** UPDATE ** May, June & July

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Here is the long awaited update on the boys ..........

Calahan got his eyes checked out in May.  He needs reading glasses, but he has for years now.  He could go without them, it's a mild prescription.  Much like mine.

Calahan had his first date with his girlfriend :)   Even though they have been dating for about 2 1/2 years.

They went to see Fast 6 at the theater and then we went over to my mom's for a BBQ ...

He's growing up so fast, it's hard to believe in 6 months he'll be 18.   We'll be taking his Senior pictures soon!!

He's such a handsome guy :)

Nathan and Noah at the Ped's office - Noah is NOT happy ...  

Noah  is never happy going to the DR ...  but this day, he was exceptionally grouchy...  LOL.   Noah has a habit of not telling the whole *truth* when he's at the DR.   About what hurts or what's going on.  He'll say he's fine.  He hates the DRs and it causes him a ton of anxiety.

Noah at the doctors 

I had the shock of my life the day of their Ped Well Child....  Noah had gained weight, and height - which is a great thing!  Trust me I'm not complaining about that.   I have also, over the past few months, noticed stretch marks, and he's gotten a little mustache, and a tiny amount of under arm hair....   but when the DR pulled his pants down to check his boy parts, I was NOT expecting what I saw.  I was one of those cartoons with the mouth hanging open.  The other child (who won't be named, but he's older) ... itched and itched and itched, so we knew he was changing, but Noah's never complained.  It was bizarre.  I knew he had started puberty, thought it was too early but according to the experts blah blah blah .. its normal.   What the F*** do they know?  

Now normally I wouldn't talk about that stuff, but ...... I have one of those Mommy moments you want to rewind and take back.   Still reeling from shock, when we got home...  I marched Noah into the kitchen were Dennis was and proceeded to try to pull down Noah's pants to show Dennis do something really embarrassing, and Noah squealed with embarrassment and I snapped out of my shock.  It was a - WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING - moment.   I wasn't thinking, I was in shock.  My 1lb 12oz preemie has HAIR down THERE.  Rewind.  Walk in the door.  "Hey Honey, we're home ....... GUESS WHAT!!!   It's confirmed, Noah's started puberty."  Walks into bedroom.  Yep, that's how it should have went.  

Dumb Mom.......

So ... let's see, what was next.....

Beginning of June we went to Seattle for Noah's Nephrology appointment. If you don't know what Nephrology is... it's the kidney Dr.   So we had a check up with him and Noah's still pretty stable.  They did some blood work but it seems it turned out all good since I haven't heard anything otherwise.  We all went that day ......

After that appointment we went to what we thought was going to be an Orthodontist appointment, but all it was - was another pediatric dentist.  We already have one of those.  She told us the only way to get orthodontics covered by insurance was through Cranial Facial   ...  Now, Noah use to see Cranial Facial   in WI and I dropped the ball on that specialty when we moved here.  So we got a referral to the one that is at Seattle Children's (that Nathan sees) ...  so I'm hoping maybe there is a chance, but I doubt it.  I'm not holding out any hope on that so we're trying to raise money for it.

So ...  Noah's oral surgery was scheduled for the end of June and the dentist we saw above made me feel as if the only way to get Noah Orthodontics was if we went through them and saw the surgeon that she wanted to do the oral surgery, because she was the one who did the orthodontics through Cranial Facial  ... but our local Pediatric Dentist, whom we know and love - had already scheduled the surgery ...  so we decided to go ahead and do the surgery.  So in late June we went in... it was Nathan's last day of school.  I got Nate in the van and Dennis called my cell and asked if I left yet, cuz they called to see if we could come in early.  So Noah came out, we dropped Nathan off, and then I took Noah to the dentist.  She did the surgery right at her office.  So she came out and told me they pulled 17 baby teeth out of his mouth.  You have 20 baby teeth that you lose between (normally) 6 and 12.  He had lost only 3, and those were always a pain to get out, they were loose forever - not for lack of trying, they just didn't want to fall out.  Much like the rest of his baby teeth.  But all his adult teeth were coming in around or behind the baby teeth ...  Noah had three rows of teeth ...his baby teeth in front, the front two adult teeth behind those, and then the two teeth that are suppose to be beside the front to teeth behind the adult front teeth ... on both his upper and lower jaws.  He has an incredibly small jaw. She also fixed a couple cavities he had - no more No Cavities Club for him.

