A wild couple of weeks

It's been a "wild" couple of weeks around our place since I last posted.

Kelsi ended up injuring her left knee, four days after her birthday at a friends house on a trampoline. We previously owned a trampoline for a few years and the kids spent hundreds of hours on it without ever getting an injury...but the one time she goes over to someone's house and gets on one...she got hurt. She ended up in the ER that evening and has been on crutches ever since. She saw an orthopedic today and they have an MRI lined up for Monday afternoon with a follow up again on Wednesday to give us the results. Hopefully, she did not tear anything, but it's a possibility which would require surgery. We're praying that she only dislocated her patella and with a few weeks of rehab, she'll be back to full activity. She only had three weeks left of her fastpitch season....so to say the least she's been really down not being able to play. She does attend every practice and game to cheer her teammates on - but does find it really hard to just sit and watch.

Daniel got his two pigs for 4H last weekend! So, once again we should be seeing a couple "pig rodeos" in our yard just like last year when they managed to escape. Trying to get two pigs back into a pen is one of the hardest things to do. He has not named them yet. He had "Ketchup" and "Mustard" last year and everyone thought those names were hysterical. Who knows where he came up with those names so I'm anxious to see what these two little pigs names will be. Daniel has been playing baseball games 2-3 times a week and is loving every moment of it. I'm not sure who looks forward to it more...him....or me! I love to watch him - not only is he amazingly talented but he plays with heart and everyone comments about it. I am so proud of my kids for always giving it their all when they do something.

We received notification for Maci's early entrance for Kindergarten testing. Hopefully she'll be testing right after school is out for the summer and we can begin preparing her for her first day of elementary school. Although her birth date is only five weeks after the cut off for Kindergarten they have offered to test her because of her circumstances. Unfortunately we will never know her exact birth date. When she was abandoned in the lobby of the children's hospital, she was extremely sick. She was checked and immediately sent to the orphanage where they said she "looked" like she was five months old...and assigned her a birth date. According to her surgeon in China that I still am in contact with, as well as our pediatricians, they believe she is at least a few months older than her given birth date. I would give anything to find out her real birth date because it is something that a person identifies with their entire life. Although she will be the youngest in her class, developmentally and socially she is definitely ready.

Well I'm off to get some cleaning done around here since we haven't been able to get much done lately.