Week in Review...

Last Saturday Rick took the kids to a park...they had lots of fun playing in the sunshine...

Jacob went into the photo booth at the Blue and Gold Carnival last weekend and forgot to show me this cute pic...

Monday night was spent at the park for FHE, I left to go to the store and came home to find out that Ashlyn had hurt her knee. She jumped off of the swings and landed on her knees on some curbing. She swelled up pretty big, poor girl. I took her to urgent care the next day and they took x-rays and let us know that she had broken her patella (kneecap). We then scheduled a visit with a pediatric orthopedic dr for Thursday. The dr let us know that she should heal just fine while wearing a knee immobilizing brace. We spent lots of time at the drs this week, some of these appts I had to bring several daycare kids with me. It was a true test of my patience:) Luckily we all survived! It's a good thing that I didn't cancel my daycare kids because our freezer died on us and so we had to buy a new (used) freezer so we didn't lose all of our food again. Whew, what a week!! Ashlyn is healing and even went back to school on Friday. At one of our appts, there was this older man waiting with us and he was very friendly. He told Ashlyn that she should "milk" this injury. He's like, "you probably get to lay on the couch and your mom brings you all your meals right?" haha! He told her to tell all of her friends that she may be slower than them, but that she was really ahead of them (because she can get lots of help from others) we all laughed. He was cute!

Waiting, waiting, waiting....

We had Activity days at our house and we made these cute Valentines Wreaths, the girls were all very concerned about Ashlyn. They're all sweet girls! Her school teacher is a good friend of mine and had all of the kids in her class draw get well cards for her, they were so sweet!!

Here she is reading all of her cards, she felt so loved!! They even donated lots of "z bucks" which is their school money system in their classroom. She was really happy they did that! haha!

We also had New Beginnings this week where Haley got to introduce her little sister! It was really cute, Haley presented her with this crown that had lots of things on it that Ashlyn likes....like the books Tennis Shoes for the Nephites, the series Unfortuate events on Netflix, her favorite Book of Mormon hero is Teancum. It was super cute!

Our neighbor Savannah made up this song for New Beginnings and I just loved it! So super cute! 

We left right after it was done because Ashlyn was newly injured and as soon as we got out to the parking lot the power went out! I was so glad that we had left when we did!
The next day we were able to go to the dr and get her knee immobilizer which has helped her heal so fast! She's already starting to put a little bit of weight on her foot and almost has no pain! Yay!!

All of the neighborhood kids have been coming over to spend time with Ashlyn, they miss her playing at the park!

Always smiling!!

On Friday Jacob had an Ellis Island simulation, his "family" made the mistake of saying that they were going to California when they were supposed to be going to New York so they got deported! So sad! This was something Jacob will never forget, living history!

Ashlyn also went to school for the first time on Friday...she said that she got lots of help from her friends! She felt very loved.

We are very nervous about Abby going to preschool next year because she still has such a hard time with primary. One of my friends is going to be teaching preschool next year out of her home and so we are starting a pre-preschool for Abby. She will go 1 hour a week and just play and get used to being away from me. Her first time was on Friday and she had lots of anxiety leading up to it, and she cried as soon as I dropped her off:(. I had to pry her off of me and run out the door. My friend texted me later that she had only cried for about 2 minutes and then she had become a little chatterbox!! I was so relieved!! She did great!! I'm so happy!! Hopefully this will continue to go well, and then she can hopefully be successful in preschool next year!