Can't Believe Peyton is 8!!

I Can't believe I have an 8 year old!!  Doesn't he look so grown up and handsome?  This picture was on the morning of his Birthday.  His school had a minimum day because of parent teacher conferences.  After school the kids went to my friend Teresa's house while Tim and I met with his teacher.  He has worked SO hard this year in school and is doing great.  We are so proud of him!

After grabbing the kids we rushed down to Petaluma.....we had told him that we were going to celebrate with Grandma and Grandpa.  He was happy with that, but he kept asking if he could invite Billy and Boss his friends that live close by.  Well little did he know Grandma and I had been planning a surprise party for him and a bunch of his friends from Petaulma were already at Grandmas house waiting to surprise him!  He was so excited they were all there....I didn't get a picture of his face but it was hilarious!  We had some pizza, cake then opened presents.  Then Tim and I took the boys to see the Star Wars movie in 3-D.  It was a great day!!      

Bianca, Boss, Owen, and Jack (Billy was on his way;)

Does that look like a face that got what he wanted?  Darthmal Mask

Matching double-sided light saber.....his face KILLS me!

Here is the cake Grandma made.....thanks for everything you did for me!!

Aren't they so COOL?

Opening a few more the next day from Grandma and Grandpa and uncle Kevin.

 On Saturday we took the kids to the Wildlife Museum at Petaluma High (where Tim went).  A friend of the family is over the department and got us an awesome VIP tour.  We had such a great time.....until they pulled out the snakes!!  The kids loved it.  Me, NOT SO MUCH!  But I was brave and still got a bunch of pictures;)  My kids apparently did not get my fear of snakes!    Thanks Grandma and Kim for an awesome day!

And thats a wrap.....WHEW!

Gethsemane

I am teaching this song with sign language to the kids in our Primary.  They have really loved learning it.  My kids also love this song and are always wanting me to pull it up on You Tube so that they can listen to it.  I think it is a beautiful song with a great message.  Very good for Easter:) 

 

To listen you need to scroll down to the bottom of the screen and pause my playlist.....

The Broken Foot Story

One day after school Peyton and our next door neighbor were jumping on the trampoline.  This was their warm-up activity before starting on homework.  I was in the house and could hear Peyton screaming in pain.....the kind of pain that when you hear it you know something bad just happened.  I came outside to see how bad it really was.  I could tell from the way he couldn't step on it, it was bad but I tried to tell him that I have done this many times to my foot, that it was just a sprain, and that he just needed to walk it off.

     Well I got him to start on his homework and was really hoping that with that distraction and a little time he would be fine.  After finishing his homework hours later, he came limping/hopping back out to the living room and I thought "OH BOY, it's bad"!  I had him sit in the recliner so I could see how it looked and by this time it was pretty swollen :(  I felt SO bad! Definitely not feeling like the mother of the year.  When Tim got home we were debating on what to do, is it fine or is it broken?  Our Bishop is an ER doctor so I called to get his opinion about that to do.  He was out and about and was really close to our house so he offered to stop by to take a look.  His advice was that since the pain was so close to where the growth plates are, he really needed to get X-rays. 

Here is the tricky thing about X-rays and growth plates.  Growth plates are made of cartilage so they don't even show up in the X-ray..... His Dr. decided that he fractured his growth plate which is technically just a really bad sprain because it isn't bone, but that it will actually heal slower than a bone does.  This green cast was his first cast and the Dr. told us to come back in three weeks to get it taken off.  So three weeks later we went back so excited to be done with this only to be told that it was still swollen and hurting where it shouldn't be hurting:(  We were SO disappointed to have to get another cast for three more weeks.....I honestly wanted to cry.  When Pey came to the realization that he would now have it on over his Birthday he just lost it.  He had big plans of going to Sky High (a big trampoline place) with his friends for his birthday.  I told him we would go to Petaulma and celebrate his birthday with Grandma and Grandpa.....that definitely helped the situation:)

Here is cast #2....since the Dr. could tell how bummed out he was to have to get another one, she asked the guy who did the casting let him choose two colors.  Originally it was 49ers colors, then he discovered that it was also Darthmal colors and thought it was totally cool:)  When we went back to get it off he was actually sad to see it go and so they gave it to him as a souvenir.  Lucky me....how do I ever get rid of that?