Kate's Birthday

We had a wonderful, and busy day celebrating Kate. It was soccer game day (and we had an early game) so we started early with a new Kate tradition of getting pumpkin pie for breakfast (partly because I need an excuse to buy my first Costco pumpkin pie of the season). Then we headed out to soccer games for L and J and found our way back home for a somewhat lazy afternoon before going out to dinner (Spaghetti Factory - Kate's choice). The only downside was when we got to the restaurant we had to make a detour to urgent care to get Jaydon's finger looked at from a soccer injury earlier that day. He wound up with a small fracture in his right index finger.

Now about Kate! She is so full of personality. She has these facial expressions that are hilarious, her voice and inflection are super cute and she is good at making people laugh. We often get questions on if it is hard to discipline her because she comes off as angelic but also somewhat devious in her ability to give you a look that may let her get out of anything. She is loving being in T-K this year and going to school every afternoon (11-2:35) at the same school as big brother and sister. She loves to volunteer answers and can definitely be a bit of a bossy pants. She is still doing gymnastics and looks forward to doing dance this spring and starting some other sports in the fall (though managing all three of their schedules will be a challenge). Kate loves coloring and doing art projects, she also enjoys playing with horses and dolls. She gives some of the best healing kisses for boo-boos and is still a snuggler. She brings a lot of energy and joy into our lives.

 Happy with her dinner at the spaghetti factory!

And...Jaydon's swollen finger. Probably should be its own post but oh well.

Injury

It is a bit strange, Jaydon has an injury and we cannot figure out what is really wrong. On Friday he was jumping around in one of the big bouncy houses and sort of crumpled down and cried owie. He then limped and didn't want to walk on his left foot/leg. After a trip to the Dr. that evening we decided on no x-rays because he was putting pressure on it, but that he should stay off of it and rest as much as possible (oh so easy with a very active two year old). So after watching a bit more Sesame Street then we care to we got him to rest. By Sunday he was still limping quite a bit so we decided to take him in for x-rays. They did the foot (not the leg) and didn't find anything. Thus figuring a sprain and to let him use it but monitor it. The injury seemed quite a bit better after last evening of being able to be on it and walk around but then tody he had another instance of just falling over (not even doing anything) and really crying because it hurt. We may be in for more Dr. trips or we might just have to try going back to takign it really easy for awhile. Seems weird to have a young kid like that be able to sprain their ankle with such loose tendons and ligaments but that appears to be the best answer at this point. Unfortunately, it really sucks to try and keep him not as active and he still can't quite communicate with us everything that is going on. Send good healing vibes and prayers his way!