So yeah....   he came home with 17 teeth in a bag, and 12 teeth in his mouth ...

He is still struggling with eating stuff.  Most of his adult teeth are coming up all at once now that the baby teeth are out of the way.  

Also Noah saw Orthopedics about his legs.  Now, Orthopedics says it's not an Ortho issue, and sent us to a Rheumatoid Arthritis doctor.... we just saw him, and he says - that he doesn't *think* he has it.  Even if it makes sense with his symptoms he doesn't have the wear and tear that would come with having it all his life untreated.  He's not saying he absolutely doesn't - but he says because he came in symptom free, and from what he saw, he doesn't think he has JRA...   so we still don't know why Noah's legs are in pain all the time.

Nathan has officially graduated Kindergarten!

 He was so proud :)

So in May, Nathan had another appointment with Dr. G in Urology, Dr. B's colleague whom trained under him, and hes going to be the one handling Nathan's hypospadious/undecended testicle surgery.  We liked him enough, still like Dr. B better but he's not doing surgeries at the hospital anymore and since Nathan will be staying in the hospital, it has to be done at the hospital.  Dr. B promised we were in good hands though.  Dr. B did his last surgery (2nd one) and the first one was done in Wisconsin.  This will be his 3rd surgery, and even this may not be the last.   They are going to be taking some skin from inside his cheek to put around his urethra to try to bring it to the tip of his penis since it's still on the underside.

Nathan absolutely LOVES the dyson hand dryers..... he will keep using them over and over and over and over...  LOL....  and he laughs when he's doing it...  

Nathan's self portrait drawn on one of the dry erase boards at the DR.  He's a happy mutant cyclopes... but at least he's smiling! 

Then we saw Dr. P (ENT) and we talked about his surgery ... and he wanted to look at Nathan's ears.  He said ... his left ear is con-caved in right now with the tube out.  He talked about taking his tonsils and adenoids out...  and they were going to try to schedule both surgeries together.  But he forgot about the talking about taking the tonsils and adenoids out.  So we had to go back to see him to talk about that again.  @@  LOL...   it is what it is, right?   So got that all squared away, and he decided to NOT take out his adenoids.  So hes going to get tubes and then his tonsils and because of his fragility - he'll be staying over night for that too.  :/

Because, after waiting a month and a half, FINALLY got a call with a date and found out they couldn't schedule them together.  I know that Dr. P wanted it done ASAP because of the way its affecting him.   So I just had them schedule them separately....  his Urology one will be August 2nd (next week, er, a week from tomorrow) and the ENT one will be September 3rd.  

So in other news, one hot afternoon when moods were boiling, Nathan pissed off Kaedyn somehow (really, its not that hard) and Kaedyn picked up a full 2 liter bottle of soda (Mt. Dew to be specific) ... and THREW IT AT NATHAN hitting him in the head.  He came crying and screaming and blood GUSHING out of his nose ..  (I have pictures of the massacre but I won't share, cuz it looks like someone was murdered.)  Anyway - I knew he probably broke his nose, but it wasn't obvious like Noah's had been when he broke his in Aug. 2011.  So we took him to see the same DR.  Noah had seen when he broke his.  Anyway, it was a process.  We didn't take him in the night it happened because we took Noah to the ER with an OBVIOUS break, and they hemmed and hawed over if it was broken or not, they TOLD Dennis it wasn't but then send them home with paperwork that said it was!  Regardless, Noah saw the local ENT the following day and he said it was absolutely broken.  So - we felt it was pointless if they couldn't tell that Noah's broken nose was broken, Nathan's wasn't obvious - so they'd say it wasn't.  So the day after it happened, he woke up with brusing in the corner of his eyes by his nose, and across the bridge of his nose.   We took him into the Ped to get the referral to the ENT, and had to stop for x-rays in between.

