So last month my sister Krista tagged me with a photo tag trying to get me started on my blog. The rules were to go to "My pictures" and click on the 7th folder and then select the 5th picture and tell about the picture you've found.
This picture brought back a lot of fun memories. First let me tell you the story behind it... Lauryn, Abby and Abby's friend Jaylee somehow thought it would be fun to jump off of the top of Jake's bunk bed onto pillows and blankets. (by the way, they were doing this while I was distracted with something). Anyway, Lauryn and Jaylee apparently had successful jumps, but Abby on the other hand is one of the clumsiest people on the planet, so when she jumped she missed the padding and landed on the hard floor. I heard a blood curdling scream so I went running in to find the scene of the accident. Now Abby is a verrrry dramatic little girl so her cry sounded the same as it would have if she had fallen down and got a tiny scrape on her knee (like she was being murdered). I knew it was serious though when the same scream lasted until I was able to get her into the doctor. So as you can see from the picture she ended up being in not only a cast but a wheelchair as well. She was in the wheelchair for a good 4 weeks...which she hated, and the cast for another 4 weeks after that, So needless to say we had some good times with that.
I'm beginning to think that Abby isn't the only clumsy one in the family, let's just count up the injury's...Abby broke her leg and when she was about 3 she was climbing on the couch and fell off the back of it onto the tile and fractured her elbow.
Jake thought it would be fun to surf down the stairs on a crib mattress. Well, the mattress ended up stopping and Jake flew over it and landed hard at the bottom of the landing breaking his arm (cool black cast though).
Just this past Monday Ava was walking down the stairs and tripped over her own two feet landing on her neck and shoulder. Well luckily Dave's brother Steve is and orthopedic PA, so when ever we have such injuries, (which seems to be constantly) we can get them checked out by their nice uncle. Ava ended up not breaking anything, thankfully, but she was really sore from the fall.
As I was carrying Ava back to the room, there were a few people watching us in the hallway, and Steve said "uh oh, someone call child protective services", which was funny, but if people didn't know us they just might think that we beat our kids. So anyway maybe one of these days our kids will learn to stop being monkeys and start being more cautious. So in the actual picture above we were at Steve and Ruthann's house and the kids were playing with their cousins Belle and Macie, or at least trying to play anyway. Thanks for the memories Kris!
3 comments:
Hey so I see you figured out the picture thing. That's good. I sent you an invite to my blog in your email...cause mine is private...maybe you already knew that. But my address is there too so you can add it to your list of blogs.
Funny, funny--well, I guess not so funny when you're going through it! Your kids are little monkeys, that's for sure! Who knows, maybe they'll be world famous athletes one day--at least you would get a payback from all of the turmoil! Thanks for doing the tag!
What a cute picture. I'm glad you now have all of the injuries documented!
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