Happy Thanksgiving

Just a few things we’re thankful for:

A God who loves us unconditionally, family near and far, friends, memories, cameras, Cinderella, jobs, our house, clothes, food, fabulous teachers, shoes, books, coffee, computers, birds, oceans, mountains, rain, sun, snow, dolphins, music, modern medicine, cars, girl scouts, Disneyland, chairs, light, blankets, lady bugs, former and current members of the armed services, cinnamon rolls, gymnastics, bikes, chocolate, the moon, stars….

Armen…I know I need to correct her, but it’s just too cute.  Happy Thanksgiving!  Hugs and Kisses to you all!

Pre-K Pumpkin Patch

I should start out this post with a little background.  The day before I went with Emerson’s school to the pumpkin patch, she fell and hurt her arm.  She was at Hannah’s soccer practice and apparently, was trying to stand on the soccer ball and fell off.  No one knows exactly what happened because she was off playing on a different field when it happened.  When she fell off, we’re thinking she tried to brace herself with her hands and hurt her wrist bracing for the fall.  She left soccer practice crying and when they got home she started crying again.  The rest of the night she was favoring her arm and wasn’t using it.  Rather than taking her to the walk in to have it looked at, we decided to wait and see how she was the next day.  Well…at 11 she woke up crying saying that her arm still hurt.  I sat up with her for 45 minutes trying to get her to calm down enough to take some Tylenol.  We got the Tylenol in her and we sat up for a little longer until we both started to doze off.  I purposely didn’t ask her about her arm in the morning.  I wanted to wait and see if she brought it up first.  Sure enough, not 10 minutes after getting up she was in tears again.  She couldn’t get herself dressed and she just wasn’t using her arm.  I talked with Tom and decided that we better get her in and have it looked at.  The soonest they could see her was 4 in the afternoon.  I took her to the pumpkin patch because I knew she would be disappointed if we didn’t go.  Looking back now, I’m really glad we did, because this was our only trip to the pumpkin patch for this year. 

I can’t believe how big she is getting.  It pains me!She tried to pick up her pumpkin with her hurt arm.  That didn’t go so well for her.  Poor thing. She quickly decided that this was not her pumpkin and had to keep looking.Her perfect pumpkin!I told her to go over to the corn stalks and give me her scared face and this is what I got.And then we needed a nice one. She’s such a poser!The teachers got to put the pumpkins in the pumpkin launcher.  The kids thought that was pretty darn cool, except for the fact that it was loud.After the tour of the farm the kids got to play in the play area.  She was doing great until she fell trying to climb into the tube slide.  She slipped and hit her arm which caused big tears.  We got this picture just before it happened.  We sat on the hay bales for a while and then got this picture with the sunflowers in the background. 

So, her arm?  Well, we left the pumpkin patch, picked up Hannah and dropped her off at Tom’s office and went to the Dr.  We were at the Dr’s office for 2.5 hours only to leave there with x-rays and a referral to an orthopedic specialist.  Her doctor couldn’t find any fractures in her arm and was at a loss.  She was sure from the way Emerson was reacting to her examinations that she was going to find a fracture on the x-rays.  She tried a brace and a sling but neither of them provided Emerson with any comfort.  So we left and decided to wait and call the specialist if it got worse.  Thankfully, it didn’t.  Within a few days she was back to using it as if nothing had happened.  Crazy girl!

Fun Run

Hannah’s school had their annual Fun Run at the beginning of October.  The school had to pull out a couple of pieces of playground equipment over the summer so the PTA dedicated all the proceeds from the Fun Run for new play equipment.  Apparently the swings are a very dangerous thing to have at a school (insert eye rolling here).

One of the incentives for the kids were little foot charms for their backpacks.  If the kids ran a specific set of laps they would earn a charm.  For Hannah’s grade, I thought it was 10 laps and that’s what I had been telling Hannah every night the week before the run.  So, come run day that’s exactly what she did.  She ran 2.5 miles in 30 minutes.  Tom and I were so proud of her for not giving up.  She and one other girl both ran 10 laps and were the top girl lap runners in her class.  Only one girl in the 3rd grade ran 11 laps.  I was so proud of her and I felt really bad when I found out that 3rd graders only needed to run 8 laps. So proud of this girl and so thankful that her class ran early in the morning so they weren’t running in the heat of the afternoon.  I’m not certain she would have ran so hard if it had been any warmer. Not to be out done by her big sister and all of the other big kids, Emerson decided she wanted to run as well.  Her and her friend Jayden (Jayden has a big brother in Hannah’s grade) did their fair share of running.  Emerson ran 5 laps.  Not being a runner, I was totally impressed with how much my girls enjoy running.  Maybe they can teach me to love running. :)Not sure what’s going on here but…  but they make me laugh!  Here they are cheering the kids on from the water table. They were great cheerleaders for the bigger kids.I told them they could hand water out to the runners and boy did they think that was the greatest thing ever.  I mean, seriously, who wouldn’t want to take water from this girl??

It was a successful day for our school, we raised just over $10,700.  Thank you to everyone who donated to Hannah.  We appreciate it and hopefully, next year, when Emerson is there as well (sniff, sniff), there will be some new playground equipment. :)