The verdict.  Hair-line Fracture.  It would heal in 6 to 8 weeks.

Nathan has also been having a lot of asthmatic coughing spells so we've increased his nebby treatments.  He is really good now for them though, sits there like a champ!

This is Nate and Kaedyn playing one hot day under the A/C in the master bedroom ...  it's a one room A/C.  They kept themselves occupied with their Leap pads.  

Eating a snack after therapy one day.  Nathan still had therapy so ... Nathan was HAWNGRY so we got a snack.  Got Noah some too for after his therapy.

This was BRIBERY ..  I found this at Goodwill and it was only a couple dollars, Nathan LOVES Angry Birds.  So this was bribery to put on short sleeves because he just won't.   So - it obviously worked!  Once he's in them and he's not throwing a fit, he's okay.  It's putting it on and fit ensues....  

This is another day at Seattle Children's with the Dyson Hand Dryers ....  LOL

 They make him so happy!

Nathan got his Sure Steps that he was fitted for w/ the last update.  He actually enjoys wearing them.  They said socks on the inside, and always have shoes on, well, that's easy for them to say.  Nathan is mostly inside and he doesn't wear shoes inside, he barely wears socks....  so we put socks on the inside after Mommy got to see them on his (bare) feet and put slippers on, that works.... right?   We also figured we could just put socks on the outside too if he wanted that ...  that way, not so slippery ...   hospital socks!  Or socks with treads on the bottom....   note to self, steal many hospital socks while in the hospital ....  and get socks with threads....

 He did have some redness after wearing them for awhile....

Nothing makes me happier then those moments where Nathan is giving me those true smiles.  Like this.  Not the smiles to appease me ... the ones where I have to say "Look at Mom" a hundred times and "Smile" fifty.   No - this is a spontaneous smile...   this is the best smile EVER ...

He got to go bare back riding at our friend Lisa's one day recently ...   he didn't like bare back riding much...

But he had a BLAST leading De around.  And just look at that picture.  He is a 6 year old little boy who is the size of a two year old, leading a horse around.   WOW right?

We got Nathan's new ear pieces for his hearing aids today.  This is what he picked up....

Kaedyn got signed up for his THIRD year of Pre-school.   This bummed me out soooooo much.  Kaedyn is totally 100% ready for Kindergarten - first kid who is very clearly ready.  But he missed the cut off by EIGHT DAYS!!!!   Ugh....  the cut off is Sept. 1 and his b-day is Sept. 9.   Yep, 8 days....

Kaedyn went back to the eye doctor and got a new pair of glasses, a little weaker prescription ... he went with Daddy and picked out his own glasses and was much more open and not as shy during the whole process so it worked much better...  Here is my handsome guy with his new glasses.

At the end of school they sent home a whole bunch of artwork......

And here he is with this end of the year diploma

He also drew his first self portrait for me .......

I always knew he was a box head.  Wait........ since he's a mini-me, does that mean I'm a square head?

For a little treat, here is Nathan, Kaedyn and Mickey Mouse at Seattle Childrens ...

And one last thing, we have some new furries in our family right now.  Our Cat, Autumn, had kittens.  She had five - one had severe Spina Bifida ... she lasted over 24 hours, and then Cupid, was a white kitten with only an orange tail and an orange heart on the back of his head ...  he died of Kitten Vanishing Syndrome which is pretty much Failure to Thrive.  We tried to save him ...  it was really sad.

Marnie is our kitten herder ...  she literally runs around them keeping them on the bed... it's funny.   The kitten names,  Rex is the Orange one climbing on Marnie.  Abby is the one that she's "hugging" and Boo is the black and white Persian ...  we lubs them.   Originally we weren't going to keep any but we had to put our cat Mia to sleep.  So ...  yeah.  There went that theory.

And I think that's it for this update!!  Next will be some entries from the hospital for the first surgery, I'm sure....  

