Here are some videos. They are separate from the posts cause it was easier to organize for me. But the posts explain better.
Silas and Helen playing - I love how he looks at the paci and then at her, Hey?
Feeding the neighbors cow
Just making faces and noises
Ok, he is laughing really hard here so just ignore the fact that you can see me more than him.
"Sweet baby" coming over to visit. He or she loves us :)
His only word - AH! or DAH! or BAH!
He has learned to scoot in this last week. Even from the videos you can see how much faster he has gotten. His method has changed too. It started out as a wiggle and roll in a zig zag til he got to where he was going and now it is straight up army style
Baby racing
May 11, 2010
May 10, 2010
April Update
Alright so I shouldn't have gotten so behind. I'll just add some pictures and videos and captions. I think the captions will really let you know whats going on. I will work on May's post soon so that it is ready in MAY LOL
April started out with visitors too! Debbie aka Grammy came to visit for a week and it was FANTASTIC! It's so nice to have family in town because we miss everyone a lot. Silas loves Grammy too! You can tell by the pictures that he loves it when she plays with him.
Silas was making this face for about a week but it's gone now
Playing with Grammy
No wonder he loves playing with her
Grammy wishing she could take him home! (And then Gramzy would be able to see him too)
Silas started having more trouble in the nursery at church. He doesn't cry when I drop him off but he will be playing having a good ol time and then BAM he starts crying - really crying. So they come to get me and usually I figure that he is hungry or tired and the solution for both is nursing. We are trying to work on it but it's hard to fix if you don't know the cause. I thought maybe it was because he doesn't spend time away from us but then he did great with Debbie. She could take him pretty much any where for 3 or 4 hours and he didn't care. He is so great every other day and time that it's really hard to complain. I am really ready for him to start sleeping through the night also. I know that it will eventually happen but it is tough to wait for it! I guess maybe my body has gotten more used to it now though because I am able to enjoy snuggling him when he falls back asleep. I know he won't be little forever and I LOVE those sweet sleepy hugs. It's hard to imagine that one day he will be a junior higher needing homework help!
We painted Silas room and hung up chair rail with the help of Grammy. There is the painted name thing that Megan and I worked on.
The poppy fields are in bloom. It's a good year! Last year we tried to take Aunt Windy and Ashley to see them and it was just a dirt field with 4 poppies - which we got yelled at for standing near! Here is what it should have looked like. They are SO bright!
7 months old - watch me grow album
www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2406336&id=5011339&l=dcb3c15df2
Nate's pins came out of his wrist - at home, before they were supposed to. The doctor told him to just take them out. It was freaky but actually made it feel a lot better. A few days later he had the surgery to remove all of them. Then Nate played Dr. and decided he would cut of his soft wrap/cast thing and take out his own stitches. And that darn Dr.! He didn't even give Nate a hard time for doing it - "Well, that makes my job easier." WHAT?! Man, now Nate is always gonna play Dr.!!!!!
Grossness
Sorry if that is graphic for you but if you know me then you know I can handle that stuff so ....you should have known it was coming hee hee!
And I started nannying for baby Helen. Well, she is almost a year old. I am just doing this til the end of the school year. Her regular nanny is my good friend Kathy who just had her baby girl, Maggie on May 6th :) It's been challenging but I think it does help me to prioritize so that is great! It's just grocery shopping that has had to be put off til the weekend. I prefer going during the week without the crowds. I know Debbie and Angie - "Push one cart and pull the other" Well not all of us are 1. super women and 2. crazy, yeah you guys are, don't deny it LOL If I get brave enough to take them one day then I am determined to do it with one cart. I suppose if I were one of the other Walters women this wouldn't be an option because I would be trying to feed so many mouths. If that day ever comes then I will be asking Nate to stay at home with the kids so I can go with just one or none. Anyways, point is that it is going well and of course it is a little more tiring. Helen really is sweet though!
She's cute, huh?
Little buddies
Always playing
Here is Maggie Grace
April started out with visitors too! Debbie aka Grammy came to visit for a week and it was FANTASTIC! It's so nice to have family in town because we miss everyone a lot. Silas loves Grammy too! You can tell by the pictures that he loves it when she plays with him.
