Category: Family (Page 3 of 26)

This was taken 2 years ago… he looks just as thrilled to wear it again this time around. 😉

If you recall, about 2 years ago Tim had a run in with Gout in his big toe.  He had to wear the boot and hobbled around for quite a few weeks.  It did eventually subside and we stored the boot away (just in case).

Well, he had another flare up this past month.  It was a relatively short bout this time, but in the process of trying to stay off of his toes when walking he managed to sprain/bruise the outside edge of his foot.  It’s been quite painful and by evening he pretty much can’t walk at all.   He told me this morning that the pain has moved from the edge of his foot up to his ankle now (due to walking weird I suppose!).  Of course, the silver lining in this is that his toe is feeling pretty much all better.  Now if only his ankle would heal he’d be back to normal!

Jen and I went to see the Newsies on Saturday at the Orpheum Theater!   We saw it was coming a while back and ordered tickets months ago.  I loved the movie growing up so I was curious how it would compare.  It was definitely different, with MUCH more music than the original (looking back the movie only had like 4-5 songs…) but just as much wonderful dancing.  The biggest difference was that the newspaper reporter was a woman.   I actually didn’t care for her character at all.  She was the one negative for me in the musical–found her abrasive.  Not quite the quality you want for a main character… 😉  But otherwise it was delightful.  It’s always fun to go to a really good musical!

Tim stayed home with the kids.  Maddie had been a under the weather the past couple of days and had been running a fever.  She was apparently REALLY unhappy while I was gone, and by the time I got home her fever had spiked to almost 104 even with medicine.  So, I got back in the van and drove her to Urgent Care.  We were almost positive that it was an ear infection, but isn’t anything terribly serious, but I also knew the next day was a Sunday so she would have to wait another day before being able to get on medicine.   So off we went.  She was actually a peach while we were there and we were in and out within an hour.  And sure enough, it was an ear infection so we got her started on amoxicillin and by the end of the next day she was acting almost 100% better.

So, that is also why we were able to do so much fun Valentine’s stuff on Sunday.  We had to stay home from church.  I’m sure you thought to yourself, how did she get all that stuff done around church?  😉  Now you know.

On Saturday Nana & Bumpa came over for a visit.  The kids has TONS of fun (I’m pretty sure they wore them completely out!).  We had a wonderful time relaxing and chatting and doing random fun things.  Sherlock even came along, which made Josiah very happy.  Maddie seemed to like Sherlock as well, although not too close… 😉 Here is a list of some of the fun things we did throughout the afternoon:

• Nana & Chloe built a totem-pole-snowman
• We enjoyed Fajitas for supper
• We all watched Disney short films on netflix
• Nana & I watched a video of dogs wearing boots for the first time and laughed until we cried
• Bumpa & Josiah worked on puzzles

• Nana & Chloe did some crafting
• Bumpa played hide and seek (over and over with the kids… haha!)
• They got to see our amazing new kitchen 😉
• Nana tried and tried to get Maddie to smile at her… to no avail…
• We watched a couple episodes of How to Train Your Dragon:  Race to the edge
• Nana & I played piano duets together from the same book that she and her Mom used to play.  (That was so much fun!)