This week we've had two doctor visits already. Brent saw the orthopedic on Monday to check on his broken thumb and see how it's healing. He said that Brent might have a slight ligament tear, but he wants to check it again in three months. When he starts playing soccer again, he needs to get a rigid brace for his thumb. Emerson saw the ear, nose and throat doctor on Tuesday to check up on his ear tubes. The doctor says they will last six to eight months and he might have to have another set put in when these fall out if it doesn't buy us enough time for Emerson's own eustation tubes to develop. He got his momma's ears, poor little boy. On the plus side, he is talking more and seems a lot happier that he can hear so much better.
We went to the Western Idaho Fair on Saturday and Emerson absolutely LOVED the petting zoo. He would go up to every cage and literally grab the cage while jumping up and down all as he was screeching with glee. He wanted to hug every animal. We had a lot of fun seeing all the animals and eating food that can't be good for you. We went home for a nap after our fun filled morning and had even more fun that afternoon. We went to our local Walmart and bought a carrier for Emerson that attaches to the back of our bicycles. Then on Sunday we rode from our house to grandma and grandpa's, which took about an hour on the way there because we got a flat. We had yummy enchiladas for dinner then tackled the ride home, which took us 40 minutes. We had a very full weekend that I'm sure we will never forget.
We went camping in McCall over the Independence Day weekend and woke up one morning to see deer in our campsite. Apparently they didn't get the message that nobody is allowed on the grass. We sure did as the rangers came and warned us every evening.
Emerson the fair has to get lathered up with sunscreen whenever we do anything outside and he's such a trooper. He always sits so nicely for us and takes it like a man.
Emerson and Daddy had a most wonderful time building a sand castle, but even the big boys eventually get tired. The trip was quite the event for us. Emerson had a nasty ear infection, then got bitten by some insects, then had baseball size whelts on his thighs. We rushed home Sunday night and by some miracle they were completely gone the next day as if they had never even been there! All of this was also happening as Brent was getting a very awful sinus infection. Emerson has had so many ear infections and is allergic to three different antibiotics so we went to see an ear, nose and throat doctor. He took a 10 second look in both ears with a microscope and said, "he needs tubes" so we took him in on Monday last week and he had surgery to put tubes in his ears. The surgery lasted all of 15 minutes and he got to wake up lying in my arms. He seems so much better with the tubes. He has said many new words just in the time since the surgery and isn't pulling at his ears in pain. We are all much happier. Well that's it for all the big stuff from our side of the world for now. We'll write more later. The following is just a cute picture of Emerson from last weekend.