Sometime I stop and really ask myself, is this really my life? Yes it's hectic and yes, some days bedtime can't come fast enough but this life I've been blessed with is really just AMAZING! Are every one's kids this awesome? To me they aren't but to their parents, are they really just awesome little people? I'm convinced Ricky and I were not this awesome as kids so it leaves me to believe that it's just my kids. Then I stop and keep thinking that Jesus loves the children so I'm sure there is a level of awesomeness in us all but these three just seem to have an extra dash of it.
We had a really good time on our little get away. The resort was beautiful and we did everything we wanted to do. We ate at really nice restaurants we'd never been to and some we don't even have in our area. The Miami Heat basketball team was staying in the same hotel so we saw them throughout our stay. They are so ginormous in person. Ricky went to get the car while we were still getting ready one morning and the elevator stopped and Lebron James got in. Just Ricky and Lebron James in the elevator, you know that always just happens. Anyway, Lebron started up a conversation with Ricky and was very nice. He looks so arrogant on TV but not at all like that in person. The extremely tattooed white guy on the team (I think his name is Chris Anderson) looked scary to me. Anyway, we saw the entire team and they all were very nice. The wives/ girlfriends on the other hand... not so much. It was amazing to see how the women treat their nannies and interact with their children. They may have millions of dollars but I'd take my relationship with my babies over the money any day!
DARS is an amazing organization and we are so very fortunate to be apart of it. They made this trip possible for over 300 families across the great state of Texas. It's a great dose of perspective to be in a setting like we were in with all the families have a child or children with disabilities so severe but the parents have so much joy and love for their children. We were little "celebrities" while at the resort because of course we are a family of triplets. All the staff and guest couldn't get enough of them.
The trip home was hard. There was a wreck on I-10 not even half way home that we were in a long line of traffic, and once we were in Katy trucking along a truck 3 cars ahead of us had a huge blowout doing about 80. Luckily I was going slower and far enough back to slam on the breaks and avoid everything. And then there is 610. If you live in Houston you know how horrible it is. We had just passed 45 near the exit for 59 when the person in front of us slammed on his break to a dead stop. I had to lock up the breaks, barely miss rear ending him and all I see is a huge red truck right on my bumper! Thankfully we didn't get in an accident but I was shaking! Sure enough there was an accident ahead that had the freeway shut down but we were able to take a toll road home and miss all that craziness. That is the worse thing about going on trips because you can't control how other people's driving will affect you.
We didn't make it in the house when there was an accident at the front door. Gracie fell and was crying. I helped her up but she didn't want to put any weight on her foot. We brought her in and iced her ankle/ foot area thinking she may have sprang it. A couple hours later she was trying to walk on it but we told her to just rest it. Fast forward to Sunday morning, I went in around 7am to check on her. She was up but laying quietly in bed while Madi was snoozing away. I quietly motioned for her to get up and come with me. She took one step and was in severe pain. Off to the hospital we went for XRays. Of course, it was a fracture but she broke her leg!!!! THE LEG she had the big surgery on in September! The doctors said it was very common in Toddlers to get these "classic tibia fractures". They splinted her with a soft cast and told me to follow up with her Orthopedic on Monday.
We can't believe it. We've done a little research and apparently all it takes is a little kid stepping wrong or falling wrong and they can get these type of fractures. It's horrible though because the poor girl has been through so much. The ER doc said she wouldn't be able to walk on it for several weeks but it should heal just fine. Their birthday party which is at the swimming pool is in 2 weeks. I have no idea what I'm going to do about that. They are also in swim lesson and she won't be able to do that anymore either. I just can't believe it! One doctor has mentioned she may have brittle bones but we asked another specialist and he didn't think so. She has had 2 breaks in her left arm, 1 in her elbow, and now this in her leg. We think that is an excessive amount of breaks. The ones in the arm they think were from when she was born and with therapy when she first started, the elbow is because her arm bones are not attached to the elbow socket (in both arms- she was just formed that way), and the leg. It's a sickening feeling because there really isn't a great cause to the breaks so no way to really prevent it since there isn't any trauma. I guess it's time to break out the bubble wrap!
We have a big meeting tomorrow about Brody and Gracie and their schooling for this next year. I have training for Vacation Bible School since I'm volunteering again this year on Wednesday night, all three of the kiddos have eye appointments on Thursday, and we have a date night to celebrate 10 years on Saturday! We will fit in a couple visits to the library this week too.
Until next time...
KP
