tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82744529544746845952024-03-21T20:09:33.785-06:00Mendonite WelkersDave * Michelle * Hannah * Ashley * NicoleThe Mendon Welkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725328968854291360noreply@blogger.comBlogger258125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8274452954474684595.post-73912096719981520392014-08-02T22:15:00.000-06:002014-08-02T22:15:15.672-06:00Cast #4<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On July 10, Ashley went in for her next check up on her broken arm. She's getting pretty good at knowing her way around the doctor's office and knowing the routine. First, we visit x-ray, then we go to the exam room and wait to see Dr. Murray.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">According to the xray, everything is looking great. New bone is forming and filling in to replace the broken bone. On the small bone, you can barely see where the two bones have grown back together. You can still see the crack on the larger bone but the bone spur I was worried about the time before is now gone and has been replaced with new bone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Even though everything is healing great, Ashley still needs to be in a cast so off goes cast #3 and on comes cast #4.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">As they take off the old casts, Ashley cracks me up that she doesn't want to see her arm. I think she's still afraid that it's crooked. I reassure her that her arm is now straight but she still doesn't want to look. As you can see...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The nurses at the doctor's office have been so awesome in letting Ashley design her own casts. I had no idea that you totally needed to be an artist to apply a cast. This go round, Ashley has gone with orange and pink with glitter!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At this appointment, the doctor indicated we will probably have one more cast after this one and then a splint. Yep, there goes the entire summer but Ashley is being such a trooper.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />The Mendon Welkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725328968854291360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8274452954474684595.post-13690145649290031342014-06-27T21:23:00.000-06:002014-06-27T21:25:31.513-06:00What Do You Do in the Summertime with a Broken Arm?<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You get your ears pierced!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We have the rule at our house that you need to be eight years old to get your ears pierced. Hannah was and is not interested at all in getting hers done. Ashley on the other hand has really been asking since her birthday.....a year ago...... when she turned eight. There just seems to have always been something that's gotten in the way. For instance....soccer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Seems Ashley will not be playing in any soccer games for the next six weeks due to the broken arm, there will not be any need for her to remove earrings. So, Wednesday, June 18, 2014, was the day! We went to Claire's in the Mall and "got 'er done!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As soon as we walked into Claire's, I thought we were good to go. Ashley quickly walked over to the ear piercing station and began picking some out. However, as the time grew closer, I really thought she was going to back out. You could see the fear coming in her eyes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After talking Ashley through it and the girl that was doing the piercing said, "If you can survive the broken arm, you can survive this. No problem." I told her that it was a whole lot easier than having two IVs in her arm at the ER. I also informed her that this was the perfect time to have it done seems there would be no soccer to worry about. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The girl was really cute. She said, "We'll just get you all ready but I won't open the earrings until the very end just in case you decide you don't want to do it." She seems okay while the ink dots were being applied but still not too sure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She decided to go ahead with it but as you can see by the look on her face....she's scared to death!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All done....still a little scared....but she did it!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The experience is over and now she's happy to have them and to send a quick text to Dad.</span><br />
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The Mendon Welkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725328968854291360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8274452954474684595.post-28154143369718022222014-06-26T22:45:00.000-06:002014-06-26T22:46:09.542-06:00Cast #3<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ashley's 1 1/2 week check up was today. We once again did the routine of going straight back to the xray station then off to the exam room to wait for the doctor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">We once again today say the orthopedic doctor. He showed me how on he xray things are healing nicely. The small bone is doing amazing. You can see where the bone is filling in nicely and from the straight on view you can barely see the break.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The larger bone is healing well too but it's taking a bit longer. You can see on this one as well where the bone is starting to fill in. However, I can still see where the bone has a shard pointing out. I did ask the doctor if I/we should be concerned about it. I'm sure it freaks me out a bit more than it does him. He informed me that over time the bone will come in and fill in around the shard. He indicated in 6-12 months you won't even be able to see where the bone has been broken.