Ashlee's walking!

Yesterday, Ashlee had her "six weeks after surgery" follow up appointment and she was so excited when she was told to ditch the crutches. She still has to wear her boot at all times for two weeks, but she is walking, yea! The person who lent her the scooter needed it back for a relative two weeks ago and so she was on crutches the past two weeks. When we were at her appointment yesterday, we saw the lady with the scooter that she had used. She could tell it was the exact one because of a ribbon and other things on it. Funny, huh?

Healthy Snacks

I really like for my kids to eat healthy snacks. Usually after school they have fruit or sometimes a whole grain banana or pumpkin bread. A few days ago Brittany told me that she was tired of always having fruit and healthy snacks after school. I decided to take a healthy snack and make it a little more fun. I made fruit kabobs with a little chocolate drizzled on it. (They were a foot long!) The kids were all excited and loved them.

Brittany, enjoying her fruit kabob!

Winter again!!

We are all really wanting spring weather. We've had pretty nice weather, but the beginning of this week got really cold again. The kids didn't have school on Monday and they were so excited to play outside. They were so disappointed that it turned cold on Monday and began snowing, but I heard them talking and they decided to go outside and have fun anyway!

Tyler, Emily, Brittany

Emily loves to dance

Emily loves to dance. She is becoming a really good dancer. She loves her ballet and jazz classes. In one of her dances, she has a solo. Everyone does a pose on the floor while she does a triple turn and a few other steps.

Rock climbing course

Mike and I are both advisers for Ashlee's venturing group. We just finished a rock climbing, repelling, and belaying class. I am learning to belay in this picture while Mike is climbing. Ashlee took the course too, but with her broken ankle she just had to watch the climbing part. She loves to rock climb and rappel and has done it many times in the outdoors too, so it was hard for her to not participate.

Ashlee's cast removal

Ashlee got her cast off this past Thursday, just 2 weeks after her surgery.

She's anticipating what her leg will look like as he's finishing up. The first thing that she did after we got home was to go shave her leg! She was also surprised how much muscle she had lost.

She now has a removable boot. She's supposed to take it off three times a day and move her ankle around. She starts physical therapy this Wednesday and will be in therapy for four weeks. She can begin putting weight on her foot in about three weeks and most likely walking in five. Ashlee has never once complained through this whole thing, but I do know that she really misses gymnastics and can't wait to go back to workout and also to teach.

Tyler

About a week ago, Tyler was looking under the couch for something. There was a pencil on the floor and some how the sharpened point poked into his cheek with a lot of pressure. The earaser part of the pencil must have pushed against the couch leg or carpet. He came running to me screaming and he had a deep punture wound in his left cheek. We scrubbed it with a new toothbrush to try to help prevent permanent color. (When the color goes deep into the skin it is like a tattoo and is permanent.) It seems to be healing nicely, but you can still see the pencil color on his left cheek. It does look a little bit like a freckle so it won't really be a big deal, but I do hope it's not so deep that it's permanent.