one of my dreams come true

We are the proud new owners of a Sony 55" Bravia SXRD TV! We've waited so long to get one, and this time there was a deal that couldn't be passed up. Shultis has an acqaintance that works at Best Buy, and he offered him an amazing deal on a TV (he said he could do it because the manager wasn't going to be there the next day). Shultis wasn't able to do it at the last minute, so I jumped on it. 35% off and 2 years no interest! Amazing deal.

So now all I have to do is start building the entertainment center / wall unit so we can actually plug it in a use it. Otherwise, there's no where to put it.

a mini tragedy

Poor JJ broke his leg. It's the saddest thing in the world to see him scooting along the floor in his full leg cast, isn't it. The story is this: While I was enjoying my one day off of full time parenting, JJ's trampoline bliss ended abruptly with an injury (as all children's fun usually does). He and his brothers play at a ward friend's house while I spend the morning teaching dance classes. I just happen to pay her to take them several more hours after that so I can get the house cleaned, projects finished, shopping done and about anything else I can think of that I took completely for granted before my house was over-run by 3 energetic boys.

Back to JJ. Being the unstoppable trooper that he is, apparantly JJ had a mystery accident while jumping on the trampoline then proceeded to wander around the house, eat dinner, etc. for a good hour after the incident occured, until either something snapped or he could ignore the pain no longer and he decided to lay on the floor and writhe clutching his leg close in a secluded room of the house until discovered. When I arrived to pick him up he was experiencing some shock and was overall a different child. A mother's first clue to knowing when something is serious. He was in a lot of pain if we tried to straighten his leg but there was no obvious malformation, protruding bone or swelling. So, we decided not to brave the torture of running to the emergency room (we already had a bad experience before with that) and we all slept on the case of the mystery leg injury.

Actually, we tried to sleep on it but JJ's bladder did not allow much of it. He was up every hour or so needing to go to the bathroom and as you can imagine, he is not walking at this time. He still won't even open his leg up without squeeling with pain. So helping him on and off the potty is our task to do. And folks it wasn't pretty.

To speed up this long winded explanation the next morning we took him in for x-rays and he had a fissure like break straight across his bone (tibia) just below the knee. There was no growth plate damage, and no shifting of the bone, thank goodness, so a cast without surgery was the solution. He should heal up in a month. Children are amazing...an adult would take 4 months to heal from this kind of break. But we do have to closely monitor the growth of the wounded bone over the years to make sure it doesn't outgrow the little bone (fibula) attached to it. That would make some messy complications to deal with. Since the cast was put on he has been much more pleasant but it has been an adventure hauling him around everywhere.

I'm lucky he's such a movie buff. He really would be content sitting on the couch all day in front of a movie. But I don't want his walking skills to regress back so far that he is surpassed by Aaron. And I would like him to, at some point, be able to escort himself to the bathroom before the 4 weeks are up. So we took him off the couch and set him in the middle of the floor so he would discover that he has 3 more limbs to move around with. After complaining for a minute he started scooting himself around a bit and he exclaimed "Look, I'm a snake", "Yes, JJ you can be a snake, or a doggie, or a crab!" we replied. We got him a little skateboard that he can use to roll around the house on his tummy. And we dusted off and we recharged the little electric bumper car we got two Christmas' ago so he can play outside with his friends. We also got a radio flyer wagon to drag him in for park trips that I plan to take the boys on now that the weather is getting lovely again.

Watch out!! Jenny's taking over.

I have always been the least technologically inclined person in my family. It's not due to a like of intellect (you chuckle I know it)...simply a lack of desire. Ironic that I married David, a true geek/gear head/computer geniuos as you will. And being a bit of a Bohemian I have a tendency, once I finally find out what "the crowd" is doing, to resist doing everything that is popular around me until I finally succumb to the pull once that thing becomes "yesterday's news". (if it's a good idea anyway) Examples: I do not own Crocks or those hideous snow boots everyone is wearing for that matter. I do not scrap book. For fear of offending more people i'll stop right there. I do not know if blogging is "yesterday's news" yet but I find it a good enough idea to oppose my natural tendencies. So here I am blogging world, my first attempt to document my gloriuosly plain life.

On second note: Ok I didn't even know my husband had posted an official blog. I thought it was some page he wrote and posted in one of his other quasi-lurky ways. That indicated how slow I am. Now had I realized I never would've allowed him to post the hideous pictures of me in the hospital post child delivery...fat, swollen, eewww. Sorry folks!! I'll remove it as soon as I figure out how to do that.