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">However, once again, more swelling has gone down and we still can't have any give in the cast. So, off to the cast room we go for cast #3. Because we're close to the 4th of July and in asking, this won't be Ashley's last cast, she decided to be patriotic and go for the stars and stripes cast with silver glitter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The medical assistant was super nice and after she took the cast off she took Ashley to the sink and washed her arm. Ashley said it felt <em>so</em> good to have her arm washed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Once again, Ashley was completely freaked out to look at her arm. I think in her mind it still looks deformed like it did right after she broke it. She did all she could to keep herself looking elsewhere and occupied until they got the cotton sleeve on to protect her arm from the cast. Poor little thing! At this point we now have two assistants in the room with us and one is trying to talk her through looking at her arm. I think she may have convinced her to take a quick glance but then she was back to not wanting anything to do with it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Here she is getting cast #3 put on</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We go back for her next check up in two weeks (July 10). I guess we'll be on pins and needles seeing what kind of cast comes next. I believe she already has in her mind what color(s) she wants.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I guess if you're going to break your arm on the first day of summer vacation and will sport it for the entire break, you might as well have fun with it, right?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />The Mendon Welkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725328968854291360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8274452954474684595.post-32129597104584720712014-06-26T22:44:00.000-06:002014-06-26T22:44:26.592-06:00Cast #2<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We returned to the doctor on Monday, June 16, for a check up on Ashley's arm. I guess I didn't realize when you broke your arm this bad that they really watch closely to make sure everything is healing properly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Xrays were taken of Ashley's arm through her cast. This time we saw the actual orthopedic doctor, Dr Murray, so it was a little different and I didn't dare ask to take photos of the xrays. He was a bit more professional than the physician's assistant.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">After looking at the xrays and listening to the doctor's explanation, it was determined that the cast needed to be removed and a new one put on. The bones were healing fine but there was too much play in the cast from the swelling going down and the angle of her wrist needed to be adjusted to make sure the arm continued to heal straight. At this point, I believe I am finally realizing just how bad Ashley has broken her arm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Off to the cast room we went and this time we had a new medical assistant taking of the old cast and putting on the new one. Come to find out, I worked with her dad at BATC. He retired a few years ago but I wondered why she looked so familiar. It never hurts to be friendly and know people either. I feel like Ashley got special treatment and ended up with another designer cast. This time they let her do a pink cast and then the assistant folded purple in half and made stripes over the pink. Of course, we had to add some clear glitter and bling bling! We have cast #2. Hannah and Ashley also enjoyed the "extra special" treat they got from the assistant of Oreos. I'm sure it helped that we were chatting quite a bit about her dad.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">When they took the cast off, I quickly snapped a picture of Ashley's arm. Even though she would not have anything to do with looking at it. I tried to explain that it looked much better than it did when she first broke it. It's now straight but she still wanted nothing to do with taking a look.</span><br />
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The Mendon Welkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725328968854291360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8274452954474684595.post-72555468240581067532014-06-09T22:54:00.000-06:002014-06-09T22:54:41.854-06:00Ashley Got Her Cast<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I took Ashley back to the Orthopedic doctor today for more xrays to make sure the one bone hadn't moved any further and to see if she was on track to get her cast.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I was a little nervous when we first went to radiology because the tech there said her fingers still looked a little bit too swollen. With that comment, I was thinking that we were going to be sent home again today still in the soft cast from the ER.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Back in the room, the doctor pulled up her xrays and showed me that everything seems to be healing fine. Crazy me!! I forgot to take pictures of these xrays and it was at this moment that I realized I had brought the "nice" camera an left it in the van. Go figure!! The cell phone camera would have to work once again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">All was a go for the cast! We still have to keep her arm elevated as much as possible to keep the swelling down but it was time for the hard cast!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">As the doctor was leaving, I asked him how long? He said, "How long until you need to see me again or how long until it's all over?" Well, I didn't realize these were two separate questions. I was thinking that the cast was put on today and then we would return in 6-8 weeks and they'd take it off. Boy was I wrong! He said we would be coming back next week to check the cast and to do more xrays to make sure everything was still healing straight and to make sure the cast doesn't get too loose. After that, hopefully we don't have to go back for 2 weeks for the routine check again. Wow! I guess when you literally "snap" your bones it's a lot different healing process than when you "buckle" fracture your bone, which is what the other two girls have done. He did say that hopefully she'll be done in approximately 6 weeks with the cast an then for the last two weeks they will put her in a splint. Wow....is all I could say.