Halloween 2008

Halloween this year was a little difficult with a stubborn 11 year old who is having trouble accepting her broken ankle status!!!

Aside from this obstacle we had fun trick or treating. Zack of course @ 13 could not be bothered to be seen with anyone he is related to so he went off with his friends and got into as much trouble as they could! I know this because he came home with very little candy & we all know how much Zack LOVES candy so something better must have been an option....just not sure what it was and I probably don't really want to know?

The kids were most excited this year because Kirk was out of town; apparently a Michigan State football game was more appealing than Halloween; which according to the kids meant they could trick or treat as long as they wanted to!!! They say Daddy always tells them they have enough candy before they think they do.

Connor was Freddie Kruger ...


Riley was a scary Dinosaur...

Hayley was a dead Bride (whatever that is)

Hayley insisted she could walk all over the neighborhood but I brought the wagon "just in case", low & behold mom knows what she is talking about, can you believe that???

We needed the wagon 5 houses down the street!!

Here is our Trick or Treating Group (minus a few friends)

Connor, Brianna, Taylor, Emily & Hayley

Hayley's friends took turns going to the doors saying "can I have a piece of candy for my friend who broke her ankle"

This story change a lot over the course of the evening... sometimes it was a broken foot, ankle, leg... one time Connor's friend Brett, who was with us even said "our friend is handicapped can she have candy!" Hayley was mortified and yelling "I'm not handicap!"

NO CHEERLEADING COMPETITION!!!

Guess who this foot belongs to?

Not hard to figure out since I only have 1 child who would choose a pink cast!!

Wednesday 10/29 Hayley woke up and complained that her ankle was bothering her... I asked her what happened and she said "oh I twisted it in chorus last week" Yes she said LAST WEEK... Hello, maybe we could have mentioned this um LAST WEEK!

Figuring she just sprained it we wrapped it up in an ace bandage and sent her off to school.
I personally was upset because since she had chorus Hayley had been to cheerleading practice 4 times, cheered at 1 game and Gymnastics class. Who can help but wonder how she could have done this and never complained not 1 time about any pain. Selfishly I was thinking about her upcoming cheer competitions and I though if it was sprained and she stayed off it for the last week then maybe she could have still participated...

Thursday she woke up in even more pain that the day before. I got her into the doctor @ 9:30 am. Dr. looked at her and Hayley didn't say much hurt and Dr. says "I think it's just a sprain, I don't see any need for an Xray" Then Hayley went to stand up and got a sharp pain and Dr. said "ok maybe an Xray just to be on the safe side". Off to the lab. The Xray Dr. showed us her xray and said, " It's not a clear break but something is not right" OK so what the heck does that mean??? He is a foreign man and hard to understand after some silence he says "we need to xray her good foot". Ok time for more xrays oh yeah and more waiting.

The "good" foot Xray comes back and all the Dr. will say now is "it's just not right, I don't really want to say, you need to go to an Orthopedic". REALLY? now I feel like I am talking to one of the boys when I caught them doing something they shouldn't be. What kind of Dr. says things like that?

We'll back to our Primary Care Dr. so we can get a referral for the Orthopedic. Of course, Hayley is miserable and keeps saying "I should have just stayed in school, I missed lunch, I missed the raffle, this is boring" because obviously I am having the friggen time of my life!!! Did I mention it is now 12:52 pm?

Our Primary Dr. is busy calling anyone they can to try and get her seen today, at this time there is talk of going to the emergency room @ Children's... which I am really hoping for since that won't require any waiting time (Ok total sarcasm there). Finally, the great nurse gets a Dr. in Amherst to see her but in order for us to get there for the time the have available we need to leave immediately.

We get to the Ortho and even though we needed to rush there, we sat in the waiting room for another 70 minutes! Yes more than an hour past our appt. time!!! The appt time I went "a little" over the speed limit to get to! Why exactly do Doctors make appointment times? The funny thing about Doctors is that if you are 15 minutes late for your appointment they reserve the right to reschedule, but they can be as late as they want and they don't even give a discount :(

Finally it's Hayley's turn. She is barely up on the exam table and they announce, "oh this is getting casted, she broke the growth plate!" It was such an obvious declaration!

All of the annoyance & boredom of the day is instantly gone of Hayley's face and now horror has set in. After picking out her cast color she looks at me and says, "I can't compete?" Yeah, Um NO Duh! (only thought that I didn't say it). Cheerleading competition is this Sunday & next Sunday.... she is crushed!!

Less than 1/2 hour later we get to go home... and it's only 3:30!!

How does an 11 year old girl walk around with a broken foot for a week and not complain? Obviously she takes after her mother and has an amazing high tolerance for pain :)

She has come to terms with it all and after less than 24 hours she is becoming an expert crutch worker, although, she keeps stepping on it when she thinks I'm not looking. Apparently the broken finger from April which healed all crooked because she wouldn't stop doing handsprings on it didn't teach her anything! Here's hoping for a normal foot?

Cheerleader Hayley

Hayley has been cheering at Hamburg Little Loop for 5 years now!!! She has grown into quite the young lady! Her and her friends are a little goofy....

Brianna is on the left and Hannah is the one with the yellow leotard on the right... they are 2 of Hayley's closest friends ... they do almost everything together!

We were visited at the field by the Dunkin Donuts Donut Man... I think the girls were smitten with him!!! How can you not love a big ol donut?

Connor Maxx the Footballer

This is Connor Maxx's 2nd year of football. He is doing so much better than last year. He doesn't always want to go to practice (it's 4 days a weeks so that gets tiresome) but he really gets into the game. He is a blocker on the line for offense and on defense he is in the back... He is #80... I circled him in the pictures. He is little but he does a good job tackling....must be all that practice he gets with his siblings.
This is his last year of Pee Wee. He has a moving up game on Thursday and then he goes on to Freshman... that's the "big time" they actually keep score and go to the playoffs!!!
Keep up the good work Connor!!!