Highlights:
Olivia and I took a trip to the monastery at the end of June. I don't think she cared much about the religious and monastic elements, but she did enjoy having a couple of days alone with me. It's a four hour drive, so we had plenty of time to chat in the car. Once at the monastery there were services, of course, but we also had time to walk around the grounds and to do a puzzle that we found in the library.
Kaitlyn just finished up her CYO kickball season. She was the smallest one on the team (coed 3rd-6th), but she did pretty well once she stopped being intimidated. In the championship game she kicked the ball that put the winning run on third. It was a sacrifice play, so she was a little disappointed that she didn't actually make it onto the base, but was happier once I explained what happened. Her team won the championship, which was very exciting, and she's already talking about playing next year.
Matthias broke his arm getting off the trampoline. Usually trampoline injuries are from falling badly, but he somehow hit his wrist just right on the plastic slide the kids use to climb up and down. We didn't know it was broken for a week because there was no swelling and it didn't seem to bother him after the initial injury. A week later he was complaining about it again, and I decided to take him to urgent care. It seemed ridiculous, though, because he was using his hands to run up the slide as I was grabbing my purse. The nurses at urgent care poked and prodded and gauged his complete lack of reaction and decided they were going to get an x-ray just in case before sending us home with a soft brace for a sprain. After seeing the x-rays, though, they told me that, to everyone's surprise, his wrist was actually broken and we needed to head to OIO for a cast. It turns out he had a small buckle fracture that was placed just in a spot that didn't get much jostling. He has a cast now for the next 6 weeks. It will be off before school starts, but on long enough to keep him from doing much swimming this summer.
We spent a week this month in Hocking Hills with all of my family having a reunion to celebrate mom and dad's 40th wedding anniversary. Instead of one giant house, we opted for 1 large house and 2 small houses nearby so that we were all within walking distances but still had places to take breaks and let babies nap. We had a lot of fun. I cannot currently find all the pictures (most of them not taken by me), so I'll have to create a separate post for that later.
Pictures:
A dress I made for a color party. The hem is a little wonky, so I might need to fix that sometime.
Matthias and his cast:
Our newly reorganized game shelf:
