Status Update

Okay... to get my phone to stop ringing, here is a quick update.

Dalton is doing better. After spending five days on crutches, he was back up and moving with a brace. Since it's a high ankle sprain, the recovery is a little longer. He returned to football practice yesterday. However, the pain and inability to rotate his ankle to make his "cuts" on the field will be keeping him sidelined for another week. As a mother (and nurse) I'm agree with that decision and had even tried to prepare Dalton for it. He's in good spirits nonetheless.

Devin aced his first two college Sociology exams! Of course, how could he not breeze through the id, ego, superego Freud section? The boy lives to define these... literally!

Emmalie and I had a very interesting time at the State Fair on Sunday. I have never seen so many missing teeth, tattoos, body piercings, cowboy boots and pregnant women at the same time since my days in the trauma bay! It was the first time Emmalie hasn't fought off holding my hand in public in weeks. Poor girl was somewhat frightened by the crowd. (She'd never been to a fair before). The concert was short, but good... well, once you got past the thousands of screaming teen and school-aged girls that is!

Bethanie is preparing for her big third birthday. She wakes up every morning wanting to know if it's "Ok-ober sebenth" yet! Our baby girl is fast making us realize she is not a baby any more. At least until she uses her favorite statement.... "Mommy, when I get big.... " :)

I'll close with Bethanie's funny for the day. She and Emmalie were playing with dolls. Bethie had her blonde-haired Strawberry Shortcake doll, and Emmalie the purple one....

Emmalie: "Mommy, smell my doll. She smells like grapes!"

Bethanie: "Mommy, smell MY doll. She just smells like poop!"

I'm guessing Bethie doesn't know what a lemon smells like! And doesn't like it either!

Football, Football... Injury?!

What a L-O-N-G week! It started with the KSU football game on Saturday... and has entailed Middle School football, a trip to the ER and parent-teacher conferences.

Tony and I took the kids (well, Devin stayed home) to the KSU football game last Saturday. The only thing I have to say is thank goodness that I didn't wear my KU attire like originally planned ;) The KSU fans were really brutal when they came to realize that KU actually DID beat the #17 team in the country (Georgia Tech). ROCK CHALK JAYHAWKS...!

All decked out in KSU gear!

Emmalie praying for a KSU win ;/

The next event of our week was Dalton's "big" football game against his friends at the other Middle School. Unfortunately, Dalton didn't get past the first quarter before he had planted his foot wrong while in the act of being tackled. He tried to return to the game at the start of the second quarter, but it wasn't meant to be. The MHS athletic trainer did a totally awesome job wrapping his ankle up... but we still ended up in the ER later. Dalt has a very bad high ankle sprain and has been out of commission on crutches. We'll take him back to the doctor tomorrow to have a stress test (ROM) on his ankle to see if he'll be able to practice of play any next week. In case you're wondering, Dalton's team ended up losing by 32 points.

Dalton goes in for the tackle...

But his playing time was short lived...

And the poor boy was sidelined by an injury.

Last night Tony and I split up to attend conferences for Emmalie & Dalton. Dalton ended up with his normal remarks: "He has an A in this class", "What a great role model and leader he is", "I wish we could clone him", and my personal favorite "Dalton can sometimes get the class all a chatter". (He must take after his Mom, right?!). Emmalie's teacher was just impressed by all of the preparation her Preschool teachers did for Kindergarten. The normal standards for completion of first month of Kindergarten in vocabulary and sounds of letters is 25%... Emmalie got a 97% (she missed 1)! They even said she helps and is NOT the bossy girl in class :) WHOO-HOO to that one!

The end of the week is almost here. We're hoping for a little R & R... but, that will end late Sunday when Emmalie and I head up to the state fair so I can take her to see the Selena Gomez concert.

Hope everyone has a great weekend.

Shelia

FINALLY... Football is Back!

YEAH! The absolute funnest sports time of the year has finally arrived! And what a season it should be... :)

Dalton and Tony will swear that K-State is going to "whoop up" the Big 12 teams and make it all the way to the Championship game. Devin and I would like to remind them every week for the next two months that the first game DOES NOT signify how an entire season is going to go... but we can't. Because Dalton had a **** of a good first game on Thursday night, too. And we REALLY want the 8th grade football season to go well. So we are biting our tongues about the whole K-State thing too! (Yea... that's tough for a KU Alum).

So, without further delay, we bring you highlights of MMS 8th grade football Game #1...!



Yes! You saw correctly! Dalton scored the first FIVE touchdowns of the game. And he didn't even play on offense at all during the second half. (You do the math!). Did anyone else notice that he tackled an opponent and even "took out" the chain girl in the process? At least he had manners... he helped up his opponent... NOT the girl ;0

That's all for this time. Have a great day off tomorrow. Happy Labor Day!