Schools In

Well it is that time of year again. Tyler has gone back to school to the first grade. He was very excited and announced after his first day that:

"Mom, I have the best teacher in the whole school!"

We are happy that he is enjoying it and hope the enthusiasm keeps up throughout the school year.

Tyler has already enjoyed new adventures already this fall. He went dove hunting with Dad for the first time. He was so excited to go, even if he wasn't the one that would be shooting.

JC was proud to say that Tyler was not afraid of cleaning the birds, which could be tramatic for some. They got 10 birds and Tyler enjoyed being the "bird dog" for the evening. He went away with only one bad retrieving experience which "hopefully" he has learned from. He went to pick up one of the birds and quickly learned that it was covered in fire ants. Ouch!!!In the midst of all our new adventures. Caitlin had a an accident on Saturday. She was trying to follow the bad example of her sister and some friends and thought it would be fun to jump off of the three foot dresser on to a mattress that was placed on the ground for our guests. Needless to say, the landing was not as smooth as hoped.

We initially thought that it was a simple sprained ankle or pulled muscle in her foot. By the next morning we realized that the injury might be worse than we first realized. She did not sleep well at all that evening and we noticed that there was now broosing and swelling in her foot and she was still limping, so we decided to take her to the doctor. They found that she broke her first metatarsal, the bone just above her big toe. It is actually just a little chip and the doctors wondered how she was able to chip her bone in that location. She is such a tough little girl that we didn't realize the injury had been that bad. Since this was the emergency weekend care they just splinted her foot and sent us home to see the specialist later in the week.

Since I had one injured child and two with a cold we opted to spend the labor day holiday at home. After the long weekend we brought Caitlin into the specialist. He decided that she needs to wear a cast for 4 weeks. She was excited to choose her own cast color and was pretty adamant on pink.

She will be limping around for the next month and will be able to have the cast removed at the beginning of next month. Luckily the break was not too close to the growth plate and should not affect the growth of her foot in the future :) This has not stoped her from climbing on stuff she shouldn't though, she still continues to be our little monkey.

Well I believe that is all for our newest adventures, we will keep you posted on any new updates. This next month will be pretty busy as I will be going out to NJ for a trip to our main office and we will be preparing to move to a new house. ......but I will try to let everyone know how things are going.