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The Medical Assistant got Ashley all prepped for the cast. They did have to support her arm in the Chinese handcuffs again. This freaked me out a bit when they mentioned this at the last appointment because I was afraid it would hurt her. Once again, she was such a brave girl and took the whole thing in stride.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Removing the ace bandages (she does look a bit scared to begin with)....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While the nurse was collecting all of the materials needed to put on the cast (ie...Chinese hancuffs), Ashley was given a key ring of cast swatches to pick which color she wanted. She thought about the soccer ball cast but the base color was white and together we decided that it probably would get quite a bit dirty. She didn't want to pick the pink or purple color because Hannah and Nicole had had these. All of the other colors were really dark and boyish. She was bummed that there wasn't a bright yellow color. Then she found her favorite. The tie dye!! The Medical Assistant said it really turns out cute. Then she asked Ashley if she's like sparkle added to the cast. Um....Yea! Did she even have to ask if she should add sparkle?!? Ashley was so excited!! The cast was added and then before it dried silver sparkle was added to the entire cast.</span><br />
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The Mendon Welkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725328968854291360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8274452954474684595.post-25246777596533068452014-06-06T23:33:00.000-06:002014-06-06T23:33:43.229-06:00Ashley Breaks Her Arm<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Friday, May 30, started summer vacation for Ashley and Nicole and it was Hannah's last day of school. The girls spent the day with Grandma Peterson because we were in limbo for a day before our summer routine began.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">In the morning, while at work, I called the Sports Academy to sign Ashley and Nicole up for swim lessons. As life goes, it was the last day to sign up for the classes starting on Monday. My first phone call resulted in me not signing them up because the session I needed for Ashley was full. After thought and talking things through, I called back and signed both girls up for the session below where they should be to give them a refresher before moving on for the summer. For this session, I was able to get them in the little bit later time slot, which I had convinced myself would actually work much better because it would be less stress on me getting off work, heading to Mendon to pick up the girls and getting to swim lessons on time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">After work and picking up the girls from Grandma's we headed to the grocery store to pick up the fixings for homemade salsa. For the most part, this is our Friday dinner. We call it "Salsa Friday" and we make fresh salsa, guacamole and quesadillas. Yummy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">For Ashley's birthday in April, she got a pair of rollerblades. She mostly "rolls" around the house trying to get use to them. She's been outside a couple of times but not very many. The girls asked if they could play outside while I made dinner and we waited for Dave to come home from work. Hannah and Nicole played on the golf cart and Ashley decided to rollerblade outside.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">While Nicole was playing outside, I had to keep going out and checking to make sure she was singing and not screaming/crying from being hurt. I had the talk with her at least twice that by the way she was singing, I couldn't tell if she needed help. Then came the ultimate scream!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">As it registers in my mind that this is a real scream, the door flies open and Hannah, in a very panicked voice says, "Mom! Ashley broke her arm and you can tell!" I drop the knife I was using to slice up my very last tomato for our salsa. I run outside behind Hannah to see Ashley kneeling on the driveway. Right as I reach Ashley, Dave pulls in the driveway from work. What perfect timing! I believe Heavenly Father knows that for traumatic situations like this, I need some backup to keep me grounded. However, from what Dave sees as he's pulling in the driveway, he thinks I'm chasing Hannah and we're playing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">As I get to Ashley, I can see from the looks of her arm that it is definitely broken. All I can remember seeing are her big blue eyes looking at me with sheer panic in them as she says, "Mom! I broke my arm!" I say to her, "Yes, you did. It's going to be okay. Just focus with me." At this point, Hannah is trying to get in Dave's truck but because it is still in gear, his doors are locked. I look at Dave through the windshield and motion for him to come over. He must have caught the look in my eyes that something was wrong because he immediately pulled forward and jumped out of the truck.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Dave helped Ashley up and supported her arm. I sent Hannah inside to get one of our other slings. Yep, we've had enough broken arms (three) to have a sling or two lying around. Ashley still has her roller blades on and Dave gently rolls her to the van parked in the garage and gets her loaded for us to head into Logan for help.