Holding Happenings

 We have been to the zoo at LEAST twice a week all summer. While I am certainly sick of it, these cuties are not! Thank goodness we have a zoo pass, too, because we usually only go for about an hour. This way, we can see the whole zoo in about three trips. Except for the giraffes - we see the giraffes EVERY trip because they are Lulu's favorite!

 and pictures . . . we still take a lot of pictures

This was fun: 
Sunday evening, around 5, I was getting dinner ready and the girls were playing in the family room. Somehow Emma managed to dislocate Lexi's elbow. I guess Lexi was trying to get up and Emma held her arm and twisted it in the process which caused the bone in Lexi's arm to come out of joint. Lexi SCREAMED! 

When she screams, she looks just like this: 

Lexi will sometimes tell me that Emma pulled her hair so hard, she made "her monkey face"

So I didn't realize (obviously) that she had done any real damage and I thought that she was just being super sensitive about the whole thing and maybe told her to walk it off or something. After 30 minutes she was still crying and whimpering and wouldn't let anyone touch her arm or even move it at all. A good friend's mom is a nurse and we asked her to look at it and she suggested taking her in. I still wasn't convinced anything was wrong with her and I am ashamed to say I sort of waffled on whether or not to take her in the the ER. 

Even though I was still pretty sure she was just being overly dramatic, I took her up to the ER for her first ever Emergency room visit. The staff was pretty amazed that she had made it to 5 years old without having an ER visit. I think I rolled my eyes because I was still convinced they were going to tell me she was fine and send us on our way with one of those super expensive ER popsicles.

 So in the end, it turns out momma was wrong - they quickly popped her bone back in place (amidst incredible screaming and more than a few tears from Lexi . . . maybe a couple from me, too). 
Within minutes she was back to normal - dancing around her little ER room, climbing on the bed . . . basically trying to get in all the playtime she had missed out on for the last few hours! 

 
I couldn't sleep most of the night after this event because I felt so terrible about not wanting to take her in - lesson learned, for sure!




Emma couldn't be left out from the injury roster: she smacked her head on the pews at church Saturday night and has a few little cuts on her nose to prove it.  She also screams like a little monkey in case you were wondering.

This amazingness happened yesterday:

The first 8 seconds are nothing but Emma standing on a foot stool (why?) listening to the music at the end of Tangled (Best. Movie. Ever!). But then around the 9 second mark magic happens. 
Emma has moves AND grooves. 

and yes, I did move the footstool away from the edge of the stairs as soon as I was done filming. The ER doesn't offer a punch card program, you know.