First things first, back in April we found out that we were pregnant with #3! After some complications and a lot of throwing up, we are well into our fifth month and all seems to be well. The baby is due January 10th. Auden says it is a girl but like the other two we are not going to find out. So we will all just have to wait and see...
As for Jesse, he was letting the air out of a jackhammer hose by running it out and the hammer jumped and crushed his hand between a metal platform and the hammer...resulting in what looked to be a clean break of his fourth metatarsal aka ring finger hand bone. After seeing a surgeon it was agreed that he should have surgery, where they found it to be way worse then thought. Instead of a clean break it was crushed into small pieces and they also had to reconstruct the ball of his knuckle. So one big metal plate and eight screws later it is fixed. He has had a cast on for a month now and has two weeks to go. Luckily the powers that be at work found some line inspection for him to do that does not require the use of his right hand. Lets just say he is learning to write with his left hand very quickly, but after five weeks off work he was ready to go back. Two more weeks of the cast and then it is the slow train ride to recovery town.
The nice thing is that since Jesse was already off work we didn't have to take vacation time to go the Pennsylvania like we were planning. My good friend Megan was getting married out there and I was a bridemaid. So thanks to Grandma Karen and all the "Aunts and Uncles" (as Auden calls them) Jesse and I got some much needed together time over the week we spent sight seeing with our best friends Kendall and Katie Sawyer. It really was amazing to stand were so many historical things happened. We stood in Independence Hall where they signed the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, saw the liberty bell, ate the the same tavern that our founding fathers ate, walked the same streets, and stood in the feild were 52,000 men died in the battle of Gettysberg. Seeing all these things really put it all into prospective how much so many have sacrificed for the freedom we take for granted. The more I thought about it and how amazing it is the more I thought about how so many are still sacrificing for us to keep that freedom. I am truly thankful for all our armed services. I also got to thinking that our government should really be made to have a feild trip to those places every year so they can be reminded what it is all about. And that God and the Bible was the basis of that freedom...if they don't believe it look on the liberty bell where it is engraved with the words of Leviticus. Ok I am off my soap box!
While we were gone the kids had a blast at the Cress'. Brahm learned to talk like a big boy, and must have added like twenty words to his vocabulary now he can say some prettly long words. Oh and he got louder, if that is possible. Auden told me it was because everyone talks there and he is smaller, and that is why he has to be louder. In a way she is right but I really think it is because she never stops talking and that is the only was he can be heard. Since coming home I have also noticed that they both have really learned to play together, the other night they were out "playing soccer", it really was Auden kicking it in the woods and making Brahm go get it but they were having fun. They are growing up so fast, it is no longer baby things but big kid things like bunkbeds, tonka trucks, riding a big horse and not a pony at the fair, wanting to go to dance class, and boycotting sippycups. Were does it all go? I am loving it, they are sooo cool! So I will leave you with pictures of all the fun. Thanks for sticking out the dry spell. May your Fall be blessed.