August Update ....

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I haven't updated in a long time......  I took a blogging break over the summer, for the most part.  After realizing there was NO WAY we were going to get to the conference, I honestly had a moment of ... grief, I suppose that's a good word.  I really wanted to get us there.  But the conference has come and gone, tons of families in our network went and I saw all sorts of blog posts & pictures .... it was all bittersweet ... seeing them with one another and then thinking, Nathan should be in that picture.

:: sigh ::

 Kaedyn has been running a 103 to 105 temp fever ... it has been driving me INSANE ...  from Thursday night to yesterday (Monday) ... I have been sleeping with a burning up baby in my bed and we don't have a big bed.  Barely have room for Dennis and I ...  add in a big baby and ... well...  I don't sleep much.  He has been MISERABLE ...  you can see more from my other blog with .... 104...IS NOT A GOOD NUMBER and 104 ... IS NOT A NICE NUMBER x2  ...  Thank freaking GOODNESS that he's FINALLY feeling better.  Hubby took him to the DR yesterday while I was on my way to Seattle with Nathan .... the DR confirmed she thought the same as the Urgent Care Doc on Saturday, that it's just some virus that is kicking his ass and not leaving names he can't seem to break threw... but GOOD NEWS is .... he has finally broken the fever and is starting to feel better.

ALSO ...... Noah broke his nose this summer!!! CRAZY!!!  You can read about that one my other blog right now .... ANOTHER BROKEN BONE and NOAH'S SURGERY ...  

I guess at the DR .... the nurse took Kaedyn back, and mind you - he suffers from clingontomommy syndrome ... and he had just watched me walk out the door without him, just before leaving with Daddy...  so he was still in that gonna break down and cry at any moment cuz I want my mommy area...  and the nurse said to him "Boy, o' boy, I know who your mommy is just by looking at you"  HA HA HA HA HA ....  and my poor little boy just burst into a bubble of tears with the pathetic "MOMMA" whines in there.  Yep...  ha...  oh and apparently the DR thought my note was funny cuz I put as a "symptom" ...  super crabby & and really clingy ... ha ha ....

Anyway ....  off to Seattle I went with Nathan yesterday...  for once I took no pictures...   We were going to the Cleft Palate Clinic to find out what our options are.  Nathan's school speech therapist told me towards the end of last year that he had air escaping when he was talking and she figured this was due to his cleft palate ... at the time we had the appointment made for June, but I had a brain fart and thought it was a couple days into the week, and it was on the Monday - oops.  So we had to reschedule it.   So we did ....  it's been long awaited because after Nathan was born (they discovered the HIGH SOFT CLOSED CLEFT PALATE we were told then or the SUBMUCOUS CLEFT PALATE.... we're told now.  One of the Doctors turned around and looked at me and said "He definitely has a submucous cleft palate" and I'm thinking ...  why else would we be here.

Oh and let me back up a bit...... what is it with every Doctor wanting to solve the mystery of Nathan!?!?!?  One of the Docs took one look at him yesterday and asked me "who diagnosed him with Russell Silver Syndrome?"  I told him, the Genetic Doc in WI and Dr. G confirmed it here ... "Genetically?" he asked.  I said ... "No, clinical diagnosis"  and he's all "Well he doesn't fit the classic RSS guide line" and I'm thinking - is this guy serious??? Then he's like "If I come up with any bright ideas, I'll let so-and-so geneticist know..." and didn't even say HIS geneticist ....  and then "We'll figure it out" .... like he's going to be the genius to suddenly figures it all out ... the mystery of Nathan ... 

SERIOUSLY!?!?!   UGH .......... yet another Doc not wanting to believe his RSS diagnosis ......

