Mary's Moments

Normally every year we go to Marble Falls (about an hour away) for a Fall Festival and pumpkin patch, but this year with Christopher's leg and to keep things simple we decided to stay here and find something locally to enjoy. We went to a Fall Festival about 15 minutes away today and it was fun! Not to mention that the weather was just gorgeous! The kids got to pick and decorate pumpkins, jump on bouncy houses, pet animals in a petting zoo, and more. It didn't take long for the kids to find their pumpkins! Christopher had fun playing pumpkin basketball! He was limited to what he could do today, but he enjoyed this...he always loves basketball!! Matthew giving him a push forward...and he got a basket! Aww, so close! Matthew got a hold of the camera and took this shot of Christopher, but I thought it turned out pretty cute (except he's missing some hair:). Katherine got her turn with the camera and snapped this shot of us. She's always been a natural photographer (since s

On Saturday Christopher (our 2 yr. old) was outside playing in the backyard with our other kids and fell and hurt his leg. He cried on and off for most of the night and wouldn't walk or even stand on his leg but we didn't see any swelling, so we somewhat thought he just badly pulled a muscle/tendon or had a sprain. On Sunday afternoon, we decided to take him to the urgent care and they took X-rays and found that he has a spiral fracture on his tibia (i.e. - the larger bone in the leg), which means he has a broken leg. They put his leg in a splint and told us to contact an orthopedic surgeon this week. Today, I made an appointment early (and actually got in for this afternoon!) to see a pediatric orthopedist and the Dr. said that he has to be in long leg cast (goes from toe to uppermost part of thigh) for 4 1/2 weeks and then we'll come back and take more X-rays to determine if he'll need a short cast put on. If it's healed properly, then we can just remove the long