Wild Flowers of Texas

Fall is normally my favorite time of the year, but the Texas springs are definitely growing on me.

This is what we saw coming home from church last Sunday. The Blue Bonnets (Texas' state wild flower) are coming up everywhere. Aren't they so beautiful?

Slip-sliding awa - OH GOSH OW!

So, on Saint Patrick's Day we were invited to a bar-b-que at a local park. This particular park had a couple of cool slides. One of them was a side-by-side slide that also sported a fun s-curve to it. Being the cool mom that I am I decided to take the kids down the slide with me. Ebby was on the slide next to me and I put Autumn on my lap. Right before the curve Autumn's foot slid down between my thigh and the side of the slide. I noticed that her foot got pinched but didn't think it was that bad. Autumn cried but not for very long so I figured everything was ok.

The next day (Sunday) she wanted to be held a lot and had a stuffy nose. Thinking she was sick, Andrew stayed home from church with her.

When I got home Andrew told me he'd noticed that she refused to stand and would NOT walk. She'd crawl but only a little. We finally put two and two together and took her to the urgent care clinic. They did an x-ray and couldn't find anything wrong. They put an ace bandage on and told us it was probably just a sprained tendon.

The next morning we got a call from the doctor we saw the night before. He told us he had sent the images to a radiologist and he found a small fracture in her mid tibia and that we should come in right away to make sure there was no swelling or anything.

We saw a podiatrist who said everything still looked ok but that she needed a cast. He told us to schedule an appointment with the fracture clinic, put the ace bandage back on, and told us not to let her walk or stand and sent us on our way.

What he failed to mention was that the fracture clinic is only open one day a week. Thursdays. So, for almost a week now Andrew and I have been hovering over her trying to make sure she (and Ebby) didn't do any more damage. It's been very stressful and very tiring. 

We were very excited this morning to finally get her cast. We went to the clinic at 9:45. Three and a half hours and two casts  later (Autumn screamed and kicked so much the first attempt was rubbish) we finally made it home. For the first time in four days Andrew and I feel like we can stop holding our breath and Autumn's just thrilled she can do stuff again.

What a week. I bet both my kids will think twice about going down a slide with their "cool" mom.

It was time for a change

About a week ago I woke up hating my hair. I really wanted a change from the long and straight and since my hair refuses to curl in any way that would be remotely pretty I decided to go short again. What do you think?

Random, Autumn, Random

This is what Andrew managed to video at dinner. I guess Autumn just got bored after she was done with her food.

Busy, Busy Saturday!

So, Andrew and I are SO glad this weekend is pretty much over. Andrew's been teaching Gospel Doctrine every other Sunday at church. Today was his week to teach and the Bishopric asked him to speak in sacrament. Also, his class begged him into making cookies for them. (I was so happy to hear that!) So, with schedules and kids and life it came down to doing all of this preparing yesterday. He started studying at ten in the morning, he finished just before ten last night. In case you were wondering, this is what he looked like all day.

His talk was great ("Being in the World but not of the World"), he lesson was amazing (as always) and we're so excited to be relaxing.

Necklaces and Scary Movies

Scary Movies:

If you don't know, The Nightmare Before Christmas is one of my all time favorite movies. I don't know if any of you will believe me but I have only watched it once in front of Ebby (he was less than a year old) and never in front of Autumn. And that one time I realized that it would probably be too scary for them. You know with the bogeyman and that clown with the tear-away face and all. 

So you can imagine my surprise when Ebby pointed to the DVD and said, "Please, Mommy, Please!" When I told him it was too scary he started having a BIG meltdown. So, I put on the movie totally thinking he'd get scared in the first few minutes of the film and then we'd switch it to something more suitable for toddlers. Well, not only did Ebby love it but Autumn did too. So much that he's asked for it four times in the past week! 

These are definitely my children.

Necklaces:
Autumn has decided she likes the softer side of woman hood. This is a video of her first "necklace" experience.

 

P.S. I've never put a necklace on her and Andrew took the video, so this is all Autumn.

Holiday videos at last!

It's really late but here is proof we had a great holiday vacation.