Who knew a wrist could be such a PAIN!

The 1st thing we heard when we picked Corrine up for sibling camp last Saturday was that she had hurt her wrist during the week and she was still favoring it. We went to our friends house for the day and she just wasn't herself. She was so tired and her wrist hurt that she didn't even want to play with Meredith. At lunch before heading home she was in tears. It just wasn't her. Her wrist was swollen and tender to the touch.
When we got home that evening we decided her wrist needed to be xrayed. I took her to the ER since Urgent Care was closed and they are so painfully slow that we would have sat for hours before being seen.
At the ER they did 3 x-rays and played with it. The xrays didn't have any obvious brakes, but the ER doctor said that it could still be a buckle fractor and to go see our pediatrician if it was still hurting her in a few days. They sent her home with a wrist brace.
Monday morning she went to her 1st day of school with her brace on.

Fast forward to Friday afternoon and her wrist was still bothering her, so we headed to our pediatrician. He was thinking it was probably not broken, just a bruise. He decided to go look at the xray report. When he came back in he said the radiologist report said there was widening of the growth plate, which would indicate that she had broken the growth plate and it needed to be casted.
Corrine started smiling right away when she heard that. It's fun to get a cast, until a week into it and it stinks, itches, you can't shower or swim and you're sick of it.
He went ahead and put a short arm cast on right then in the office. He told us it'd be on for 3-4 weeks, but he'd get back to us the next week if we needed to do something different.

 Monday morning after the kids go to school the doctor called. He had talked with another doctor and we had a new plan. We needed to go back to the ER, get the cast cut off, then go to radiology and get her wrist re-xrayed. If her left wrist growth plate showed widening, then they'd xray her right wrist. If they both showed widening then it was just her, if only her left showed widening then it was indeed broken, and if the left one on it's own showed no widening then it wasn't broken. If it was broken she'd be in a short arm cast for 4-5 weeks!

And her xray showed NO widening of the growth plate. So her left wrist was not broken after all. She started wearing her brace again.

Corrine luckily took all the changes in stride. She was excited for the cast, but then bummed she couldn't swim that night, and she was kind of sad to get her newly signed cast taken off, but I think she is grateful that she isn't in pain anymore and she can do anything she wants.

1st Day of School 2012

Wow did this summer fly by! We had a really fun and full summer, but all good summers must come to an end.

School officially started Thursday August 16th.

Simeon is in 6th grade this year, which is his last year in elementary school. He has the same teacher as last year Mrs. Gordon. He really likes her. Since he has the same teacher 2 years in a row he has some of the same kids in his class. His class moved so this year he's in room 18 right towards the main doors to the school. He is going to play in the advanced band this year.

Corrine and Ammon's 1st Day of school Monday August 20th.

Corrine is in 4th grade. Because they do combined grades and there was an extra class of 3rd graders coming into the combined classes they had to redo the classes. Corrine got a brand new teacher this year Mrs. Scheur. Her classroom in #16 which is on the side of the school facing the 6th grade grass area. In her class she has our neighbor Joe Fischer (the 1st time together). Joseph Spencer (from church), Mia McDonald and Lauryn Varo. Lauryn was very excited to have Corrine in her class this year.

Ammon is in 2nd grade. He has Mrs. Hynes. She used to team teach when Simeon had her, but now she is a full day teacher. She used to be a reading resource teacher half day, so she is very strong in reading. Ammon has Will Dickson, Andrew Lopez and alot of girls in his class. Thankfully they have kept the 3 classes for his grade, so the classes are staying small. He is in room 12 which is right by the spacenet on the side of the school.

Ammon was so excited when Uncle Josh gave him this real Marine backpack this summer. It instantly became his school backpack.

Coronado

We decided on our last day in San Diego to go hit the beach again. This time we headed to Coronado near the Hotel Del to soak up the sun.

The kids soon discovered that the ocean was full of jelly fish body parts. There were pieces of jelly fish on the beach too. Because of the jelly fish the kids didn't want to play in the water very much. Who could blame them, getting touched by the stingers could hurt.

The kids did lots of digging in the sand instead. They loved that they could make huge holes for them to fit in so easily.

I decided that I couldn't be at the beach twice in one week and not boogie board. I couldn't convince any kids or Johann  to come out with me because of the jelly fish, so I went solo. I didn't last long though. The jelly fish parts,sea weed and sea grass was freaking me out and I came in after only 3 waves.

Johann and I went on a walk and were lucky to find a couple of whole sand dollars. One we saw just laying on the beach and the other we saw tumbling in the tide and snatched it before the tide could wash it back out.

Johann spent alot of time standing in the water looking out at the waves wearing the straw hat Jake gave him. He told us he couldn't come in because his feet were stuck in the sand!

I love being at the beach. The warmth of the sun and sand and the sound of the waves makes me want to move back to the coast.

Liberty Park & Point Loma

We started the day off at Liberty Park near the San Diego Airport. We grabbed In-N-Out near there and ate before heading to the park to play. Rebecca was all into posing for me on the dolphin and running around the playground with Zach. She loves to look at the picture of her and Luke going down the slide and say "He's staring at me mom!"

After playing at the park we headed up to the visitors center at Point Loma. Our kids were excited to do the Junior Ranger Program there and earn another badge. All the cousins decided to do it too. It took a long time for Camille & Simeon to finish their badges since they had the most to do. All the cousins were SUPER excited to earn their badges. This was Rebecca's 1st badge earned and she was over the moon excited!

After getting their badges we headed down to the tidepools. When we got there the parking lot was packed. Luckily we were able to get a parking spot. The tide was at it's lowest point when we got there so we were able to explore more of the area. The kids found lots of crabs to look at. 

Ammon and Tanner started playing in the water more than exploring. Tanner was really funny. He didn't want to get his socks wet, so he took them off and put them in his pocket, but kept on his tennis shoes!
Simeon & Sam joined in the fun. At first they just were getting their feet wet, but that wasn't enough. They wanted to get their knees wet, then it was shorts getting wet, splashing each other and finally our boys were wet up to their armpits and smiling from ear to ear. Rebecca wanted to join the fun in the waves, but she didn't want to get as wet as the boys.

As we left we got a quick picture of our family. We have a picture of our family way back when in a similar area when Simeon was 3 and Corrine was still a baby.

The cemetery on top of the hill in Point Loma is beautiful. The cemetery looks down on the bay and is a fitting place for those who were in the Navy to be laid to rest.

 

Cabrillo State Park in Point Loma is a beautiful peaceful place. You can see so much from up there. Even though your near the busy city, when your here you're a step away from it all.

Mission Beach

Today we headed to Mission Beach to play in the sand, jump in the waves and soak up the warm sun with all our cousins, aunts, uncles, Nani & Papa. This was Rebecca's 1st time at the beach and she was in love with all the sand, but the waves were a bit intimidating to her. The last time we were at the beach Simeon had a cast on his right arm that couldn't get wet, and we promised him we'd get back to the beach and we did it just took us over 4 years!

Simeon, Ammon and Tanner were big into boogie boarding. They spent alot of time in the water catching the waves. They were also busy digging a tunnel that they could fit through. They got the tunnel made and Ammon crawled through in, Simeon sat through it and then it got walked on it and caved in. They were bummed, but went with it and decided to get buried in the hole instead.

I forgot how much a love to beach. I love burying my feet in the warm sand and feeling the sun warm me to the core!