Silas was making this face for about a week but it's gone now
Playing with Grammy
No wonder he loves playing with her
Grammy wishing she could take him home! (And then Gramzy would be able to see him too)
Silas started having more trouble in the nursery at church. He doesn't cry when I drop him off but he will be playing having a good ol time and then BAM he starts crying - really crying. So they come to get me and usually I figure that he is hungry or tired and the solution for both is nursing. We are trying to work on it but it's hard to fix if you don't know the cause. I thought maybe it was because he doesn't spend time away from us but then he did great with Debbie. She could take him pretty much any where for 3 or 4 hours and he didn't care. He is so great every other day and time that it's really hard to complain. I am really ready for him to start sleeping through the night also. I know that it will eventually happen but it is tough to wait for it! I guess maybe my body has gotten more used to it now though because I am able to enjoy snuggling him when he falls back asleep. I know he won't be little forever and I LOVE those sweet sleepy hugs. It's hard to imagine that one day he will be a junior higher needing homework help!
We painted Silas room and hung up chair rail with the help of Grammy. There is the painted name thing that Megan and I worked on.
The poppy fields are in bloom. It's a good year! Last year we tried to take Aunt Windy and Ashley to see them and it was just a dirt field with 4 poppies - which we got yelled at for standing near! Here is what it should have looked like. They are SO bright!
7 months old - watch me grow album
www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2406336&id=5011339&l=dcb3c15df2
Nate's pins came out of his wrist - at home, before they were supposed to. The doctor told him to just take them out. It was freaky but actually made it feel a lot better. A few days later he had the surgery to remove all of them. Then Nate played Dr. and decided he would cut of his soft wrap/cast thing and take out his own stitches. And that darn Dr.! He didn't even give Nate a hard time for doing it - "Well, that makes my job easier." WHAT?! Man, now Nate is always gonna play Dr.!!!!!
Grossness
Sorry if that is graphic for you but if you know me then you know I can handle that stuff so ....you should have known it was coming hee hee!
And I started nannying for baby Helen. Well, she is almost a year old. I am just doing this til the end of the school year. Her regular nanny is my good friend Kathy who just had her baby girl, Maggie on May 6th :) It's been challenging but I think it does help me to prioritize so that is great! It's just grocery shopping that has had to be put off til the weekend. I prefer going during the week without the crowds. I know Debbie and Angie - "Push one cart and pull the other" Well not all of us are 1. super women and 2. crazy, yeah you guys are, don't deny it LOL If I get brave enough to take them one day then I am determined to do it with one cart. I suppose if I were one of the other Walters women this wouldn't be an option because I would be trying to feed so many mouths. If that day ever comes then I will be asking Nate to stay at home with the kids so I can go with just one or none. Anyways, point is that it is going well and of course it is a little more tiring. Helen really is sweet though!
She's cute, huh?
Little buddies
Always playing
Here is Maggie Grace
May 09, 2010
March Summary
Snuggles before bedtime
We started off march with a few visitors from Florida :) Jason, Megan and Nathaniel came to visit us. Nate and Jason went down to the Masters Seminary for 3 days for the Shepherds Conference. They loved it of course! Megan and I were mainly inside with the boys because it was cold out still but we did get to do some reading and a fun project for Silas' room which you'll see. It was great to spend time with another wife to a seminary student and mommy to a boy! Nathaniel is just a few months older than Silas.
I don't have any pictures of their visit because of the next part.....:( I dropped the lap top which broke our hard drive so much so that the data is not recoverable. We had a friend from church look at it and it is a loss. This was really really hard for me 1. because I hate that I'm always the one to break things, embarrassing! 2. We had not backed up the computer since Silas was born so we lost a lot of his pictures and videos along with Nate's previous seminary work. My mom was so sweet when I called crying, she just let me be sad and tried to encourage me. I was terrified to call Nate. No one wants to say that they broke something so valuable. At first Nate seemed irritated but then my loving husband let me know that it was only an earthly possession and he loved me despite the fact that I'm clumsy.
Silas had his 6 month doctor visit. He weighed in at 20.5 lbs and was 28.5 inches tall. He is in the 96th percentile for height and 90th for weight. He also became official by getting his birth certificate lol He is growing like crazy and is a lot of fun! He started attempting to eat solid foods. He HATES baby food - he won't open his mouth after he realizes what it is so we have decided to do something called baby-led weaning. This basically involves giving him real food, whole and letting him go at it. He is getting better and better at it. He loves it if I help him eat by breaking off bites of food and giving it to him.