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Somehow, I'm not sure how, Hannah and Nicole made it into the house as I was grabbing my wallet for my insurance card. Hannah had already made it upstairs and was in a bit of shock herself. She was crying because she thought it was her fault that Ashley fell. Nicole was standing to the side of my starting to cry but for her I'm sure it was because it was a bit crazy as to what was happening and it was all happening so fast. Both Dave and I were trying to calm Hannah down (yea...not sure when he made it in the house and changed out of his shirt and tie) and reassuring her that this was a complete accident. It's no ones fault. They were being kids and playing outside. We told Hannah that right now we needed her to be a big 12 year old and needed her to stay home and take care of Nicole because both Dave and I had to go with Ashley. I looked at Nicole and told her that I needed her to be a big 6 year old and to stay home with Hannah. They were told to watch movies and make mac 'n cheese for dinner and to keep the phone close that we would be in touch and keep them posted on what was going on. Out to the van we went and off to Logan we headed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I believe started with the drive in for help, Ashley was in a bit of shock but I must say she never shed another tear. I'm sure the shock and pain curbed that but she was the strongest little nine year old I've ever seen. On our way in, Ashley definitely could feel every bump. I was having her wiggle her toes while I was tapping her back trying anything I could to help take her mind off her arm. Of course, there had to be slow cars driving on Old Mendon Road. I believe there was a time that Dave passed multiple cars at once but I'm not 100% sure. I was too busy in the back seat with Ashley. We decided to take her to InstaCare because it's cheaper than the Emergency Room.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">We pull into InstaCare and I jump out to make sure that they really are open until 8 p.m. We didn't want to unload Ashley if they were closed. I see they are open so out she comes and in we go. I got her checked in and when they question was asked, I informed them that the arm was definitely broken. we were quickly taken to the back for her to be seen. The nurse at there was so sweet with Ashley. She was taken to the first room to have her vitals taken. We were then taken to an exam room. As the nurse was looking her over, she could see through the sling how broken her arm really was. She was so nice in saying that before they did anything (xrays, etc.) she was going to have the doctor look at the arm because there are some things they can do at InstaCare but there are also some things that they can't do and so they would have to refer us to the Emergency Room. She was a bit concerned that this was going to be an Emergency Room fix.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The doctor came straight in and didn't even have to move the sling to see the break and she confirmed that this was beyond something they could fix. So, Ashley received her first wheelchair ride of the night back out to the van to be loaded in and taken to the ER. The nurse had told Ashley while in the exam room how brave she was being. She said that if she had an award for bravery, she would have given it to Ashley. They couldn't believe that she wasn't crying, screaming, whimpering or anything. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Back in the car, we apologized to Ashley that we had to drive further so once again we wiggled our toes and tapped the back.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">She was so cute walking into the ER. She had to walk through the parking lot in her socks because we had taken her roller blades off but never bothered to put more shoes on her. She did have flip flops in the van but we didn't take the time to put them on. We got her checked in at the front desk and once again we were taken straight back for her to get help. We went to a first room again where her vitals were taken once again. As the nurse left, Ashley looks at me and says, "Mom. I need to pee." Oh....well...I think that will be okay. Off her and I go to the bathroom. We had to make sure first that she wouldn't need to give a urine test or anything. She was just the cutest little thing as she looks and says, "This is awkward but I think I'm gonna need a little help here."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">After her vitals are taken and the nurse takes a look at her arm and Ashley politely asks her to cover it back up, we are off to an ER room. Ashley is put on a gurney and quickly given the once over. The staff can tell from the get go that she's going to need to have her arm set. So, first things first, Ashley needs and IV. Oh boy. Now you must remember that Ashley does not like needles. She is my child that escaped from the doctor's office exam room so she didn't have to get a flu shot. I ended up chasing her through the doctor's office and bringing her back kicking and screaming. Dave and I are just giving Ashley the support she needs to get through this. Dave's rubbing her legs. I'm watching her and having her wiggle her toes. She's also scrunching her nose at me to get her thinking of other things and of course....the first one doesn't work. They can't find a vein. We have to wait a little bit and then try again. Thank goodness they got it on the second time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The next step is for Ashley to be wheeled to the radiology department for xrays. Dave went with her for this one. I had asked if we should stay behind or one parent go and the tech asked for only one to go seems the space is limited. Dave was awesome to jump up and say he would go with her. I stayed back in the room patiently waiting until she came back. It was nice that before she left for xrays, they gave her some pain medication. So by the time they wheeled her back in she was feeling much better and getting a tad bit sleepy. Plus by now, her adrenaline is probably starting to wear off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">As the doctor's and nurses would come in to check Ashley's arm, they would move the sling to take a look and each time they were finished, Ashley would quickly ask them to cover it back up because she didn't want to look at it. However, before we got too far in the repair process, Dave and I decided that we should probably take a few photos for prosperity sake.