Since it was Anna's birthday last month and I didn't post in June, I thought I would do a little "Anna" post. For her 6th birthday we took her to get her ears pierced. She wanted the cute little pink gemstones. Since they are $10 at Wal-mart and $37 at Claires, we chose to go to Wal-Mart. Not a great choice. The lady pierced her ears on an angle so the earring on her left had the back coming out the base of her earlobe. After about three hours I decided they needed to be re-pierced. I didn't want her to go through life with such a ridiculous ear piercing. We took them out that night. She was so sad. She's been asking for years to get her ears pierced, but we had told her she had to wait until after kindergarten, because that's how old her sisters were when they got theirs pierced. Now she's too afraid of the pain and doesn't want to get them re-pierced. Twice she asked me to take her in, and twice we went to the mall to Claire's and then she'd change her mind. I told her it was fine and she could wait as long as she wants to or not even get them pierced if that's what she wants.
Her birthday party was fun. We had 5 girls over to play water games in the back yard. She was a little exuberant with the water balloon toss.
Anna and her kindergarten teacher, Mrs. McGarry. Her teacher was wonderful. Anna preformed gymnastics at the kindergarten talent show on this day.
I don't have a picture for the last news about Anna. On Saturday she was playing in the back yard going down the slide - with water on it. She hit the ground hard on her shoulder and complained that it hurt. When I got home from work she was still complaining so I took her in to see a doctor. We got there at 7:30 p.m. and waited until 8:00 to see a P.A. The office closes at 8 so they were starting to lock the doors and turn off the lights. The PA really didn't think anything was wrong and said he didn't feel like we needed to x-ray it. He did send us home with a sling and said she'd probably just bruised her shoulder.
The next morning she was still complaining that it hurt and it looked swollen to me. I called my friend who is a nurse to come and see it and she said to give her motrin and keep it in the sling as there's really nothing they can do if it is broken. This morning Anna woke up at 4:30 crying in pain. I decided this was definitely more than a bruised shoulder. My favorite doctor couldn't see us until 5 p.m. so we kept her arm in the sling and went in at 5. The doctor looked at her, felt her clavicle with her fingers "walking" up the bone and found a fracture. She x-rayed it to be sure and it's definitely broken clear through her clavicle. The break looks like this ">" through the bone. Luckily the two sides are lined up correctly. We have to keep her in the sling for 3-6 weeks depending on how it heals. She's a pretty miserable little girl right now.
That's not a very happy note to end on. Here's a picture of her at a picnic at Snowbird with her cousins, family, and grandparents. I'm sure it won't be too long until she's smiling again.
We just got back from our family reunion out by Altamont this past week. My parents rented this cabin for the reunion. It was beautiful. There were five bedrooms and six bathrooms.
This was our view from the cabin. We had the first two lakes to ourselves (they come with renting the cabins). Bret is in the boat with Jenna and Andrew in this picture.
An unexpected bonus was all the crawdad fishing the kids were able to do. Addison was in heaven. His uncles loved it too. Here is one of the little guys we caught. They cooked up a crawdad feast on two of the evenings. I didn't participate, but they assured me it was delicious.
Our 91 year old grandma with her newest great-grandchild.
