A fly by of August

So...August started off with this..

A trip to the pediatric orthopedist at the childrens hospital in Tacoma.....

And a cast for the last month of summer vacay

He apparently has something called Kohler's Disease (don't worry it's not catchy)  It's what they call it when the navicular bone for some reason temporarily loses it's blood supply and becomes fragile and collapses on itself, then it heals and should be just fine.  However, when the pt in question is a VERY BUSY 7 year old who never holds still it may not ever get a chance to heal if he never sits still.  So as the dr put it, the cast was a way to immobilize a bone on a kid who can't be immobilized.  Once his foot wasn't able to bend or flex the pain was gone and he was free to do whatever he could figure out how to do with a cast on.....which was anything and everything.

 The windows at the Childrens Hospital in Tacoma were Carleighs favorite part..

 We also had visitors in August!!!  Mimi and Dan came for a visit, the weather was perfect and we spent as much time as we could exploring, and well, I made Mimi carry our "little but heavy" cutie as much as I could get away with.

 One day we went to Burr Foot Park and hiked down to the beach we got to watch the sail boats and collect some shells

Keegan and his cast at Tumwater Falls park with Dan and Mimi

We also spent one day going out to the beach.....what a fun day that was...... It started with Carleigh crying the ENTIRE 90 min to the beach, I thought I was going to have a stroke!!  Once we were there and she was able to get out she was as happy as a clam!  Mimi and Dan thought it would be fun to see the lighthouse and climb to the top so while they climbed the kids and I took pics and just had fun outside.  After the lighthouse we drove just down the road to the beach, I like to think it was fun, I had fun, C had fun and even Keegan with 15 bags on his cast had fun......  Washington beaches are so much different than in Cali, Mexico or the Carribean I hope they had fun seeing ours.  

 And last of all, this little one got more brave and towards the end of the month started walking a few steps at a time.  She also realized she could reach all of her brothers legos.....this will be fun....