The first setback happened after a friend's wedding back in July, I noticed my right outer ankle was hurting. I tried to run on it and it became very swollen. After two and a half weeks of non-stop swelling and pain, I went in to a foot doctor to have it checked out. X-rays were normal and the ultrasound was normal too. He chalked it up as peroneal tendinitis pain and ordered me to wear an aircast for several weeks followed by several weeks of PT. The aircast came off yesterday, but man, I just want to run! Hopefully in a few weeks I'll be running out in the cool fall weather.
Sorry for the gross foot picture, but the swelling was pretty noticeable.
I'm not the only one injured right now. Poor Bailey hurt her back left paw sometime a week ago. She won't walk on the leg at all and just hops around. A trip to the vet on Saturday proved that she tore her ACL, maybe all the way, and will likely require surgery. For now she's on pain meds to help with the pain and swelling. Poor thing. Scott left me a friendly reminder this week one morning to give her pills.
On a positive note, we've done some fun things around the house. From homemade playdoh and cardboard boxes to color on to home grown cantaloupe and a surprise package from the new dentist, the boys have enjoyed just being home since we were gone for most of the month.
The solar eclipse was pretty exciting on the 21st! The library had given us glasses way back at the beginning of the summer. I didn't realize how lucky we were to get those so easily after seeing the struggles people had finding them. A few neighbors stood outside with us for about an hour as we took peaks at the eclipse! Sean was really in to it. Evan was more in to the neighbor's outdoor cat roaming around. So, we shared his glasses with other neighbors who didn't have any. What a cool experience for the boys!
Other exciting news was that Evan learned how to ride a bike without training wheels this past weekend! It kind of came out of nowhere. He asked to have his training wheels off (we tried this at the beginning of the summer and he was nowhere near ready) and within two minutes he was off and down the street doing turns and all! To say we were shocked would be putting it lightly.
We took a family trip to the Howell Nature Center last week as our last big outing before summer ends. It was somewhere new for us so everyone was pretty pumped. It was about a 40 minute drive, but it was pretty cool. There was a trail to walk around and see permanently injured animals that they are taking care of, a bird section, a really cool play area with a little stream, a giant tree house, and a spider web to climb, and a hands on section inside to play with.
Scott and I are both back to work this week and the boys have been spending time with Grandpa, Nana, and Tutor Time so far. They were excited to find out their teachers yesterday and we had open house tonight. I can't believe they'll both be at the same school tomorrow. So exciting to see little Ev off to school! He'll have the same teacher Sean had for Young 5's, Mrs. Korstjens. Sean will have Mrs. Bence for first grade this year. First grade!!!
Evan's birthday is this weekend and we'll be trying to enjoy our long weekend before the school year really starts for all of us. It's been another great summer! The boys have grown so much and we're pretty proud of all we were able to see and do this summer. Welcome fall...
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