The Calamity Family

Here we are: The Calamity Family. We get so many stares out in public. Caleb in his cast and wheelchair, Ken with his broken foot, and me 8 months pregnant. We will be having our baby no later than June 27th. In fact, I have a scheduled C-section that day. So remember me over the next month. Most people are shocked when I tell them I have a month to go. I look like I'm ready any day now. But we aren't ready. We have some casts to get off first.
My Mom and Dad came out to help me. And they sure did help a lot. I'm so blessed that they could visit. I can't even list the amount of things they helped us do around the house. Painting, laundry, mowing the lawn, cleaning, helping with Caleb. Spoiling Caleb...hahaha...I guess that's what grandparents are for. While they were visiting my Mom and Dad celebrated 39 years of marriage!!!! Do they look old enough to have been married that long? This is Caleb standing up on his cast. We could call him Cowboy Caleb because his legs are a little bowed. I don't know if he is suppose to stand, but It's kind of hard to stop him. He gets around really well.
This is Caleb on his last day of Preschool. We only stayed about an hour, but I think he enjoyed it. I couldn't have done it without my Mom helping me unload him and the wheelchair.

Mother's Day

Here is what we have to do to get Caleb hooked up in the Car.
This is at the emergency room in Charlotte.

Well, we hope you all had a wonderful Mother's day. Ours was quite interesting. Caleb developed a rash all over his body and a sore on his back. The cast looked like it was wet and so we ended up at the Dr Office and then to the ER in Charlotte. Luckily everything was OK. Caleb's sore had cleared up and the rash was caused by his fever a few days before. The other interesting thing that happened was Ken broke his right foot and ended up at Urgent Care that same day. He actually broke it on Friday night though. Let me tell you what a sight we were on Mother's day. I'm eight months pregnant, Caleb is in his cast in a wheelchair, and Ken is limping with crutches. We had quite a few stares. Ken was suppose to go to Isreal this Friday, but I think someone(God) is telling us not to go through with it. All we can do is have a sense of humor about the whole thing. I just pray that I don't go into premature labor. That would not be good. We are doing good because our church has showered love on us. We have been blessed by so many people, who have shared their concern and food. God is Good.

Well, Friday on May 5th, Caleb fell off his playset and hasn't walked on his leg ever since. He just wanted to lay down the rest of the evening and we thought we would wait til the morning to see how he was feeling. Things didn't change, so we took him to his pediatrican, who sent us to the hospital for x-rays. The x-rays showed that the bone broke in the spot where Caleb had developed a cyst.

Anyway, Caleb ended up being put under for the casting which is past his belly button and down his entire leg and halfway down the other leg. Luckily he got it in his favorite color (rojo) red. (Caleb calls red "rojo"). He also went through an MRI to check the cyst on his bone. We will know more when we have our follow up appointment. We spent the night in the hospital. Don't know how anyone gets any rest in the hospital, but anyway we made it home on Sunday.

We just want to ask for prayers for our family. I am due in 7 weeks with our second baby and Caleb will probably get his cast off at about 6 weeks from now. I can't lift him--he is about 50 pounds with the cast on. It's hard for me not to be able to hold him since this will be the last few weeks we will only have just our Caleb. We are so proud of Caleb for the sport he has been. He just jibber jabbers away to himself and seems to be in good spirits.

We went to BaaMoo Farm and Caleb had a lot of fun. We saw goats, sheep being sheared, donkeys, chickens, you know all that stuff you see on a farm. The funny thing about this picture is Caleb got his head stuck in the hole. I guess his head is getting bigger. I suppose I should stop telling him how cute and adorable he is....but I won't ever do that.