This link will get you to all of his watch me grow photos:
www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2406336&id=5011339&l=dcb3c15df2
(I can't get it to link up so you'll have to copy and paste it, sorry!)
Grammy is going in to feed him his first bite
gooey!
Still plenty of faces but mainly because he took too big of a bite
Quick bath to get rid of the sticky banana
Nate and I officially became Californians - WEIRD!
I decided that I like being crafty and so I've started several projects. I made the hanging name signs (with Megan's help), covered a diaper box so it looked nice for storage, painted and assembled a bird bath, started growing plants to hopefully put in a garden soon and made Nate framed art that he had liked at a store - I knew I could do it cheaper! It's been fun :)
Homemade-ish birdbath
And we got our first batch of chicks! We had some tragedies though - some just died, some drown, some almost drown and were rescued. So the statistics? We lost 13 out of 18. HORRIBLE! We couldn't figure out what was wrong with our set up. We gave them a huge box, kept it clean, blah blah blah In the end we realized that the woman who sold them to us, is a chicken murder, I mean she gave us sick chicks. She doesn't kept them in nice clean conditions so they got sick from coccidiosis. We love our 5 survivors though. They are growing really slow because of this also except one is huge. The others snuggle up next to it like it is a momma hen. It's pretty funny to watch them. We also got our second batch of chicks the first week of April and all have survived since we got them healthy :)
Swinging while we play with chicks
And we found out that Silas will have a new cousin in about 6 months. This one is not as likely to have red hair though! If you get a chance please pray for Christina and Anthony as poor Christina has been so sick. Fortunately I don't know what that is like but I have heard many times that it does make it harder to enjoy pregnancy and the end goal. Pray for her to feel better soon and if it is God's will for her to face "morning" sickness that He would help give her the right mindset through out her sufferings. We are so excited for this newest little one and that joy they will experience. Being a mom now, I am SO excited for our family and friends to experience this!
We started off march with a few visitors from Florida :) Jason, Megan and Nathaniel came to visit us. Nate and Jason went down to the Masters Seminary for 3 days for the Shepherds Conference. They loved it of course! Megan and I were mainly inside with the boys because it was cold out still but we did get to do some reading and a fun project for Silas' room which you'll see. It was great to spend time with another wife to a seminary student and mommy to a boy! Nathaniel is just a few months older than Silas.
I don't have any pictures of their visit because of the next part.....:( I dropped the lap top which broke our hard drive so much so that the data is not recoverable. We had a friend from church look at it and it is a loss. This was really really hard for me 1. because I hate that I'm always the one to break things, embarrassing! 2. We had not backed up the computer since Silas was born so we lost a lot of his pictures and videos along with Nate's previous seminary work. My mom was so sweet when I called crying, she just let me be sad and tried to encourage me. I was terrified to call Nate. No one wants to say that they broke something so valuable. At first Nate seemed irritated but then my loving husband let me know that it was only an earthly possession and he loved me despite the fact that I'm clumsy.
Silas had his 6 month doctor visit. He weighed in at 20.5 lbs and was 28.5 inches tall. He is in the 96th percentile for height and 90th for weight. He also became official by getting his birth certificate lol He is growing like crazy and is a lot of fun! He started attempting to eat solid foods. He HATES baby food - he won't open his mouth after he realizes what it is so we have decided to do something called baby-led weaning. This basically involves giving him real food, whole and letting him go at it. He is getting better and better at it. He loves it if I help him eat by breaking off bites of food and giving it to him.
This link will get you to all of his watch me grow photos:
www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2406336&id=5011339&l=dcb3c15df2
(I can't get it to link up so you'll have to copy and paste it, sorry!)
Grammy is going in to feed him his first bite
gooey!
Still plenty of faces but mainly because he took too big of a bite
Quick bath to get rid of the sticky banana
Nate and I officially became Californians - WEIRD!
