Mari has a cast that comes up over her knee. We have an appt on the 18th and they are going to take off the cast, see how things look, and then hopefully transition to a boot for a few days.
Initially, Mari wanted to be carried everywhere. Eventually she learned to crawl, and yesterday she started walking. Today she returned to school, and everything went OK. She can do just about anything she wants to, sometimes she just doesn’t want to.
Elliot has figured the swings out, which will hopefully make our lives easier.
Mari was running into our house yesterday and as she made the turn to come up the stairs she fell and ‘got all twisted up.’ She cried for a while, so we decided we had better take her to the Dr, and sure enough, she broke her leg. Right now she has a temporary cast. She will see an Orthopedic next week for the final judgement.
Andrew lost his first tooth tonight. He was very excited and might still be awake upstairs.
I apologize for the red-eye here. I tried to clean it up, but was having some serious issues.
This year we spent Easter in Kansas City, with Mary, Casey, Joe, Colin, and Luke. We had a great time. The kids were worn out and Elliot and Mari both fell asleep in the car on the way home. The weekend included basketball, life, soccer, a farmstead, s’mores, egg dyeing, egg hunting, church, and grilling.
It’s official – after two and a half years of speculation, Andrew has a loose tooth. As expected, it is one of his bottom, front teeth. He is excited about the loose tooth, but not about the pain.
Elliot is officially finished nursing. For the past few weeks he had still been nursing before bed and occasionally during the day. His form had degenerated and Susan didn’t think he even wanted to nurse anymore. So they other night while he was ‘nursing’ she said, “Elliot, do you want to stop nursing?” He said, “Yes,” and that was that.
Last night I asked Susan how she felt about it and she said “It was kind of anticlimactic.” I agree. After almost six and a half years an important phase of her motherhood and our parenthood has come to an end. It was only a year ago that we night-weaned Elliot, and now he is ready to be off on his own, well, almost.
Yesterday Andrew received his first Capoeira cord. He was really excited.
Today Susan asked Andrew what his favorite bands are:
Elliot slept until 9:15 this morning. Not too shabby, but tomorrow should be a rude awakening for the kids when they have to get up early for school.
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Yesterday we got out for our first bike ride of the year. We left with the intention of checking out the flooding the has followed all of the snow we had and it didn’t take us long to find it. The best part of the ride was the ride home. On the way there Andrew was on the tag-along and Mari and Elliot were in the trailer. On the way home Andrew rode his bike and Mari rode on the tag-along, both for the first time. Well, it was not Andrew’s first time on his bike, but his first time riding it a significant distance.
