Emily got her splints off on Monday this week. All is well, and she’s back to being just as active as ever. We are all thrilled to know she’s healthy again.
We are all enjoying a very lazy Saturday morning, which is how we happened to notice we never gave everyone the rest of the story!
“What was that you just threw?”
– Daddy to Amanda, annoyed to see something red flying from her hand toward her sister’s head
“Illinois.”
– Emily, holding up the projectile– a foam US puzzle piece (that was indeed Illinois)
At a sporting goods store, Daddy and Emily perused a wall of left skates on display. After looking for awhile, Emily asked:
“Do they have any that match?”
“I was there so long I got sunburned. In fact, I got lobsterized.”
– Mama, retelling the tale of a beach trip from her college days
“How did you get lobster eyes?”
– Amanda, pointing at her own eyes in wonder
“When the Bible says ‘…all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God’, who is ‘all’?”
– Daddy, seeing if the girls understood that night’s Bible study
“All of us!”
– Amanda, chiming in first
“That’s right… everyone.”
– Daddy, acknowledging her answer
“Everyone in the whole world! Even in Canada!”
– Emily, feeling that “All of us” wasn’t quite… well… ALL of us…
(written down earlier this year, exact date forgotten)
“Watch out for the exploding Amanda!!”
– Amanda, running gleefully somewhere in the house. (No explanation was ever given as to why she was exploding.)
Well, I know I’ve needed to update the news on the website for a while, but there’s nothing quite like a minor family emergency to inspire such an update. This afternoon, Emily decided to lean over just a little to far while sitting on top of part of her playset (about seven feet off the ground.) The resulting tumble got mud in her mouth and nose and broke both of her arms. Yes, that’s right… both of her arms. The “radius” in both arms, to be precise. Ironically, we have 15 square yards of mulch being delivered this Saturday, much of which was going to go under the playset to refresh the fall-cushioning layer of mulch that is already there (but mostly worn away). If only she’d waited (grin)…
Anyway, she’s in “half-casts” right now, which basically amount to wrapped splints from her wrists to half-way up her upper arms. These will be on until Monday, when she’ll receive a forearm cast on each arm, at least allowing her to bend her elbows and feed/dress/etc. herself. She’s in good spirits, as can be evidenced by her quote and pictures from earlier tonight. We’ll see how she (and her Mama and Daddy and sister) hold up until Monday…
“This certainly is going to be an adventure… learning to do things with my new arms… new arms that don’t work very well…”
– Emily, talking with Daddy about her two broken forearms, splint-wrapped from wrist to bicep until she gets her forearms casts in five days.
“Mama, I believe this belongs to you!”
– Emily, suddenly wrapping her arms around her mama in a big hug
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