One Month

Our little Olivia is already one month!

Little hand

Big yawn

Kaitlyn wanting in on the action

1 month

The Garage

During paternity leave, Todd spent a few days organizing and cleaning out the garage. He bought some shelving units and got all of our stuff to fit in the small Texas, two car garage. It's been clean now for two and a half weeks. We're hoping we can keep it that way.

Casting

Abby finally got her cast on Monday. She picked purple because at the time she was wearing a purple shirt and she wanted it to match. She loves having people sign her cast and is doing very well at be ambidextrous.

Goofy Juice

On Monday, we went in to the orthopedic surgeon to see about getting a cast. I forgot the x-rays from the clinic and they had to take new ones. They took two x-rays at different angles and you could really see the V shape that Abby's bones made that put the droop in her arm. Since the ER clinic did not set the bones, we had to set up another appointment to put Abby under anaesthesia and set the bones for the next day.

Tuesday, Todd took Abby in and they gave her a cocktail of some "goofy juice" which made her loopy and put her to sleep. Everything went great and the bones are now straight. Abby woke up happy and hungry. She is continuing to do well, besides a little moodiness from lack of sleep. She is unable to go to school until she gets her cast on, which will be next week Monday so there has been a lot of movie watching in our house. A huge thanks to all those who have called, emailed, stopped by to cheer up Abby (and her mom), brought food, all the offers of help, and watching Kaitlyn and Olivia while we are at the appointments. We wouldn't be able to get through this without all your help.

Drugged up and ready for surgery

Broken

Broken arm

Nice droop in the arm.

We have made our first ER trip with one of our kids. Abby had soccer practice Sat. afternoon and with 15 minutes left of practice, she tripped, fell, and broke her right arm. Todd was luckily at the practice and quickly scooped her up and took her to the nearby emergency clinic. I think I would have freaked out and not handled the situation as well as he did.

I met up with Todd and Abby at the clinic while Abby was getting her IV needle to get some pain meds. Poor girl was screaming quite loudly. Broke my heart to see her in that pain. Once the pain medicine took effect she fell asleep. A couple hours later, they gave her a fiber glass splint and wrapped her arm well and sent us home. We'll be going in Monday or Tuesday to get her cast on.

Hurting

Ahhh, the pain medicine has kicked in.

She was in a lot of pain during the night and we had to give her some strong medicine. Todd stayed up with her until it kicked in. He made her as comfortable as possible on the couch with her arm elevated. We are icing it and keeping it elevated to keep the swelling down. I felt so useless to her during the night when she was crying. I just wanted to take the pain from her. Todd has done a great job being the Dr/nurse/helper/and a great comforter to Abby. Abby is taking this quite well and is doing a good job using her left hand.

Some of the comments Abby has made:

In the car on the way to the ER clinic: "I want to go home. I want mommy! I want a Dr. to fix this!"

"[My fingers] won't move."

At the clinic when the Dr. was going to give her medicine with the IV, she snuggled up and said, "I don't want anything on my body."

"My arm is sick, it's broken."

I Won!

I've entered a few contests on blogs here and there and this time I finally won! I won a gift certificate to Sugarhouse Ink. It came at the perfect time for me to do baby announcements. They have all sorts of cute cards for pretty much any type of celebration. I found the contest through a blog called Mom Giveaways. It lists blogs that hold contests and the prizes range from money, to baby items, to whatever. There are tons of these contests out there.

Goodreads

Instead of doing book reviews again this year I've decided to invite all you readers to sign up on www.Goodreads.com if you haven't already. I've been posting my book reviews on that site and have enjoyed seeing other friends book reviews too. It's easy to sign up and find friends through you email server. Once on, you can rate your book and write a review. Goodreads will send an email out to your friends list with updates.