Bone v. Metal

Forgot to include a picture of the mysterious "double slide". We went by the school on Saturday to reenact the crime. Matthew finally admitted to the Orthopedic doctor that he was pretending to be Indiana Jones and jump over the slide. Yes, it's metal.

Matthew's 1st "Big Break"

Well, it has certainly been an interesting week at our house. Wednesday, Mark received a call from the school nurse saying that Matthew had fallen on the playground and was upset about the fall, had a scrape on his hip, and had hurt his arm. She said he seemed well enough to go back to class, so he did. Come to find out later, he went back to class only to go to P.E. and complete a fitness challenge which included running back and forth across the gym 24 times.

His arm was hurting when he got home and he had a slight fever, but he was so tired he ate dinner and fell asleep. We woke him up to finish his homework, and put him back to bed. We went back and forth all evening on whether to get the arm Xray'd. 50/50 chance and this time we should have gone. On Thursday, Mark took him to get an Xray, then off to get a cast. Buckle fracture of the Radius (bubble near the end of the larger bone)

It has taken a couple of days for everything to sink in, no baseball, no light saber fighting, no soccer, no gymnastics. He is counting the days until October 9th.

Wildcat Baseball

Matthew decided he wanted to play baseball again this fall and today was his first game. Thanks to the late afternoon wind yesterday, the fields were in good condition today. Matthew loves to catch, even in 90 degree heat. Matthew is #14.

Playing 3rd...

Catching...

Hanna Pajama Day!

In honor of Tropical Storm Hanna, we declared yesterday a pajama day. We also planned ahead for the rainy day and had a special surprise for the boys that would keep them occupied. They have been doing great handling school, baseball, soccer, getting up in the morning, getting homework done, getting to bed on time, etc. (Ok, Matthew wore us down and we caved.)

Meet the Lego Star Wars Republic Gunship (1034 pieces)

and the Lego Star Wars MT-T (1326 pieces)

We are very proud of Matthew as he completed his with very little help from mom and dad. He finished the last parts of it this morning, almost 12 hours of Lego building!

Andrew slaving in the Droid factory

Last day of Summer

If you follow the pool calendar it is! It is usually crazy at the pool on the last day so we tried a new strategy, show up at 4 pm. It worked! It was crowded at first, but most folks were gone after the kid swim at 4:45, then we had the whole pool. Andrew was almost brave enough to go down the slide today. Here are a few shots that will help us get through winter to Memorial Weekend next year...

Matthew's Cannonball

Andrew's Cannonball

Matthew helping Andrew swim back and forth to the side of the pool. Andrew can't quite stand up in this end of the pool.


Bye Pool!