Tickles

Bye Bye Braces

It's been four and a half months. William had his last appointment on Thursday. He has corrected his Achilles tendons more than anticipated and he is done wearing them! He got them off just in time for beach season. Way to go Will!

Poor William

Ugh. I will start on a lighter note. Harrison went back to the doctor Tuesday and his ear infection isn't gone. He was started on a new antibiotic that he hasn't been on before so hopefully this will knock it out. We really don't want to put tubes back in so our fingers are crossed. The news gets worse. Today we went to a pediatric orthopedic surgeon for William. I blogged earlier that he is a tippy toe walker. His achilles tendons are short/tight and that is why he does that. It is not out of habit rather than a need to. So we have tried everything on our end from stretches, exercises and massages. As time progressed, he has only gotten worse. He walks on his tippy toes almost 100% of the time including standing or with shoes on. SOOOO, he is NOT going to have a fun upcoming 18 weeks. He will spend 6 weeks in hard casts that go up to his knees. She told me the worst part is that he won't be able to run. To me, the worst part is going to be trying to clean the kid. After that, he will be in leg braces for 6 weeks 24 hours a day (he gets fitted for those Tuesday morning). Then the following 6 weeks he can take the leg braces off to sleep if they see correction. He has to get fitted for the braces first so they will be ready before the casts come off. So this whole process should start in about 2 weeks. We are hoping that it won't interfere too much with the summer activities. I feel so sorry for him. I don't really see this as the end to his medical problems as he has really bad gastrointestinal problems. I see a lot of complaining in my future :( And I don't blame him. Poor guy!

Monster Jam

Last night we surprised William with an early birthday present. We took the boys to Monster Jam. I didn't realize that picking "best available" seats on Ticket Master meant that we would get front row seats! Grave Digger was parked right in front of us so Harrison could not stop pointing at him. They absolutely loved it. All the dirt, noise, trucks, crashes, etc. They were in heaven. Afterwards we went to Sonic Drive In. There is one in Anaheim where the Monster Jam was. We haven't been to Sonic in over two years-yummy. And you know it is a celebration when there are two toddlers in the back seat eating Jr. Sundaes at 11:38pm! They crashed right after the sundaes. We didn't get home until 1am. We don't really like keeping the boys up that late but hey, it was a celebration! Unfortunately we missed church this morning because we got home so late. Now I have 18 extra cupcakes in my kitchen!!!!

Of-course Grave Digger brought it and won the whole competition. It was awesome.

El Torro Loco. The boys loved the horns.

And Monster Mutt did really well too. He put on quite the show.

Crash!

Will had four layers on! See Grave Digger in the background?