Cast Signing Party

When Kyra broke her elbow our good friend Lynda sent her a get well gift.  It was awesome!  It was everything we needed to have a cast signing/ice cream party (she lives in Atlanta so the ice cream came via gift card).  She sent invitations, all the toppings, the cones, and even markers. 

The set-up.  Looks yummy huh?

He couldn't stay out of the spoons!

She fell asleep on the couch about an hour before party time!

She loves ice cream, especially when it has sprinkles and cherries on it!!!!

See that cherry!

Most of the partiers.  Unfortunately, there isn'ta good shot of everyone, so I'm posting the one with me looking at the camera :)

She is so ready to ride her scooter and bike!

And well if that isn't the cutest and orneriest face you've ever seen I'd like to see what is!!!!

An update on Kyra's arm....

We went to the doctor on Monday and she got the cast off.  The x-rays show the bone is healing nicely.  So, she has to wear a sling for the next 2 weeks, limit "high risk/impact" activities for the next 4 weeks (hello?!? I think the cast was easier to make that happen!) and then sees the doctor again in 8 weeks.  She is in no pain which is a wonderful thing, but makes it so hard for her to understand she can't ride her bike, play on the tire swing, ride her scooter, etc etc etc.....

Indiana Trip, finally :) (otherwise known as picture overload)

I finally have a moment to put some (a lot) of pics up from our trip to Indiana.  We've had a "challenging" couple of weeks around here.  As you know, Kyra broke her elbow two weekends ago.  Last weekend my dad was hospitalized with blood clots in both lungs.  He is home and doing better, but very scary and still more questions than answers.  This past week Kyra had her follow-up appointment (in Denver) for her elbow.  It looks to be healing very well and she should have the cast off and pins out a week from Monday (little one's do heal VERY quickly!).   Back to Indiana pics  :)

This playground was near Aunt Debbie's house and was HUGE (obviously) and tons of fun!

Their favorite slide

Climbing, climbing, always climbing....I could post a whole diatribe on how strange it is to me that Kyra climbs as much and as well as she does and it was when she was doing something very safe that she busted her elbow....I won't, but looking at these pics hones in on those thoughts for me :) 

Sliding

If only there were volume to pictures, you'd hear nothing but squeals of delight from this boy!

He loved the slide

So much fun!

Kyra convinced me to go on it first, then Aunt Debbie....To say it went a lot faster than I was expecting (or Aunt Debbie) would be an extreme understatement :)

Going home from the playground does NOT make us happy :)

Playing on the iPad with sweet Libby

Lovin' on and playin' with his Mamaw

So good to see Mamaw!

Aunt Debbie took us to this indoor playground.  It was awesome!  The kids climbed up and down on this structure too many times.  They just loved it! The shadow on the left is Liam and the one in the middle is Kyra.

Had lunch at this park in Salina, KS on the way home.  Parks were our best friends on the long drive there and back :)

The back of my car :)

The passenger seat :)

I had a pic of the backseat, but it didn't upload....Imagine the biggest mess you can.  Ok, now you've seen what the backseat looked like!  But, we went to the carwash and managed to get it all clean again!

Easter

I, unfortunately, didn't get any pics of them with my camera, just my phone.  So, here they are on Easter. 

Handsome boy checking out his things

Sweet girl....She's very into posing these days :)

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My sweet girl was climbing up to get on the monkey bars at the playground Friday evening and fell.  She was holding on to the top rung and flipped over it and twisted on the way down.  The result was a broken funny bone a little above the elbow.  Unfortunately, it required a trip to Children's Hospital in Denver (about 100 miles away) that night to have 3 pins put in it and this pretty pink sparkly cast.  It was long night/day, but she's home and improving daily.  Once she lets me out of her sight for more than a few minutes, I'll post those Easter and Indiana trip pictures!

Easter Egg Dying

I know Easter was a few weeks ago, but we left to go see our Indiana family 2 days after Easter so I didn't have time to get Easter pictures posted beforehand.  So, here are pictures of us dying eggs the night before....

Playing ball in the backyard with Auntie Amy

She had fun. But was done after about 4 eggs....

This was the look on his face just about the whole time.  He wanted to put his hands in the dye, drink the dye or throw the eggs in the cups.  Maybe next year he'll understand a little better!

he did like seeing them in the cups changing colors though!

Pictures of Easter day are on my phone so I'll upload them later....I'll also post some pics of our trip in the next day or two when I get them off my phone and off the camera!

No words necessary!