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">In order to straighten her arm, Ashley needed to be put to sleep. She would be given two types of medication. The first one would put her to sleep. The second one would put her in a trance and give her amnesia. They would then put Ashley's arm in Chinese handcuffs, attach a weight to her arm and set the bones. They would then put her in a splint.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Dave and I were informed how the medication was going to effect Ashley. She would be asleep but her eyes would probably be open. While they were open, her eyes would shake. She possible could whimper or cry out while they were fixing her arm but because of the amnesia drug, she wouldn't remember anything. The combo of meds they were going to give her were used together because they wear off quickly so within 15 minutes she would be starting to wake up and wouldn't remember a thing. We were also told that some people can handle the setting of the arm and some can't. At this poin</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">t, I said, "Well, he'll be staying but I'm leaving."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Before you knew it the room was starting to fill with people. The respiratory therapist arrived and got Ashley hooked up to some oxygen. Nurses were in the starting to push the medications. The original doctor, Dr. Stolworthy was in giving final instructions to my guess the doctor that was in training. At this point I looked at Dave and said, "I'm going down the hall to find the restroom. You come and get me when it's all over." And out I went.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I slowly made my way back to the ER room and could hear that the arm had been set and they were starting to wrap it in the splint. Dr. Stolworthy came out and said that it went back together rather well. I finally m</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">ade my way back in the room to see that her arm was still in the Chinese handcuffs and they were wrapping it in the ace bandages. Ashley was just starting to come awake at this point. Dave mentioned to me that the cries she made of ouch, ouch, ouch, she wouldn't remember. It's probably a good thing that I didn't hear these cries because I might have started to cry and that moment as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">After the arm was all wrapped, radiology came back in to do some portable xrays. I stepped out of the room and called Hannah to check in and make sure all was going okay at home. This was probably the second or third time I had checked on Hannah and Ashley. They were doing great at home and Hannah had really stepped up to the plate and taken great care of Ashley.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">When the xrays were done, I stepped back in the doorway to hear Ashley in a really groggy voice say, "Hi mommy!" This is after I had heard her say, "Hi Daddy!" Then she looked at the nurse sitting to the side of her bed who also happened to be Dave and waved to him. He was really cute and said, "Hi Ashley. How are you feeling."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The time finally arrived that she was cleared to be sent home. They took out the IV from her arm, which she said felt really weird. They brought her in a high fashioned sling of her very own to take home and a few doses of Lortab to get us through the night until we could get to a pharmacy the next day to fill her prescription. And the cool thing....she got ride #2 in a wheelchair!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">All said and done, the incident happened about 6:30 p.m. We checked into the ER at 7:15 p.m. and arrived home at 11:00 p.m. to find Hannah and Nicole all snug as bugs in a rug. Hannah was asleep in her bed and she made Nicole a bed on the floor next to her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Everyone was tucked in to bed and we started the night process with Ashley. She did rather well though. She woke up at 12:30 a.m. needing pain meds. She wanted to sleep on the floor next to our bed so we moved her on in. She was once again hot and so sleeping in our room actually made it so the ceiling fan could blow on her. She slept clear until 8 o'clock the next morning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">What a trooper! Even though it was a painful few days, Ashley did amazing and really didn't complain a whole lot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The one xray shows that the bone has moved a bit. The doctor explained that the bones try to move back into the fractured position. The doctor we are dealing with is the PA of the office. He had to leave for a bit to go and get a consult from the overseeing doctor to make sure the bone hasn't moved too far and that it's still going to heal straight. He came back and said that we're still OK for the healing but they aren't going to think about casting it until Monday. they still want more swelling to go down and they want to make sure the bone isn't going to move any further.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The doctor did explain that when she comes back in, they will once again hook her up to the Chinese handcuffs and they will cast her arm in that position. I'm currently not sure how I'm feeling about this. I'm already a bit nervous and a bit nauseous. I might have to have Dave step in and take her to this appointment. So for now.....we're on hold. She's so active though. She is a hard girl to keep down. I guess that's why it's good to break bones when you're young because you just keep on going.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The girls joined a new singing group this year called Singing Starz due to their TaVaci group ending. They had their winter concert on December 8. We got to the concert with the camera in hand only to realize that the batteries were dead. So, thanks to my good friend Jenn Hopkins, I got a few snapshots of Nicole stealing the show as Prancer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm pretty sure we celebrated Thanksgiving. Hmm....guess it's not too exciting taking pictures of everyone eating turkey. I know for sure we celebrated Thanksgiving in Mendon with Grandma Peterson joining us. The Friday after Thanksgiving we headed to Nibley and celebrated with the Welker's.