Update on the family :)

Just wanted to fill everyone in on the exciting and not so exciting things happening in our family. Recently we've been able to line the pockets of quite a few doctors in our area. :) After Emm's baptism in August I had to get my tonsils out. It wasn't too terrible, but shortly after I got off the pain medication for that, I was walking up the stairs at the school with the kids and jammed my toe into the next stair and ended up breaking my big toe. It hurt so bad! I went to the dr and they put me in a big boot and on more pain medication.

Then we had some fun things happen - Andrew started Soccer and Connor has continued playing (and completely LOVING) football! Josh decided to be Andrew's soccer coach this year so it has been really fun for both of them to spend a little time together. Josh is actually a really good soccer coach. The boys have progressed a ton in soccer this year and are having a lot of fun. I had a couple of moms tell me that they hope that he will coach again next year. I know Andrew would totally love it. Connor is doing really well in football. It is his favorite sport by far. His coach tells Josh all the time how much he enjoys having Connor on the team and how much he contributes to the team.

But, we couldn't go for too long without paying those doctors again! Connor was at football practice and broke his arm. Josh and I both saw him after a play and he was holding his arm funny. He didn't say anything - coach saw him and asked if his arm was ok and Connor said yes. So they kept on playing. Josh and I both kept wondering if we should go on the field and see if his arm really was ok, but in football the last thing your kid wants you doing is babying them, so we didn't. He kept on playing defensive end again and again. Finally coach looked over again and said, "Rolfe, you still holding your arm?" So he called a water break and checked out Connor's arm. As soon as Josh and I saw it we started loading him up to take him to the dr. I took him to the clinic, they took one look at his forearm and told me they couldn't do anything for me that I would need to go to the ER. So we did - Connor had a compound fracture - they gave him morphine immediately when we got to the hospital and then had to sedate him to set the arm again.
He was a brave kid. I was quite impressed with him. He didn't even cry over his arm being broken until we got in the car to go to the hospital. We had to go back Monday to get his final cast and have them xray the arm again. They said it wasn't set quite right so they cut his orginial cast and bent the arm a little bit more to try and get a better match for the bones. We have to go back again today to get another xray to see how it is healing now. Hopefully everything is going to be ok today and Connor won't have to get pins in his arm. That would be the next step they said. Poor guy. His coach couldn't believe that he could still keep playing after having a compound fracture in his arm. He gave Connor a captains badge the next week (a captains badge is a decal they can put on their jersey when they've done an exceptional job at something). Connor was pretty excited to earn his captains badge.

And last of all....we have a new addition to our family.

Big Commander Coda was born August 7 and joined our family Sept 16th. He is the cutest little puppy. I never thought I would enjoy having a dog, but he has been such a good little dog and so fun for the kids to have.

James now has a playmate all day long, but poor Coda is pulled and dragged all around the house and in the backyard. James loves having Coda dig in the sandbox with him, but gets a little irritated when Coda knocks down his sandcastles. He's growing really fast and learning all the family rules. It's been a fun experience. I had nightmares before we got him and LOTS of anxiety over trying to decide how this was all going to work out, but now that he is part of our family it's been a lot better than my dreams. :) He's a pretty mild puppy and is pretty much house trained and totally crate trained. He's still little enough that he won't go down any stairs so the kids are constantly deciding where he wants to be and dragging him all over the place. It's been a fun new thing. :)