I decided that I like being crafty and so I've started several projects. I made the hanging name signs (with Megan's help), covered a diaper box so it looked nice for storage, painted and assembled a bird bath, started growing plants to hopefully put in a garden soon and made Nate framed art that he had liked at a store - I knew I could do it cheaper! It's been fun :)
Homemade-ish birdbath
And we got our first batch of chicks! We had some tragedies though - some just died, some drown, some almost drown and were rescued. So the statistics? We lost 13 out of 18. HORRIBLE! We couldn't figure out what was wrong with our set up. We gave them a huge box, kept it clean, blah blah blah In the end we realized that the woman who sold them to us, is a chicken murder, I mean she gave us sick chicks. She doesn't kept them in nice clean conditions so they got sick from coccidiosis. We love our 5 survivors though. They are growing really slow because of this also except one is huge. The others snuggle up next to it like it is a momma hen. It's pretty funny to watch them. We also got our second batch of chicks the first week of April and all have survived since we got them healthy :)
Swinging while we play with chicks
And we found out that Silas will have a new cousin in about 6 months. This one is not as likely to have red hair though! If you get a chance please pray for Christina and Anthony as poor Christina has been so sick. Fortunately I don't know what that is like but I have heard many times that it does make it harder to enjoy pregnancy and the end goal. Pray for her to feel better soon and if it is God's will for her to face "morning" sickness that He would help give her the right mindset through out her sufferings. We are so excited for this newest little one and that joy they will experience. Being a mom now, I am SO excited for our family and friends to experience this!
March 23, 2010
Well, I'll admit it from the start. I dropped the lap top and it broke the hard drive. SO we are hoping that a friend is able to recover the data. If not, then Silas' 5 month is gone and unfortunately we haven't backed up the computer since he was born. Thankfully some stuff is on Facebook and I can pull it back off to have again (except for the 5th month). That was a really hard couple of days for me- I have been trying to focus on what God wants me to learn here - I need to be more careful and I didn't realize how much an earthly possession meant to me. If it had broken before Silas was born then I would have been sad but having all of his baby stuff on there is what broke my heart. However, I still have Silas! And God has been good too show me to live in the moment with him and cherish my time now. Yes, it's wonderful to look back but the present with him (and Him) is so sweet!
Here are some videos(that were still on the camera) to show what I mean!
Jumpin' Bean
Hi ME!
Giggles
Puppy Love
Here are some videos(that were still on the camera) to show what I mean!
Jumpin' Bean
Hi ME!
Giggles
Puppy Love
February 23, 2010
La la la la
Hmm I have the time to write at this moment but really my mind is kinda empty and not cause I'm super tired, it just is. And I've had so many things I've wanted to share lately! I'll try to just give a quick rundown on everyone here.
Twiggy: She is doing good and it still as cute and sweet as ever. We try and spend time with her so she isn't jealous. I usually take her on 1-2 walks a week or just a car ride if I'm just running one errand. I think it's good to get out and explore :) Here she is enjoying the sun on a warm day and sniffing the camera
Nate: Oh I'm sure he is ready to get rid of that cast! I think he has about 4 weeks left and then therapy. He is moving along with his school work. He did get an extension since he can't type or write really. He is still enjoying reading and it's fun to see him get excited over things he has never read before.
~Work has been going good too. Some of you may have gotten an email that said they finally shot down the test missile which is the whole point of this project so it's a pretty big deal.
~Matt has been coming over to help with the chicken coop and Nate directs him LOL Poor Matt - we do try to feed him!
Here is sweet moment with "dew two" - we call him that for some reason? He likes that noise!
Me: Doing good. Silas slept a few more nights all the way through! I'm settling into a routine with the house and taking care of Silas. I am starting the second semester of Biblical Counseling at the church but this time I have to take part of the class online since Nate can't take care of Silas while I'm gone. I'm working my way through Hebrews - I'm chapter 11 now and I've been learning some really great things about faith. It's sparked frustration in me though with those who claim to have faith and really don't live a life of faith or those who know the truth but whose lives aren't changed. And the frustration comes because the Bible very clearly states the destruction that will come to these people. Now, I'm not perfect at all but I hate the idea of watching people nod their head in agreement with Christianity but never make it a reality for themselves. I am scared for my friends who have something they won't let go of and actually commit themselves to Christ. (I'll pot the link for the 2 sermons at the bottom)
I've also been learning more about repentance. There is being sorry for sin and agreeing with God that you sinned - that's not repentance - repentance is turning from sin (this I knew) but coupled with it is the idea that you intend not to sin against God in that way again. That really puts things into perspective! I can say "God I'm sorry for not spending time in the Word today or I'm sorry for my words with whoever" but that is completely different than saying" I know it is sin, I'm sorry and I intend to not do it again. Help me to turn from this sin. How many people would be speechless while trying to confess sins if they understood the need for committing to removing that sin from their life? I think many like to just say - sorry. and then next week say sorry. And of course I'm guilty of this at times but I'm learning daily and growing!