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Guess I better work on my picture taking!</span>The Mendon Welkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725328968854291360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8274452954474684595.post-14614396307543124492013-11-17T21:32:00.000-07:002013-11-30T21:24:09.911-07:00October 2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From my last post, we know that Nicole turned 5 and she was pretty proud of it. This totally was the highlight of October. However, a few more events happened as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"><strong>Final Camping Trip</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">We closed out of camping season the first weekend of October (Conference) with our group of friends at Downata Hot Springs in Idaho. I remember it being really cold. Cold enough that we forgot to unhook the water hoses from our trailers during the night and woke up in the morning to no water because the hoses had frozen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"><strong>Hannah went to Teton Science School</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Hannah's 5th grade class had the awesome experience of going to the Teton Science school in Wyoming. We dropped her off in the school parking lot on Sunday, October 7, and picked her up on Wednesday, October 10.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">It was so hard as a parent to drop off my 10 year old and send her without one of her parents for four days. The nice thing was the school IT guy accompanied the kids to the science school, took pictures and posted them to a blog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Hannah is not a girl of many words so she won't really say if she enjoyed her experience or not. This was the first year that they didn't allow parents to accompany the kids; they only took teachers. I think she might have been more excited if Dave would have gone but all in all I hope she had a great time. We were sure glad to have her back home!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">These are pictures Hannah took while on her trip:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Dave and I didn't go on the trip but we sure learned a thing or two. Who knew there was a geyser in Soda Springs, Idaho?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nicole's Singing Starz group performed "When you Wish Upon a Star" at a Stake Function. I think she makes a beautiful Snow White</span>.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Finally, I'm not sure what I was thinking but I don't have any pictures of Nicole and Ashley playing fall soccer. Must be a slacker of a mom! But they both played and had a fun time.</span></div>
The Mendon Welkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725328968854291360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8274452954474684595.post-90681869030342557382013-10-01T21:45:00.000-06:002013-10-01T21:45:04.718-06:00Nicole Turns 5<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nicole had a fun 5th birthday! She is attending Morningside School's kindergarten class both in the morning and in the afternoon. To start her birthday off, she brought Halloween cupcakes for both classes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and the most anticipated present of all was the brand new bike! Why I do not have pictures of this I do not know. We surprised her by hiding the bike in the back of the van and taking her out into the garage and opening the van for her to find he bike. She rode it for a bit outside but it was cold so we brought it inside for her to try out. <em>She loves it</em>!</span></div>
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The Mendon Welkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725328968854291360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8274452954474684595.post-24289710745447094002013-09-29T21:54:00.001-06:002013-09-29T21:54:14.077-06:00Back at It.....I hope<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has been way too long since I have posted on my blog!! I have a new goal to get it done so I can have blog books made for Christmas. I am embarrassed to see that I only had one post left to add and then I could get my blog book made for October - September. Yikes! Oh well, at least I know I can now have one book made for Christmas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope to at least put a couple of posts on each week to get caught up. Guess we'll see how that works. I feel like the weeks fly by and all we're doing is chasing the girls and holding on for the ride.</span><br />
The Mendon Welkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725328968854291360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8274452954474684595.post-56651462529216904162013-09-29T21:50:00.005-06:002013-09-29T21:50:43.559-06:00Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White and......Ashley<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The girls were outside playing in the backyard. I'm not really sure what the game was called but it's looking like a mixture of Little Red Riding Hood (pink), Snow White and who knows what Ashley is suppose to be.</span><br />
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The Mendon Welkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725328968854291360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8274452954474684595.post-39054569846788360462013-02-25T19:00:00.000-07:002013-02-25T19:00:00.579-07:00Spanish Dancing<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hannah and Ashley decided to try Spanish Dancing at school. This is a club that they do every Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 8 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. They enjoyed trying it for the first little while but then it became too much of a hassle getting out of the house early enough for them to get to practice. I give them credit for trying. They did great! I think they mostly enjoyed to big skirts. I can't say I blame them. I would have loved to twirl in one of those things myself.</span><br />
