Christmas & AFO's & Elbow Splints

OK so I promised I'd do a Christmas post. We had a great Christmas. Spent Christmas Eve with Paul's brother, mother, and nephew. We enjoyed the family & company & togetherness.

Will insert Christmas Pics when I get to a faster internet connection.

Then we did the Christmas morning Santa thing at our house. It was made EXTRA special by the help of one secret santa. The kids enjoyed it sooo much. BUT silly mommy, took pics of all the stuff Santa left behind, but in those pics all the cookies for Santa are still on the plate. LOL! I guess I could have taken the pics while Santa was at our house. :) Then we went on to my moms for a beautiful Mexican fiesta. Complete with tamales, tacos, rice, and beans. YUMMY YUMMY!

Ok now for the recent news. We went to Houston last Thursday. Seems PJ is really enjoying the trips down there now that he is not having surgery. We picked up his new AFO's, which look exactly the same but taller. He also had new wrist splints made because he has been crying & begging for them every night since they said he didn't have to wear them anymore. Then we turned around and drove home. THose are always long days 5 hrs driving there, 45 minutes there, another 5 hrs in the car on the way home. I'd almost like the appointment to be longer just to break the driving up a little more. He was such a big boy. Just watched his movies & sang along to the radio the whole way home. Then we stopped for a cheesburger, ate at Nana's house & headed home. All in all a good trip.

I forgot to mention we also had an appointment at Hanger Orthotics on Jan 21st. Pj had had some very expensive elbow splints made before we did all of these rotational surgeries. They worked very well, but he couldn't wear them anymore. We went in and they made the adjustments for his grown & the change in his rotation. He is no longer with the back of his hands together in front of him. Anyhow they fit great and he wore them every night all night up until a couple days before we left for Houston. Then, the place that use to be a thumb hole, that they just stretched out and now his forearm lays there, is pressing in on the inside of his forearm. We are going to go have them readjusted during Spring break. I have exhausted all my days off just going to Houston & we still have 3 months to go besides this one. I'm sick as a dog, so is PJ, Patric, & Paul but don't have any more days I can take. So.. I'm scheduling all dr's appts for both kids on Presidents day, Spring Break, Cinco de Mayo, etc......