Playing with Silas as usual, I love doing this with him and he loves playing with my face!
Silas: He can roll over as you can see in the video below - that was his first day rolling over and he is much quicker now!
A day in Silas world
Here he is peeking out from blankets as he woke up from a short nap. I tried to make him think he was still in my arms - the smirk says it all "mooooom, I caught you!"
PLaying in the high chair for the 1st time
Playing some more - this time with baby Helen. He is really looking forward to me nannying Helen while "Aunt Kathy" has her baby in April
Nakey time!
A warm bath at the end of the day
If you don't know about apostasy, I can tell you it is a very serious thing. If you click the link you can read the sermon and from that page you could choose to listen as well. They are longer but if I don't have the full time then I just break it up. I pray that none of you will be an apostate!
Apostasy: The Negative Response to the New Covenant, Part 1
Apostasy: The Negative Response to the New Covenant, Part 2
Twiggy: She is doing good and it still as cute and sweet as ever. We try and spend time with her so she isn't jealous. I usually take her on 1-2 walks a week or just a car ride if I'm just running one errand. I think it's good to get out and explore :) Here she is enjoying the sun on a warm day and sniffing the camera
Nate: Oh I'm sure he is ready to get rid of that cast! I think he has about 4 weeks left and then therapy. He is moving along with his school work. He did get an extension since he can't type or write really. He is still enjoying reading and it's fun to see him get excited over things he has never read before.
~Work has been going good too. Some of you may have gotten an email that said they finally shot down the test missile which is the whole point of this project so it's a pretty big deal.
~Matt has been coming over to help with the chicken coop and Nate directs him LOL Poor Matt - we do try to feed him!
Here is sweet moment with "dew two" - we call him that for some reason? He likes that noise!
Me: Doing good. Silas slept a few more nights all the way through! I'm settling into a routine with the house and taking care of Silas. I am starting the second semester of Biblical Counseling at the church but this time I have to take part of the class online since Nate can't take care of Silas while I'm gone. I'm working my way through Hebrews - I'm chapter 11 now and I've been learning some really great things about faith. It's sparked frustration in me though with those who claim to have faith and really don't live a life of faith or those who know the truth but whose lives aren't changed. And the frustration comes because the Bible very clearly states the destruction that will come to these people. Now, I'm not perfect at all but I hate the idea of watching people nod their head in agreement with Christianity but never make it a reality for themselves. I am scared for my friends who have something they won't let go of and actually commit themselves to Christ. (I'll pot the link for the 2 sermons at the bottom)
I've also been learning more about repentance. There is being sorry for sin and agreeing with God that you sinned - that's not repentance - repentance is turning from sin (this I knew) but coupled with it is the idea that you intend not to sin against God in that way again. That really puts things into perspective! I can say "God I'm sorry for not spending time in the Word today or I'm sorry for my words with whoever" but that is completely different than saying" I know it is sin, I'm sorry and I intend to not do it again. Help me to turn from this sin. How many people would be speechless while trying to confess sins if they understood the need for committing to removing that sin from their life? I think many like to just say - sorry. and then next week say sorry. And of course I'm guilty of this at times but I'm learning daily and growing!
Playing with Silas as usual, I love doing this with him and he loves playing with my face!
Silas: He can roll over as you can see in the video below - that was his first day rolling over and he is much quicker now!
A day in Silas world
Here he is peeking out from blankets as he woke up from a short nap. I tried to make him think he was still in my arms - the smirk says it all "mooooom, I caught you!"
PLaying in the high chair for the 1st time
Playing some more - this time with baby Helen. He is really looking forward to me nannying Helen while "Aunt Kathy" has her baby in April
Nakey time!