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The Mendon Welkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725328968854291360noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8274452954474684595.post-91644671304920666192013-02-24T19:13:00.000-07:002013-02-24T19:13:11.346-07:00Nicole's First Soccer Season<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fall of 2012 was Nicole's first soccer season. What did she think of it? Well, she thought socializing was way more fun. She played a team that had a little boy on it from her preschool. I caught her many times sitting on the side line "chatting" with him while he sat out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">If she wasn't chatting, she was chasing the ball....way far behind. Ah, to be four and innocent. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">However, when Ashley was playing (not sure why I don't have any pictures of her) Nicole was always on the sideline yelling for her to get the ball. Hmm....maybe next season she'll take her own advice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I didn't do very good this season. I only have one good picture of Nicole and I don't have any of Ashley. Shame on me! I have to do better!!</span><br />
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The Mendon Welkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725328968854291360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8274452954474684595.post-68999055029344684082013-02-11T17:00:00.000-07:002013-02-11T17:00:04.411-07:00Nicole starts Preschool<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">August 27, 2012</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nicole Starts Preschool</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nicole's birthday is in October so she has another year before going to kindergarten. Aunt Emma decided watching her would be too difficult because she wouldn't have any little ones at home for Nicole to play with. So, we decided to have Nicole to go all day preschool. The school decided to go ahead and have her do the kindergarten curriculum where her birthday is so close. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So....off she goes.....</span><br />
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The Mendon Welkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725328968854291360noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8274452954474684595.post-37130544992431316852013-02-10T17:00:00.000-07:002013-02-10T17:00:06.276-07:00Hannah and Ashley Start School<div style="text-align: center;">
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The Mendon Welkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725328968854291360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8274452954474684595.post-35628100392466229612013-02-09T20:35:00.002-07:002013-02-09T20:35:35.721-07:00Kiera<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In May, Kiera came to join our family so Hannah could do 4H and show her at the County Fair.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">We enjoyed having Kiera with us, however, her anxiety issues of being left alone were a little too much to bear. Sad to say, she returned home to her owner in October after we had exhausted every avenue in trying to calm her down.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">While we had her though, the girls loved her. She was an awesome dog....when we were home with her. When she was alone.....well....she had her issues. We were sad to see her go because we really wanted her to become apart of our family but we knew we needed to send her back so she could spend her days with the other dogs and not be so scared anymore.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Here's some pictures we took of Kiera while we had her with us:</span><br />
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The Mendon Welkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725328968854291360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8274452954474684595.post-39011643391556770182013-01-31T19:00:00.000-07:002013-01-31T19:00:03.049-07:00The Earring<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When we are with our camping group, there is nothing that can't be done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">We were camping in July at Beaver Mountain. Cheryl was talking about her earring that had grown into her ear because she'd left it in so long and it hadn't been twisted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Well....only one thing had to be said and Dave went a runnin' for the pliers. Before ya knew it, the earring was out and a bit hole was left.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The facial expressions on Cheryl crack me up!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span>The Mendon Welkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725328968854291360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8274452954474684595.post-5512956528276311942013-01-30T21:33:00.002-07:002013-01-30T21:33:57.002-07:00Piano Recital<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This year's piano recital was later than normal. The piano teacher tries to have it the end of May or June. Why so late this year? She was nice enough to wait until Hannah got her cast off. Ah, that was nice. But then we had to wait for vacations to end and then the recital could occur.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The recital was held on July 2. The girls were transported to the recital in the "limo". Yep.....the new six-seater golf cart. We have named it the "limo". This thing goes pretty fast too. On the way home, we passed some bikers. At least they found the humor in being blown past by a golf cart. They started laughing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Both Hannah and Ashley did a great job with the pieces they played. Here's a few pictures of them:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What lesson was learned at this recital? This teacher is all about business. So....don't be late.....even by 10 minutes and expect to see your grandkids perform. Yep, Grandma and Grandpa Welker were just a few minutes late and missed both girls. But they were nice enough to play their pieces again so Grandma and Grandpa could hear them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I hope Grandma and Grandpa don't get offended that I put that in this post but how can I not......it's for posterity sake. Hannah just came and leaned down to the side of me to see what I was posting and asked if I was going to put in the wording that Grandma and Grandpa were late. So....she thought it was classic. I think it should be journaled.</span></div>
