We said goodbye to his "friend"!

The cast is off!  After 10 long days, Andrew's cast came off yesterday.  That thing was filthy, I can't imagine what it would be like if he had to wear it for 6 weeks!

We tried to keep it clean, but he is 2 and likes to play in the dirt, and with playdoh, and crawl around on the ground.  It was a pain to bathe him, he wore a bread bag on his arm and we told him his friend can't swim so he held his hand over his head the whole time.  Every once in a while he would forget and his little arm would drift down toward the water and we would remind him his fried can't swim and his arm would shoot back in the air.

I thought he would not be happy about it coming off, he had become a bit attached to it I think.  When we got it off they gave him some big headphones so he wouldn't be scared of the saw noise, he sat in my lap and they cut off his cast.  He actually giggled the whole time, I guess the saw tickled.  He has a small incision at the base of his thumb that is pretty much healed and he can now straighten his thumb all the way!  He gives a pretty good thumbs up!  I thought he would be dying to go swimming today since he couldn't for the past 10 days but I asked him if he wanted to go and he said "no", maybe another day!

Andrew's surgery

About 8 months ago we noticed that Andrew's left thumb wouldn't straighten all the way.  It didn't seem to bother him any but I asked the Dr about it at his last visit and she referred him to an orthopedic specialist.  Turns out he had trigger thumb and they wanted to do a release to correct it so he went in to surgery today.

We had to get there at 7:30 this morning, after a lot of waiting, looking at fish and playing with trucks, we went back to get ready.  He changed into a hospital gown and drank some nasty medicine.

The medicine first made him loopy.

Then really sleepy.

Then they took him back and Kenneth and I were sent back to the waiting room.  The surgery took about an hour an a half (but felt like 3 days) then they called us back.  I sat in a recliner and they put my sleepy boy in my arms.  Everything went well and he has to wear a cast for the next 10 days to protect his incision.  When he started waking up he saw his cast and said "a friend!".  After a little bit we got to head home (but Andrew was sure to ask the nurse for some ice cream before leaving) and we have had an afternoon of snuggling on the couch watching Caillou on TV.

More walking, stinky feet, and bike races

Emily is walking all over the place now, she still walks like a zombie but she is getting better every day!

And I guess Emily has stinky feet, I seem to recall another little someone with stinky feet :)

Andrew made Emily race him on his bike today.  

He won every time, poor Em.

Chocolate cake and walking

Last week for my birthday, Kenneth bought me ice cream cake for us all to share.

Emily enjoyed it!  And when she was all done Andrew said "ewwww, yuck, sister needs a bath....and me bath too?!"  He loves taking baths now and sometimes will tell us that his sister needs a bath just so he can take one too.  Yesterday, he was going to take a shower and we were not going to bathe Emily, then Andrew folded his little hands and said "pleeeeaaaaase"

Emily is starting to walk a lot more.

I need to get out the video camera for that soon.  Andrew cheers her on when she walks.  She likes to wear our shoes...on her hands.  She pulled these dusty shoes out of the closet yesterday.

And Andrew is talking soooo much, like all the time, never stops!  He comes up with the funniest things, I need to be better about writing down the funny things he says so I can come back in 15 years and laugh about them.  The other day I was standing on a chair and he caught me and scolded me "uh uh mommy, don't stand on chairs, you'll fall, hit your head, it hurt, you'll need doctor".  We got a new couch for our living room and Andrew has claimed his spot.  Yesterday I sat in his spot and got scolded again, "no mommy, that's ME spot".  One of his new favorite games is to play puppy, he will put a toy in his mouth, drop it at your feet and pant like a dog, then he wants you to throw the toy for him.   No pictures of Andrew today, I will work on that!

Big News

As of today, every member of our family can walk!  Emily can only take about 5 steps but hey, it counts!

I was taking some pictures of her today and trying to get her to stand up and she just started walking!   I was wishing my camera had a video feature, but at least I have photos.   Check out the concentration on her face!

Happy 4th of July

So I am a bit late on this one, here are the pictures from the 4th.  We went to see the fireworks in Alachua, it was pretty awesome.  Really crowded, they have a big ball field where there was lots of action but we just pulled out out chairs and sat by the truck, we had a perfect view of the fireworks and didn't have to deal with the crowd.  Andrew and Emily both thought the fireworks were pretty neat.

12 month well visit

Emily saw the doctor today.  She is now 19.6 pounds (44th percentile) and 28.5"(24th percentile).  And her head is 18.6", in the 95th percentile just like her brother :) it must be all those brains!   She got 3 shots and a finger prick and screamed like crazy, poor thing.  Then she came home and slept all afternoon.

He brother was pretty upset it wasn't his turn for the doctor.  All morning he was telling me "me go doctor, no sister" even faking boo boos and telling me he needed a doctor.  But once he saw those vaccines come in the room, he was quick to offer his sister up for the shots!  While she was napping at home, he was pretty concerned about her, "where's sister? she has boo boos, she was crying"