DING DING DING round 2

man this girl is crazy.

i was looking forward to finally having a regular scheduled day.

i was on my way out the door to piano when my phone rang, i was locking my door so i nearly didn't even get it, but i decided to look and it was the school.

JD was on the other line sobbing.  "mom, i hurt my arm".  bad news!  and of course it was the same elbow as last time.  so i quickly went to the school, knowing that it was not good.  took one look at the girl and man, she had landed on the EXACT SAME SPOT as last time.  how on earth does that happen?

ran little B over to SIL's, who so kindly spend 5 long hours with her, THANK YOU, and ran around the county, once again, like a chicken with my head cut off.  this is sounding all too familiar.

had the xrays, tech wouldn't tell me diddly, i know i know, they're not supposed to, but their system ended up crashing so no one could even look at the xrays to tell us where to go next.  so we had to go all the way home until we heard, and she was totally unprotected.

finally got the call to come in, CJ went to our amazing friends house, another huge thanks, and SIL kept B.

the xrays were CRAZY! she had split the exact same fracture only it wasn't just a fracture, it was a split.  they said about 2.7 mm.  i guess that's big.  it looked huge on the xray.

got her in a soft cast, waiting word if they'd need to actually pin it back together.

but man, look at this smile.  JD is the biggest trooper i know.  i had to force her to take motrin just so I'D feel better.  and she was already planning what color she wanted for her cast.  she only had the neon green on for 3 days last time and she wanted to give it a go again.

so after a day of waiting to hear back about surgery, we luckily got the GOOD NEWS that they'd just cast it and see.  she's got health and age on her side, for now anyway.  4 weeks and we'll see how it goes.

** oh in all of that i didn't even tell you how she did it.

HOOLA HOOP

um yeah. i can't even really explain that. just a simple fall on a sensitive spot.

doctor's prescription: bubble wrap. hilarious. if only i could!

D's most bummed about not being able to play basketball, she was just getting into it and loving it.

piano festival is also coming up, which she's not so bummed about, but the rest of us are! she's still able to play with the cast, so we're just gonna go on like she's fine.  maybe they'll give her a superior for sympathy!

either way, i'm amazed at this girl and her tolerance for pain.

she's still goofy as all get out.

love her!

gt out

to the king

happy birthday

how'd i do?

fantastic.

what blurking can do for a person

I openly admit I'm a blurker, blog-stalker, whatever you want to call it.  I get really inspired by it.  I often go to crafty sites and although I don't actually follow through with any of the brilliant projects I come across, I still love seeing the ideas.  So today I came across this.  Now, her idea is that from a book she's currently reading, but I thought it was clever.  An accountability for your actions every day.  Being a stay-at-home mom has become boring for me.  Does that mean I'm really doing something wrong?  Whatever.  So I figured if I set myself 5 tasks a day, that just may liven things up.  Fingers crossed. 
Yesterday was fairly simple.
- Take Jon to work.  I do this nearly every work day, but it's still something I need to prepare for.  Obviously this task was completed, later than both of us would have liked, but done none-the-less.
- Get my work password reset/unlocked.  It's a little frustrating when you go into work at night, get locked out and there's no one there to help you get fixed.
- B's Playgroup.  I was looking forward to and dreading this event.  It's been 2 weeks due to holiday break and B hasn't been the best of students recently, so getting back into the swing of things could possibly take some major patience.  And B did great!  Circle Time was not an issue of her running away, rather an issue of her jumping on and loving me insanely while I giggled like an Elmo doll.  It was great!
- B eating a real lunch.  B has troubles eating.  She just doesn't like to eat.  Yesterday, she at nearly an entire piece of bread with honey on it.  Major milestone!  (she actually did it again today! YAY!)
- Lins Lu's kiddos.  My BFF Lins has been ordered to take it easy for a while during her pregnancy.  I offered to take her kiddos for a few hours.  I was able to run over and bring them back to my house.  We had ice cream and went through the car wash, which B & Fin were terrified of.  I thought most kids love the car wash? No?  It was a great night with all the kiddies.  I'm looking forward to when I can do that again!
So that's 5, but I did a few extra things as well...
- Picked up JD's festival music
- Got B down for a nap and she didn't whine or try to come out once.
- Got the kids ready and out for school with no fighting for the 2nd day in a row (back to school is still new and exciting)


So here's to today's
- Me, piano
- buy piano books
- pick up kids from piano to take to TFam's for tending
- go to temple with youth for baptisms (a first for me, oober excited!)
- go to youth activity


I'll let you know how these go tomorrow, or tonight.


disclaimer:  i claim a few degrees of association to so and so.  i really do know her in real life (or rather I did in my past life, her dad was my bishop when i was baptized and i was seriously going to marry her little brother) and they're buddies.  so i'm really not that crazy.  but you're still allowed to think so.  i don't care.  it's still a good idea either way.

just cause

because i'm tired of looking at christmas morn and love to see my beauties out in nature.

hopefully i'll be able to take tons more of shots like these!

aren't they perty???