Lauren hard at work

One of Lauren's favorite things to do is color. Brian and I love to sneak and watch her. We love her concentration.
She is working so hard and has no idea we are watching her. What a funny little girl.

The old cast and the new cast

This is the cast that they put on in the ER. Our Orthopaedic  Dr. did not like the way they made the cast. After looking at the x-rays, he decided it was best to put on a full arm cast. It is for rotation purposes. Just to help it heal properly. She will have this new cast on for four weeks. Then they will put another short arm cast (waterproof) on for two more weeks. Lindsey looks real excited don't you think? She is still really tired from the long weekend of pain and lack of sleep. 
Here they are putting the new red cast over the short white one that they put on her in the ER. They did not want to cut the other one off because the bone would possibly move back out of place. So, they just put the new one over the old one. She is going to have a sweaty arm. Poor thing. 
The finished result after our appointment.
Here we are dropping Lindsey off at school. She needs to wear this sling for the first week. 

What a weekend

 It is very hard to tell on this x-ray but the lower bone has a simple fracture right near the wrist. Lindsey was having a great time with her cousins on Saturday. She was roller blading and hit a lip in the sidewalk going about 100mph and fell and broke her wrist. I heard her scream from a distance and thought for sure someone was hit by a car. When I got to her she was screaming, "I know I broke my arm". Sure enough it was all deformed and made me want to throw up. Luckily we had Brian's sister's family in town. They helped watch all the other kids and our brother n law Danny drove us to the hospital . We are also very blessed to live about one mile from the hospital.  When we got to the ER we were the only ones in the waiting room.  Poor Lindsey was still screaming like crazy. They took us in right away (we did end up spending 5 hours there). This is the most pain this child has ever been in. It is so hard as a parent to watch. They gave her an IV with some Morphine. It was pretty funny to watch as she went from being so tense and frantic to almost peaceful in about 1 minute. In her peaceful voice she said," I can still feel the pain". This time there were no more tears. Medicine is a cool thing. She also had to endure a nice shot right in the broken bone to numb it while the Dr. set the bone back in place for the cast. She is doing much better today. We are off the big time drugs at least. Motrin is working great. Tomorrow I need to take her back to the Orthopedist to make sure everything still looks good. He said with all the swelling she might have to get another cast. Her fingers are pretty fat today. I am so sad that I did not remember to bring my camera in all the panic to show how disgustingly deformed her wrist was. I will make sure and post a picture of our little patient soon. She does get to miss some school tomorrow. Since she broke her right arm, she also gets to try to be a left hander like her mother:) 

Lauren and her cousin Emma

I have had a fun time watching my niece all week while her family went to Disney World. Emma is such a sweet baby. She and Lauren had a great time playing together. 

Hat Day

 Today the girls had hat day at school. Here they are looking a little tired. I think they are ready for the weekend.

I am now a blogger!!

 I have been wanting to create a blog for over a year now and I finally did it!! Please don't have high expectations of me. I am not good at this kind of thing. I will try my very best though. I am also not much of a writer, in fact I am terrible at it. This should be Brian's job to do the postings because he is so eloquent in his writing. Anyway, welcome to our blog!!!