Anyway - Nathan first had an ultrasound of his kidneys and bladder done (all was great) ... and then he had appointment with Craniofacial Doc #1 ... DR. C ...  Dr. C was the one who is going to figure out the mystery of Nathan.  He is the division Chief ...   He came in, took a look at Nathan's cleft and humm'd and hawwww'd ...  and then he said that Nathan would have to have surgery for his cleft.  I asked "He'll definitely need surgery?"  He said "yes" ... then I asked how invasive it was and he says "Not invasive at all, we do it all the time, he'll just need a night or two in the hospital at the most...." ... yeah that's not invasive at all ... it's a walk in the park....  he (or his med student) asked me about "have you thought about doing the tube feedings" and I was like... "It's been brought up but I don't see how it would help given the history of the other RSS kids.." ... he's all "how so?" ...  "Well, lets see....  all the kids his age if they have g-tubes or not, everyone is still the same weight ... I don't see how it's beneficial ..."  Yep, that's right.  Not gonna subject my kid to that when I don't see how it helps any of the kids ...I have fought to hard to work with him to eat normally to throw it all away.  Now if he was losing weight and there were other issues, I might consider it, but I don't see any benefit to crossing that bridge... oh and he was talking to his intern and said "You know how palates are straight?  His is crocked, and then there is a bump, and then there's like jagged areas and ..."  Guess his palate isn't very pretty ...   but his dangling heart is one of the prettiest ones around!!

Speech comes in ...  Mrs. L ...  she sits an arm and half length away ...Nathan is GROWLING words at first, and then I get him to say a lot of things by reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar ...  she  eventually says that since he can say "Bubble" and "Purple" and "Go" and "Daddy" that his speech issue is NOT due to his Cleft Palate ... ooooooh-kay?  ...  that's what we've believed all this time.  Since it hasn't really get better other then his favorite words.  I should have explained to her that those are the words we work hard on because it's some of his favorite things....    She umhummed and ah-huh'ed everything ... and then asked a few times when he started speech therapy .... A FEW TIMES ...  so was she not paying attention?  And then she says "I don't hear any evidence of him losing air when he talks" and I'm thinking ... you never got close to him and he wasn't exactly cooperating!  She says "I think he has a disorder called Dyspraxia" .... where the muscles aren't connecting correctly with the brain and he can't seem to form the words properly.  It does take him a long time to master a word, and it takes a long time for him to master one sign (ASL) ...

So I don't know what to think....

So when Doc #2: Dr. P (the Clinic Chief .... so which is a higher position, the Division Chief or the Clinic Chief?) peeks in, she starts blubbering off things like .. "I am pretty sure he has SEVERE VERBAL DYSPRAXIA" and I'm thinking ...  why didn't she tell me she thinks it's severe?  I can't help wonder if this is due to his brain malformations?  So when she leaves, he takes a look ... listens...  shows his intern Nate's beautiful bifid uvula (upside down heart shaped uvula) ...  So this Doc says that surgery is iffy ....  then says, because Nathan had tubes put in his ears, and one has fallen out - the other is still in place ... (he had tubes put in NOT for ear infections but because he has thick fluid build up in his ears and can't hear) ...  he says if he doesn't pass in the ear he has the tube out of, then surgery is going to be necessary and if he does pass, then it probably won't be. 

The other thing that was brought up was an Augmentative/Alternative Communication Screening to see if an alternate form of communication could be beneficial to him ... 

Um........ DUH!

So .... some of the options are of course American Sign Language

but he doesn't have full motion in his hands so signing is hard for him AND he doesn't pick up on signs very well ...   He does do the following:  More, Go, All Done, Thank You, Eat, Please, Play, and we've worked on Bath but he doesn't have that down ...

Another option are Communication Boards

I have seen this implemented in the school system - they are these cards that the kids can point to what they want - or closest to ...  and you can better understand what they are trying to say.   I actually talked to the Special Education person at the school district building today and told her what they said yesterday (about the possible speech diagnosis) and she said she'd talk to the speech therapist at his school and since we already put that (the communication boards) in his IEP, they'd try to start doing that and get us some for home too.  YAY!  Who knows when the evaluation will take place and so ...  I want start using this stuff asap because he is getting increasingly frustrated when he can't get across what he's trying to say.

And in doing research I saw this little device, which looks really interesting ...  instead of having a book of cards, this little device holds them...  it's called a MINImo device...