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The Mendon Welkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725328968854291360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8274452954474684595.post-18872457242699762402012-11-21T20:54:00.001-07:002012-11-21T20:59:00.224-07:00Welker Reunion 2012<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This year the Welker Reunion was held in Ashley National Forrest. Who knew there was a Forrest named after Ashley? Not me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The bumpy (I mean<em> really</em> bumpy) road the last seven miles to get into camp</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Losing our gray water tank off the trailer while driving out on the seven miles of the<em> really</em> bumpy road.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Mia (Erin's dog) and Syrie (Roper's) not really liking each other.</span></div>
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The Mendon Welkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725328968854291360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8274452954474684595.post-35250194374405245802012-11-21T20:34:00.002-07:002012-11-21T20:34:12.514-07:00Happy Father's Day<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The girls sure love their Dad and I kind of like him too. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">For Father's Day we showered him with a few gifts, lots of hugs and a bunch of kisses.</span><br />
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The Mendon Welkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725328968854291360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8274452954474684595.post-15529037628396221442012-11-20T19:55:00.003-07:002012-11-20T19:55:49.756-07:00Hogle Zoo<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The girls and I kept our annual tradition of visiting Hogle Zoo in the springtime. Dave wasn't able to go with us this year so we were accompanied by Grandma Peterson.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The girls finished school the Friday before Memorial Day. We took advantage of everyone else still returning to school after the holiday and headed to the Zoo on May 31.</span><br />
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The Mendon Welkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725328968854291360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8274452954474684595.post-85006012372978115092012-11-16T20:16:00.000-07:002012-11-16T20:19:54.086-07:00TaVaci Spring Concert<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">May 12, 2012 was the girls' TaVaci Spring Concert. Little did we know that it would be their last TaVaci concert. The lady that was over the TaVaci group decided after 13 years to be done. Her son graduated from the program and her daughter had a couple of more years but didn't really like it. We received the e-mail in July where she said she was going to be done and I actually started to cry. The girls learned so much with this group. It was am amazing experience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The girls have since joined another singing group but it just isn't the same. They could have done the Smithfield TaVaci group but I really didn't want to travel to Smithfield two days a week. Especially in the winter. I know that seems rather silly coming from a girl that grew up in Smithfield.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">So....here's some photos of the last TaVaci concert:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">She actually got her cast off the day before the concert. She was a bit conscience of not getting it hurt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her age group did a bunch of songs from the movie <em>Grease</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pretty cool song using black lights and neon gloves</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her facial expressions crack me up! I could have put all of the pictures on here but that would have made for a large post. I picked the ones that I thought were the cutest. She is so dramatic!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">They were suppose to show attitude in this song. Ya think she's got it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Nicole was determined that she was going to wear her May Day skirt for graduation. I think she looks pretty cute!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Graduation was held in the backyard at the preschool. The kids sat up front and sang the audience songs that they learned throughout the year. Nicole sat on the front row and did an awesome job singing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Leaving the graduation and seeing all that she learns at this school, this helped me make the decision that this is where she needed to go in the fall for daycare. Aunt Emma was sad not to be watching her anymore but Marissa would be going to 1st grade and that wouldn't leave anyone for Nicole to play with. After seeing how Nicole has been progressing this year, we have decided that this was the place for her to be.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Here's come cute photos from graduation:</span><br />
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