A thankful tree, a major award, and a slip of the blade!

In an effort to remember Thanksgiving and all of our many blessings, we made a family “Thankful Tree.” Throughout the month of November we would all take out a leaf each day and write something we were grateful for on it. The Monday before thanksgiving we put them on a tree and read what everyone wrote. We had everything from “health insurance” to “chairs” (the latter being from Lucy because she couldn’t get into half of the stuff she does without them).

 

Seth and I were invited to the end of the term assembly where they hand out awards to different students. Seth had actually never been to Charlie’s school so it was fun for him to get a visual. We love Charlie’s school (Candlewood Elementary), and his teacher is a good fit. He received an award in Music for “following cues in a singing game.” It seemed random but he we still very excited to walk in front of the school and receive his award. 

Matthew made a Turkey hat in preschool the week before Thanksgiving.

Seth and I are trying to be Santa’s elves for Christmas and embarked on making something (details will come later) for the kids. Seth was using a PVC cutter and accidentally cut his thumb. At first he didn’t think it was too big of a deal but then it was obvious he would need stitches. He headed off to the emergency room at 11pm on a Saturday night. He came home with five stitches and a splint. The doctor thought he might have grazed the tendon so Seth was suppose to work on straightening and if he couldn’t then they would have to open it back up to repair it. Over a two week period it seemed to be healing fine and he could move it quite a bit but it wouldn’t straighten. He went in for a checkup and they ended up opening it all back up again (this of course required a lot more incisions than his original cut). It turned out that the tendon was completely severed so we are so glad he was able to get it fixed. This bandage seemed a bit excessive (there is even a hard cast under that) but hopefully it will heal fast. He will get a new splint next week and hopefully it will give him more mobility. Unfortunately he will be in a splint for 6-10 weeks!