A warm bath at the end of the day
If you don't know about apostasy, I can tell you it is a very serious thing. If you click the link you can read the sermon and from that page you could choose to listen as well. They are longer but if I don't have the full time then I just break it up. I pray that none of you will be an apostate!
Apostasy: The Negative Response to the New Covenant, Part 1
Apostasy: The Negative Response to the New Covenant, Part 2
February 03, 2010
January 26, 2010
Broken Arm and Broken Swaddle
"Hey! Why are you calling me so early?"
"Well I broke my arm"
"No you didn't, did you?"
"Yes I did"
"Seriously?"
"Yeah"
"Well, how do I KNOW you broke your arm?"
"You can meet me at the ER in 30 minutes"
As many of you know, Nate did break his arm. For those of you who don't know the details of this last week, I will write them down for ya! How did Nate break his arm? He was snowboarding, fell on a jump and tried to catch himself. He said he heard it break and knew right away. His cousin, David, was with him and he didn't believe Nate until Nate took off down the mountain! Nate walked into ski patrol and they gave him oxygen since he looked a little pale and then David' friend Matt Steele drove him home to the ER locally since Matt needed to come in to study for school anyways. David kept snowboarding and Matt Walters met him up there to keep boarding LOL That's how they work!
SO I dropped Silas off with a friend and met Nate at the ER. Fortunately, the receptionist could tell that he was in a lot of pain (his teeth were chattering uncontrollably) so she got him back right away. I was surprised that he was able to talk and function so well and that his arm didn't look all that strange. He told me it was really painful and I could tell he was hurting but I think if it were me I would have been on the floor. The first nurse came in and asked Nate his pain level,8, then some more questions, then his pain level, 8, then another question, then his pain level, 8? Is she still asking us that?? LOL Weird. Then he walked over to xray. The technician doing the xray said "OH", Nate asked "What?", "Oh I can't talk to you about it." That's just what you want to hear when someone is looking at your bones! The Dr. comes in and tells Nate it is a completely broken radius about midway up his forearm (usually breaks closer to the wrist) and they need to reset it by pulling the bones apart and then putting them back in line, they'll give him local anesthetic and he shouldn't feel much. To which Nate replies, "Can't you just put me to sleep?" Dr.:"No, there are risks that come with that that we would rather avoid if we can. It's not a big deal, i just did this same thing on a 16 year old girl last week no problem."
Dr. starts to draw up the anesthetic and the lid comes flying off - anesthetic goes everywhere.....that should have been the sign. Dr. cleans up and proceeds to numb the area which involves injecting Nate intot he most painful areas and Nate hates needles. That was painful in itself but nothing like what was about to happen. Nate tells the Dr. that his wrist is hurting really bad and that his arm doesn't feel all the way numb but the Dr. assures him that it is and that the wrist pain is just because of everything else going on. And Nate also says - how will you know if it is not all the way numb and the Dr. says oh we'll know. Dr. brings in the second Dr. who will be pulling on the other half of Nates arm - she is WAY smaller than me and Dr. #1 wasn't a big guy either -how is this gonna work?? Well it doesn't. Nate is yelling in pain as the struggle to pull his arm and they finally stop. Nurse Nice runs in, "Is he ok???!" And she requests that he gets an IV for pain. "Well buddy, we can't get it. You did real good, I know that was painful. Looks like we will try again but we'll give you an IV for the pain and re-numb the area" Poor Nate then has to have more needles! Dr. is numbing one arm while Nurse Nice is putting an IV in the other.
Not his actual xray but an example -I'll post his real one later:
Second try =Nate wiggling around in pain, yelling and they think they got it...they wrap up his arm and Xray comes in. An hour later we find out it didn't work, not even close. Nate will need to be put to sleep temporarily so they can reset it. "That's what I told them to do in the first place" It's discouraging when you endure pain on top of pain for nothing. I couldn't be present for the next procedure so I went to feed Silas and brought him back with me to pick up Nate after it was done. The attending Dr. came in and told us with a surprised look on his face and says "We got it and it looks perfect. If you don't do anything else, I think you will be good" Great news! The Dr. got us out pretty quickly after that because the lady next to us was recovering from a suicide attempt and it was getting loud and nasty. Plus it was about 2 am at this point.
