Morgan's Short Fifth Metacarpal...

Morgan saw her Pediatrician today. He sent her to have x-rays of both hands. We thought it wold be several days before we heard anything but received a phone call from our nurse when we were still on our way home. That's pretty prompt service! Anyway, Morgan has a congenital malformation of her fifth metacarpal bone in her hand. There is nothing to be done for it as she has full range of motion and it doesn't cause her any pain. Below is a photo I found of an x-ray (not Morgans hands) of someone with more than one of their metacarpal bones shortened. Morgan's only malformation is the fifth metacarpal bone (the bone below the bottom knuckle on her pinky finger) on her right hand.

Left normal x-ray of a childs hand formed normally. Below, an x-ray of a childs hand with shortened 3rd, 4th, and 5th metacarpals.

Growth Plate Issue??

We are a little concerned because we just discovered something not quite right in Morgan's hand.

Here are some quick photos of Morgans shortened finger and lack of knuckle where one should be. (There is a knuckle but it doesn't seem to be working along with the other knuckles in the same hand.

We started wondering if she had some kind of growth plate injury long ago (that we were unaware of) and are just now noticing something is up. Maybe it's just dislocated. We found nothing googling and will be calling the doctor on Monday.

Trip to Mississippi Continued...

It was fun seeing all the kids playing together.

Jacob in the middle of a video game with Jameson.









Another Park..

We often find Weston getting a little time to himself.

He is usually the one who discovers things that the rest of us miss. This poor insect was donated to science. A mom at the park asked Weston if she could take it home for her child's insect collection/science project.

Jacob and Kaylyn

C'mon Kay, you can win!



I love that our children are usually entertained easily!

This has to be one of Jameson's favorite shirts. We like to BELIEVE that he thinks it's funny and even at 14 does not quite take himself THIS seriously! :D

Haven made some muffins and then fell asleep .
leaning against her couch! I think we wore her out! Uncle Paul took weston our for one more round of paintball too. We had such a great time

A Trip to Mississippi

We decided to ambush my sister

and her family during spring break!

Saturday w

as a little cloudy but Uncle Paul did some paint

ball with the boys and a couple of the girls.

Then he took 8 of them fishing in their pond.

It was very cold on Sunday.

We were out of the car for maybe 5 minutes and Kaylyn was shivering! You can't see her chattering teeth here but they were!

Monday things were warming nicely. So much so we took the kids out to a park to run off some energy. Or, as seen here, cage them up!

Oh no! They are escaping!