I forgot to post some other recent cookies and some fairly recent pictures of the kids.....
Some tropical-themed cookies for an engagement party:
Pink and teal sparkly guitars and mini music notes for a 7-year-old girl's Taylor Swift birthday party:
Little yellow smiley faces (thanks for the idea, Ma) for Morgan's friends who brought her gifts after she broke her elbow:
In kid news, Gerard and Morgan had a sleep-over and big Gerard put up the tent in the backyard and slept back there with Gerard, Maddie, Abby and Morgan. Here they are warming up in the morning:
We have a great neighborhood with lots of wonderful friends. Gerard loves his "harem", especially the newest lady in the neighborhood, Emily:
I just finished an order for a nautical-themed party. I think these are some of my favorite cookies yet!
And since I haven't posted any recent pictures of Gerard, here is one of him with his hippie long hair, and one of the kids shucking 2 dozen ears of corn for me. Our freezer is now stocked with fresh corn for the winter!!!
For those of you who may be out of the loop, the big news around here is that Morgan broke her elbow 2 weeks ago. She fell (or according to Gerard, she JUMPED) off the coffee table and landed just right. When she had cried nonstop for nearly half an hour, I decided I needed to take her to the ER.
After several HOURS, multiple doctors, a bunch of x-rays, and some Tylenol, we learned that she broke and dislocated her left radius. Essentially, she broke a piece of the bone off and it moved. By 2:00 AM they had sedated her and tried to move the bone back in place but were unsuccessful. She'd need surgery.
They discharged us from the ER in a terrible thunderstorm, and about 1/8 mile from my house I drove into a road that had flooded out and my car instantly died. The water was up to my car door. I called my lovely neighbor, Chris, who rescued us in his truck. The next morning I pushed my car out of the water and it started, but everything on the floors had been soaked and ruined. As of yesterday the car still smelled swampy, so I took it to get cleaned and detailed. It still smells a little, but that should disappear soon (hopefully!)....
Morgan's surgery was a few days after her accident.
Here is a short video of Morgan after they gave her some happy drugs to make her relaxed, before they took her into the operating room and gave her the IV:
They put her under general anesthesia and were able to put the bone back in place without any incisions, which was the best-case scenario. She recovered nicely, and has a neon pink cast now.
She is really such a trooper -- she hasn't complained about the cast or her arm at all! Even after she got stung by a bee on her cast hand she cried for a while, her finger swelled up, but then she was fine! What a tough girl!