The next morning we called and got an appointment with the orthopedic surgeon in Valencia- closer to LA. Most people avoid specialists in this area because of repeated bad experiences -it appears that the knowledge and skill level of the doctors here isn't the greatest. We asked friends for recommendations and almost all said to go "down below" (LA). I guess it makes sense because the desert isn't the most desirable location to live and practice medicine. So we went to SCOI -Southern California Orthopedic Institute. They were great, very professional. Dr. Hanker came in, looked at the xrays and said "You need surgery. Anytime an adult breaks a bone like this it requires surgery. In addition, you have a specific kind of break called a galeazzi fracture which means that not only is the radius broken but your ulna is dislocated as it tries to compensate for the radius. Plus the ligaments surrounding the ulna are torn."
After surgery:
DISLOCATED WRIST?! No wonder the ER visit was killing Nate! They were pulling on his dislocated wrist without anesthetic to try to set the radius which ended up being pointless since he needed surgery. Now, I'm not saying that we aren't thankful for ER doctors because they do have an important job however in this case they should have just left it alone. And we understand that they were trying to help. They just are not trained to see specific things like this and really could have caused more damage not to mention the unnecessary pain. Nate had this happen with a dislocated finger a few years ago so he has sworn off ERs.
So we scheduled the surgery for Thursday morning. We left the house at 6am, me, Nate and Silas. Surgery was supposed to be an hour and ended up being 2 hours. So we were there from 7:30am to 3:30pm. Silas did great sleeping in the stroller, playing on the floor, sleeping some more. I was tired and hungry though! Nate was doing ok with the pain level until, well, until he wasn't. We got home and got him in bed then I went to drop of the prescription. Fortunately I had medicine at home from my c-section so I wasn't rushed. Oh I completely forgot to mention that we had been having extreme weather conditions with flooding and snow which of course made traveling around super fun! Thankfully, the Lord kept us safe. Suddenly Nate was in excruciating pain - it involved a 103 temperature, our friend Mandy picking up Silas while another friend Jasanna brought us the filled prescription and then we took off for the Urgent Care to treat the pain. We got o UC through the river/roads and Nate's arm is feeling better, so good that he wants to leave. Alright, what do you want to do Nate? "It's weird, sitting up helped it. Let's go to Bryan and Mandy's cause they have those big reclining chairs that I can sit it and we'll get Silas" Nate ended up staying the night there while I went home with Slias - I didn't see that one coming! It allowed me to a little most rest and not run around so much and Nate felt much better.
Puffy fingers:
Bruised Bicep:
Since then he has felt pretty good. He has to take breaks and it is still painful and swollen but everyday it gets a little better. WHe went to work for the first time today so we will see how that goes. Tomorrow we will visit Dr. Hanker to see how things are going and get the permanent cast. He ended up needing a plate in his radius and pins in his wrist as well. I'll put up a picture of what Nate's xray looked like below but I'll post his actual xray later.You can pray for his recovery to be quick, for Nate to contune on with school one handed (I have a lot of underlining and typing to do!) and for me to be a servant to my boys during this time. Nate can't help nearly as much now although he did get himself ready all by himself today LOL that sounds funny to say!
Now to the broken swaddle: Silas and his swaddle. That boy loves it! He is 4 months old and I can't just lay him down. Every tmie I battle to keep him asleep while I swaddle him and then put him down- which is fine at night cause he is really tired but during the day? It doesn't work so well plus he is almost out growing the blanket I use to swaddle him. I think part of the reason he wakes up at night is because he breaks free from the swaddle. Yesterday he didn't sleep at all for naps. I keep trying the just let him cry, squiggle, whine it out thing but he wins! After 45 minutes I usually go and get him because he is wide awake, He can be in a dead sleep on my shoulder or super tired and I will lay him down and he will fling or stretch himself awake. And then if I leave him there and walk away - he just stays awake playing or yelling at me. Sigh, any advice on how to get him to just lay down? Or take a bottle for that matter?
Swaddled
Unswadded:
Big smiles:
playing with daddy:
Best time of the day:
Cooking with mom:
Our front yard grew grass and lots of weeds cause of the rain
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