The Clunker

 McKean broke his little leg while we were at Disney World. None of us know how he did it. It is a mystery. On Friday morning which was our day off from visiting the parks, Justin and Andrea were gone shopping, Jared had taken the three big girls to do some crafts at the resort and I was hanging out with the two babies. McKean was just crawling around but he was super fussy. So I nursed him and then when I went to put him down he wouldn't put his little right leg down. He kept it up like a dog with a hurt leg. I put him sitting on the ground and noticed that he would try to crawl but didn't want to use his leg at all. He looked like a boy dog peeing cause he would keep his hurt leg raised in the air and then try to crawl. It was cute and sad. I called Jared and told him that McKean some how hurt his leg. We watched him all day, he was fussy unless he was sitting on the comfy bed or in the highchair and if we moved it he would really cry out in pain. We were thinking perhaps he just twisted it or maybe one of the kids stepped on it.

The next morning he was still in a lot so Jared took him to the ER and sure enough it was broken. The doctor called it a toddlers fraction and said he was probably trying to climb off of something like perhaps this big bed which he did try a few times and landed on it wrong. There was a small hairline fracture in his tibia. Jared said he did great and didn't cry or fight to get away at all while they were x-raying or putting the cast on. We were both surprised it was actually broken and while Jared was there he got a job offer from the doc there. Pretty funny!

The pants he was wearing didn't fit over the  cast so the rest of the day while we were at the Animal Kingdom park he was just pant less. Everyone kept making comments about his cast and he instantly gained a few pounds.

It was amazing how fast he adjusting. He was already crawling and climbing within a few hours!

I was glad I had packed a couple of his stretchy pants!

When we got home he was still the same climbing machine as before. When I took him to the gym, the daycare workers work amazed that he was still climbing all over everything like he always does. Little Stinker!

He even started standing and walking with the cast which we called his clunker. He learned that he could make some loud noises with it so he would kick it really hard on the ground  and thought it was funny!

 He was pretty funny sometimes because the weight would knock him over!

He kept his same monkey man crawl just adapted it by putting his leg further out.

After his three weeks of having it on his toes were pretty dirty. 

 Bath time was not so fun for this little guy. He hated having the bag around his leg and not being able to just play in the water.

Finally we were able to get him and get his cast off. He go it on the 10th on got it off on the 30th.

 

He definitely was a little scared when they used the blade to cut it off.

But then he was  so good while they it off!Oh I missed that cute little dirty foot!

Immediately he got down and started walking on it and didn't seem to have any issues. As soon as we got home I was playing with him on the carpet and he went to crawl and his foot stepped on a toy and I just heard the faintest sound of something breaking and then he just screaming. I was thinking that he must of just broken it again. He didn't really use it all the next few days but within a week he was back to crawling normally and then around Christmas he finally started walking on it again!!

Thanksgiving Week!

 

We spent Thanksgiving this year here at in Texas and it was low key and relaxing. We started a new tradition of each of us writing down something we are grateful for everyday and then hung them up in the kitchen. It was fun and Kai even wrote a few of her own of course they only had the letters she know ie BE and I.   

We were having dinner at the Keck's so I had the kids make some foam turkeys to decorate the table. 

The Week of Thanksgiving the Church declared it Family Proclamation Week and our ward really pushed it hard so we decided to do it. Basically, the rules are every night from 5 to bedtime is family time with no email, Internet, phone, TV, electronics. Just pure old fashioned family fun. It was really great. We just spent time hanging out, chasing the kids around.

Chasing Balloons and trying not to let them touch the ground 

or in McKean's case just trying to eat them!

Or hitting each other with the balloons!

One night we hung up the outside Christmas lights and played "bat ball"

 On Thanksgiving we signed up to deliver meals to the elderly with Meals On Wheels. It was crazy, I think everyone else in San Antonio signed up too. It was so awesome, definitely a new tradition.

Here is Kai walking to one of the homes. She has a place mat made by the girl scouts, a flower and sticks which she always seems to have with her when she is outside. The old people loved meeting her and you could just tell it meant a lot to them.

Then we came home and made a from scratch green bean casserole it was so good, the homemade fried onions were to die for. Then it was on to dinner at the Keck's. We didn't take any photos of the people but here is the table. Dinner was probably the best thanksgiving dinner any of us had ever had, the turkey was so good, I am still craving it! We had the Kecks and Justin's parents and our friends Scott and Andrea Fitzgerald.

My friend Andrea did get a few of the kids. 

Kai must have been running around.

The pies, I made the lemon meringue and pecan. Next time I will try a more traditional pecan pie.

The kids working up their appetite.

Brinley, Savanna, Kai, Boston

After dinner we decided to go to Sea World to welcome in the Christmas Season.

The kids met all the Christmas sea creatures.

Shamu Santa!

 Kailie and Boston holding hands walking around. I love the innocence of kids! Sometimes these two get along and other times they fight like cats and dogs!!

 

 Friday we spent the night putting up Christmas stuff. The kids had fun playing in the Christmas tree box.

The cast pretty much didn't slow down this kid one bit!

It was a great week and both Jared and I loved doing the family proclamation, it was hard sometimes, but totally worth it. I think we don't realize how dependent we are on technology!!

Mr. Piggy

This kid loves to eat! No matter who is feeding him.

Hanging out with our friends little boy Beau and chowing down!

He went to town on this pineapple at the luau in Hawaii! 

He loves green smoothies!

Chowing down or more like gnawing on some beef jerky

He does not like Avocados, spits them out every time but he LOVES guacamole!! Who knows!!! He loves spice and has recently decided that he doesn't like anything that has color, i.e. fruits, veges, it is a struggle to get him to eat some everyday and that is only baby food. He will not eat whole fruit or veges at all anymore. He is going to be the death of me little stinker!!

For a while he was super picky about not using his hands to eat so he tried just using his mouth! 

 

It didn't work so well so he went back to using his paws!

 We give him ice cream made from coconut milk and he loves it!

 

Chowing down on Black Bean soup!

Soup is one of his favorites!! He loves pretty much all of the ones that I make!

Definitely his favorite foods are anything grain, Bread, pancakes, waffles, rolls and he has recently discovered Daddy's chocolate covered oreo's and he loves them and if he see's them you better watch out cause he will freak out till he gets one!