At the end of yesterday, Nathan had to get his blood drawn ... I almost forgot about it....which I'm sure Nathan would have LOVED ... but right before getting in the elevator to leave, I remembered ...  ha ha ... Poor Nate...    Anyway, we check in and wait and wait and the guy calls us back with a little boy who's gotta be just over a year old...  not much smaller then Nathan (sad) ...  and he takes us back ... tells them to go in one room and us to go into the room directly across the hall.  That little boy was just screaming which was making Nathan extremely anxious, and making him cry.  Once the guy was poking that poor little boy (could tell by the change in screaming he was doing) Nathan was signing every thing he could to let me know HE DID NOT WANT TO BE THERE ANYMORE AND WE COULD GO NOW!!  He was signing GO and ALL DONE and he was doing this ... it's a new one, from watching America's Got Talent to much - it means STOP ... LOL... 

 Top one is with his socks on .. he's doing an X ... bottom one I manged to talk the socks off of him for a moment, had to put them right back on after...

He is so funny.   The guy came in and Nathan was just freaking out at that point...  and the guy FLICKED it into his vein... I'm serious, he just flicked it with his finger!!  Although he didn't really say a word to Nathan, he didn't try to comfort him in any way - infact, when Nathan was screaming from fear and anxiety, they get was laughing....  kinda pissed me off... but I got so distracted with the flicking of the needle....I didn't know if I should be appalled or impressed.... 

In other news, today - Noah's kidney Docs wanted to check out Nathan's kidneys just to be on the safe side...   the ultrasound and blood test were for that...  and I got the call today that everything is A-Ok and they don't foresee needing to see him anytime in the future.  YAY!

Update : Long over due...

I figured I better get an update out since I haven't been updating over the summer. I think I needed a break more then anything. So I will update in one big update, and will soon start Nathan's daily diary back up.

Calahan got his full arm cast off after 4 weeks and got a cast from his hand to almost his elbow for 2 weeks, and then he was in a brace for a week. He transferred from cast to brace on July 13th.

Otherwise he has been doing pretty good. He's about to go on a trip with his Grandma (his Dad's Mom) to South Dakota to go do all sorts of fun stuff.

He's been doing fairly well with his ADHD. We haven't started to homeschool regularly yet, but we'll be starting in September.









Noah has been doing well also. He seem has been sick a few times but I hope the mysterious fevers and such will stop now.

We decided to keep him out of school this year too and homeschool him. Maybe he'll catch up more with the more one on one attention and all that. Next year I think I will leave it up to him if he wants to go back to school or not, most likely Cal won't want to go back to school. But we'll see how this year works out for both of them.
















Nathan, well he's a story all on his own. He isn't gaining a lot of weight again. He's spitting out all his meds we give him other then his thyroid med (pill form, and we just give him the half pill at this point, we don't break it up anymore) ... We *think* he is still getting a touch of a migraine now and then, but no where NEAR where he had been before. His appetite has fallen again - we're trying to get everything in him we're suppose to (his pediasure and all that) ... He started to have nice gains and now I don't think he's gaining again.

We got his genetics tests back and EVERYTHING is normal. We were told the Russell Silver Syndrome came back negative too, but I had read somewhere that the genetics test doesn't always come back positive for RSS. So I'm not so sure that we're out of the woods there considering how well he fits that. I am going to do more research here and re-approach about it.

Right now he has Rotavirus. He's thrown up twice in the last week at night, and has had a fever of 102 come and go. He got tubes in over the summer and he is DEFINITELY hearing better. Talking wise is slowly and surely getting better. He surprised us one night by saying "what's that?" when the phone rang. Mind you only me and his Dad could probably understand half the stuff he says right now - but it's a step!









Kaedyn is doing great. He still has his bad eczema but it doesn't seem as bothersome as before. I'm still hoping that he grows out of it for the most part.

He has about 5lbs on Nathan right now, they are in the same sized clothes. He's got 4 teeth and a few more coming in, and he's getting ready to walk.

