Wednesday, July 7, 2010

The Cast

After calling all over town I found out that our town does not have a Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon. I called our family doctor to get a recommendation since I do not have a clue on who I should bring Lacey to see. The nurse called back suggested a Dr and when she called the Orthopedic Surgeons office they recommended taking her to a podiatrist since it is a foot injury.

To the podiatrist we went! After waiting 2 hours past our appointment schedule we finally got into see him. He looked at her foot, pressed on the injured area, then looked at x-rays from the Express Care Clinic and then he confirmed that yes in fact her foot was fractured. Although when he was looking at it you would have never know that it was hurt, when he pressed on the injured area she didn't even flinch and she was walking on it without the cast while he was looking at the xrays!

The Dr. decided it was a must that she get a hard cast put on it since she obviously was not going to let her injury slow her down. She has to wear the cast for 2 weeks, so on July 22nd we will go in, have an xray to confirm a healed foot, remove the cast and hopefully we will be on our way!

Her cute pink cast...pre-signatures

Could she be any cuter???

Look at all those signatures...
Our family and all the teachers at her daycare signed her cast. We will keep it as a keepsake for sure!





Monday, July 5, 2010

Our Unforgettable 4th of July

Our 4th of July will be one we won't forget for quite sometime. You see Lacey and Kylie were playing on some playground equipment at the campground and Lacey tried to be like big sister and reach for the monkey bars. One tiny problem, she reached them and then fell down. When she fell down she hurt her foot pretty badly. It was obvious almost immediatly something had happened.

When she was trying to get up her right leg was shaking so badly that she kept falling down. I was sure that I would see a broken bone of some kind either from her leg or her foot. Thankfully I didn't see anything. I carried her back to the camper where Nana and I looked at her and both of us couldn't see anything wrong at first. So Nana went back to her house got an ace bandage to wrap her leg and foot. During the time Nana was gone Kylie, Lacey, and myself went to the pool. At that time Lacey was limping on her foot and not really complaining very much at all. After swimming Nana wrapped Lacey's foot after she was able to determine it was her foot that was bothering Lacey and not her leg.

Lacey took a nap and after her nap she wouldn't put any pressure at all on her her foot and started crying 'Owie' out of the blue. We all decided that she should probably go to the doctor to have it checked out. Uncle Chris and Auntie Charissa took Lacy and I to an Express care clinic in town. It was x-rayed (thank you Chris and Charissa for being ther for Lacey) and determined that she had fracture her foot. They said they had never see a foot fracture on someone so young! Leave it to Lacey!

They put a soft cast on her foot and told me I needed to get her to a Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon within the next 1-2 days. The Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon's job will be to make sure the bones heal properly. So I will be making an appoinment as soon as I can to get into the Doctor and we'll see what he/she says the next step is....

Her soft cast...


Saturday, July 3, 2010

Fireworks!

We went to Nana and Papas house to celebrate the 4th of July holiday. At the campround where there camper is located there they had a wonderful fireworks display. Amazingly Lacey slept through the whole thing, and I'm not sure how because they were VERY loud!



Some them scared Kylie because they were so loud. I feel slightly bad that Lacey didn't get to see them, but at the same time I think they probably would have scared her.





Friday, July 2, 2010

Rodeo Fun

We went to the Rodeo! Kylie loved it, the only thing she didn't approve of is the calf roping. I got to say I agree with her, that is my least favorite part too.



Of course the clown, he was actuallypretty funny most of the time. Lacey did NOT like him though, when he came close to the fence she took off AWAY from him.


Kylie liked the bucking horses, she though they were pretty cool! I didn't get a picture of the bulls, but she was equally intrigued by them too. She told Daddy they were real bulls and they werr big!

Lacey liked all the 'neigh neighs'. She did very well, the rodeo started at 7pm and ended at 10pm. So the evening definatley ran well into her bedtime but she was a real trooper! They had intermission half way through so we went and got more to drink, Lacey got some popcorn (her favorite) and Kylie secured some cotton candy and a cowgirl hat. I think she looks so darn cute in it.





Who can forget the awesome trick rider! She was great, riding 2 horses at the same time barefoot, too cool!
After the Rodeo Kylie talked me into letting them go on a couple of rides. Lacey really seemed to enjoy the 'helicopter ride' and kept waving to Kylie the whole time. Of course she isn't old enough to go on any by herself so I went with her.

I've always wanted to be in one of those 'Wild West Old Time Photos', however I've never managed to do it. So, I asked Kylie if she was interested and she was! What do you think?

Monday, June 21, 2010

Happy Anniversary!

Today my wonderful husband and I have been married for 7 wonderful years. We have 2 beautuiful daughters and baby number three on the way due to arrive sometime in January, 2011.
Sweetheart you are a wonderful husband and father. The girls and I are blessed to have you in our lives.
Happy Anniversary!

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Happy Birthday and Father's Day

Happy Birthday, Happy Father's Day

Love, me and the girls :)

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Pictures of Kylie, my beautiful first born

All of these pictures were taken at the same time as Lacey's 18 month pictures. Kylie loves to get her pictures taken and had been asking me for a couple of weeks when her and Lacey were going to get their pictures taken again!
She is so photogenic I love it!
My personal favorite
Shows her personality :)

Love her expression

She looks so much older in this picture

More of her personality

Pretty girl



Sunday, June 6, 2010

18 Months

Look who's 18 Months old already?! Lacey is such a fun little girl to be around, she is talking up a storm these days. She can say just about anything you ask her to and she is really working hard at saying please and thank you. She can say both words so we are working on remembering to say them.
Here are some of her 18 Month pictures, they really show off her personality... :)









peek a boo!


little Miss innocent

being silly and trying to jump




Here 18 Month wellness visit went very well. She is developing right on track. She is 25 1/2 pouns and 31 1/2 inches tall, both in the 50th percentile.

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Kylie's Dance Video


Ever since the school talent contest where a few girls danced to this song Kylie has been singing and dancing to it all the time. I have to admit it isn't a bad song, I kind of like it :)

Enjoy her dance video!

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Kindergarten Graduation

I can't believe Kylie is going to be a first grader! Where does all the time go? She had her Kindergarten graduation on June 1st, it was beautiful. Here are some pictures from the graduation:


The beautiful graduate
Sitting pretty waiting for the program to begin

Her entire class, there were 16 in her class. Twelve boys and only four girls!

The happy graduate after she received her diploma

Kylie and Mother Mary...I LOVE this picture it has to be one of my favorites!

We are so proud of Kylie!

Daddy and Kylie

and of course Mommy and Kylie

The school principal

And Kylie's wonderful teacher Ms. Lisa

Kylie loved school. All weekend long she would ask if she had school or not starting Friday evening after she got home from school. She learned so much this year and has gained lots of new friendships. When she started Kindergarten she didn't know anyone in her class and when she graduated she was pretty much friends with all of them! They are a great bunch of kids and hopefully they will all be back in the fall!