Police car

Ambulance

FBI

FBI comand center

Fall Break Saturday

On Saturday we had arranged have a game day with our neighbors. So we pick up the kids from Janelle's house and ran them to the touch of truck event before coming home and cleaning the house for our neighbors to come. The touch of truck was really neat. They got to sit in a police transport wagon, and FBI Command Center, a fire truck, and ambulance, a tractor, a police car, a bucket truck and a garbage compactor. They saw the vacuum truck and the street sweeper too. All the kids loved it but Seth and Evelyn asked if they could come again.

They had free hotdogs and we saw our Bartholomew neighbors there. We rarely get to see them so it was nice to chat. 

This picture is the prisoner transport. The police officer was saying it was a timeout truck. So we put all of our kids in time out.

Harry Potter night

Fall Break

This Fall Break we ended up babysitting. It's nice to have the option. My friend does day care from her home for $20 a kid per day. When she's not available she sends people my way. This Fall Break I earned $80 for letting kids play with my kids. Thursday we used our pass and went to the farm country. One of the ponies kept biting everything it coul reach. It even bit Ada in the bum after this picture. The kids played cops and robbers and rode the ponies. We arranged to meet my friend Beth and her kids. That was fun.

Friday we stayed home. My cousin had back surgery so I watched her almost 3 year old. I didn't realize that we should keep the bathrooms shut and I ended up needing to bath him, change him, clean two bathrooms and pull toys out of two toilets. Now I know. Total between everyone, I ended up with 10 kids all day.  That night Janelle hosted us for a Harry Potter themed night. We played Hogwarts Battle, Bean boozled, drank butterbeer and watched Harry Potter. Then the kids slept over and we went home and cleaned the dishes. Ada particularly loved it.

Latest development

Evelyn has been complaining about pain in her feet and legs for about a year. We were told that it was probably from growing. She would be running or playing and just stop in her tracks to kneel down and say her feet hurt. I couldn't see anything so I took her in to the doctor when Seth was going in for a check up. They thought it was high arches. They referred her to a podiatrist. The podiatrist took one look, said she neede xrays and took some. Apparently she has a deformity in her feet called skewed foot. Her tendons pull one way and a bone in her ankle is too long and pushes her bones the other way. As she gets older, it will spread out more and hurt worse. Luckily they're not talking about surgery.... Apparently surgery for this is fairly involved... Cutting bones and tendons shorter.... Pinning them.... Thigh high casts for 3 months and learning how to walk on new feet. I've read that a lot of people have pain for years while they recover. They are recommending custom orthotics for her though. $400 a pair... And she's still growing so it will be pricey. I will still count ourselves lucky because with early intervention you can prevent a lot of problems later in her life with her feet, her knees and her hips.

As a side note, notice where Seth is standing in the picture. All my kids and my mom commented on how Seth is getting his nose picked with Evelyn's feet.