His first birthday is in a few weeks and I'm not ready to admit my baby is growing up.

He has the rotavirus really bad - he gave it to Nathan - I can only assume through cup sharing considering they are constantly going after each other's cups (well mostly Kaedyn after Nathan's cups) ... or Nathan is putting Kaedyn's paci in his mouth ... they like swapping germs. Regardless, after being completely unable to get a handle on his diaper rash he has gotten from having the constant poops ... we went in and found out they both had rotavirus and Kaedy's rash is so much worse, so red, sore, and tender, swollen and bleeding a little. He cries with every diaper change. It breaks my heart. Nathan's hadn't gotten that bad, so he still does okay. So I got stronger stuff for their butts, Nathan's seems to be clearing up nicely and Kaedyn's is getting slightly better.

Anyway - I think I touched up on everything.... I'll be back daily (or semi-daily) soon!!

Calahan's Broken Arm

The first broken bone... of my kids... you see. Yeah ... it's been ... an interesting weekend.

Friday night was nice, the weather wasn't hot, it wasn't too cold... so since Noah was over at his friends, and Cal was off on his borrowed bike (Cal's bike has been stolen twice, so we said we weren't going to buy him a new one for awhile, so his friend gave him one of his older bikes - they had fixed it up and such) ...

So Dennis and I decided to put the babies in the "Are they TWINS?" stroller and go for a walk. We live on a long road of duplexes. So we were walking down and we were about a block away from the end of the road when my neighbor's son, and another kid came up to us and said that Cal was hurt and on some one's steps down the road. Well ... we walked down there and Cal was sitting on the steps, a lady and a bunch of little girls around him. We asked him what happened and he said he fell off his bike.

So apparently - the lady saw it all happen but she didn't have a good view. She said she thought he hit the car that was parked, he went over the handle bars and then the bike flew up and when she got over there it was on top of him. She helped him over to her place and gave him her cell to try to call us (not knowing we were actually walking in that direction)

His friend says that he thinks the bike locked up and that Cal flew over the handle bars and then the bike flipped up and landed right on top of Cal.

Regardless - Calahan got a lot or road rash, he hurt his right leg up by his thigh, and I highly suspected he broke his left wrist. Dennis went back to our house, got his car, and came and got Cal, taking him to the ER - then I walked the babies home and waited. (Noah eventually came home from his friends too.)

Calahan at the ER .... see his right leg (thigh area) is twice as big as the left?
Sure enough - he broke something. Wasn't exactly his wrist, but it was his arm right by his wrist area... (they printed off a copy of the x-ray for Dennis to bring home and he folded it!!) The arrows are pointing to the breaks, and the boxes are around them - be broke BOTH arm bones...

He ended up getting a temporary "cast" and sling until Monday when I'm suppose to take him in to get his actual cast and talk to the Orthopedic...
A few examples of his road rash...

See the bruising on his arm (it's not real good)
Cal got moved upstairs and Noah was told he got to sleep in the top bunk so Cal could sleep in the bottom (Cal's room is in the basement, since he bruised the muscle in his leg, he could barely walk) ... luckily Noah's room is right next to the bathroom.
Calahan Saturday morning... unhappy as could be... poor kid :(
They ended up giving him vicodin and ibuprofen for the pain.

So he broke both main bones in his arm right by his wrist (or close to it) ... he bruised the muscle in his thigh on the right side (couldn't walk at all at first, and has been limping since)... and he got a lot of road rash. But it could have been worse! We see the orthopedic today (at lease that's the plan, I'm suppose to call and get something set up as soon as they open) ... and get his cast set.

His hand swelled up VERY VERY bad over the weekend - we've been keeping it elevated, iced, and keeping ibuprofen in him, but it only helps a little. We even called the ER and they said to loosen the bandages a little (but we already had) ... he still has circulation, it's just very very swollen! The ER nurse told us if we couldn't get it to go down to bring him in, but we could get it to go down some, and again, his circulation was fine... so we've just been keeping an eye on it