but what she didn't count on was her hand slipping as she skipped said steps. Head over heels she went down the stairs and ended up on her back on the landing. Initially she was pretty banged up, her arms were scratched and a little bruised, and she complained of her forearms hurting. I figured, well of course your arms are going to hurt, you just fell down the stairs! They didn't look obviously broken to me and she could squeeze my fingers so I was going to just put her to bed and see how she was in the morning. Mr. Mom had other thoughts on the matter and off to the hospital they went.

Now 9 times out of 10 I am right about the kids and their injuries or lack there of. This was that one time when I was wrong. They took 8 films in the ER and found something that may suggest that she broke her elbow near a growth plate. So they wrapped her arm in a temporary cast, put it in a sling and gave Craig instructions to call Dr. Blotter for him to take a look at it. Lucky for us, Dr. Blotter is also known to us as Brother Blotter, the Young Men's President at church, so Lauren was quite thrilled to know that she would get to see his office in the near future. She was eager to get up this morning and go to school to show off her newest accessory to anyone who noticed.

Hot Soup - the video

Rachel took this video at Dr. Geissler's office (the platic surgeon) on day 2 when he broke open the blister to allow it to drain. It's pretty gross...