The Hannah Family

Matt is having elbow surgery on Friday

He has a displaced fracture-dislocation that will require hardware to repair.  Recovery will take at least 3 months, but physical therapy will begin next week.  We are all sad.

Matt has a dislocated elbow

Very gross-looking and obviously painful, it happened tonight at Arrichion where he practices wrestling.  Matthew had driven himself to Raleigh, but it hurt too much to drive so he had to wait for us to get there to take him to the emergency room.  It can't be helped, but he's been getting x-rays way too frequently.

December - hand x-rays twice (urgent care and then at orthopedist) for broken metacarpal

January - hand x-rays to verify healing

March - knee x-rays to rule out pathology with meniscus injury

March - elbow x-rays for dislocation

My foodies

Claire (7):  I kind of want to go to heaven to eat all the candy, but I really want to stay here because I love life!

Dave (4):  You don't want to go there.  All they have in heaven is roast beef and broccoli.

It was warm here, shorts weather, almost 80 degrees

Now it feels like winter again, temperatures won't even get out of the 30s on Monday, and I had to bring the plants back in.  That tease has us all wanting summer here sooner rather than later!

Warm weather

Dave and Claire are having so much fun after school exploring the little wooded area behind our house where the deer roam.  It would be all good except for Dave going to school yesterday with a tick on his ear, so gross.  Mark came home from softball practice with a tick crawling on his leg last night.  I can tell it's going to be a bad year so I'll stock up on the Frontline Plus to do what I can for the pets (while I keep an eye on the people).

Huffing

Apparently some boys on my street have been stealing freon from neighbors AC units and inhaling it to get high.  I'm glad they were discovered before this became tragic, but of course I'm sad it ever happened in the first place.  Click the link here to read and see a preliminary news report.

And a later report.

Book and a Bite

At the beginning of the school year, the parents signed up for a 30-minute slot to bring a snack and read to the 1st grade class.  It was my turn last week and it was so much fun.  I brought them ice cream cups and read four books.  They giggled and listened attentively, leaning forward so they wouldn't miss the pictures.  They all said thank you and one little boy gave me a big hug.  Claire was all proud and happy.  7-year-olds are adorable!

Per Dave

Bees are good, but not wasps.  They will both sting you, but bees help make flowers by moving pollen.  Wasps are bad because they just pick it up and drop it!

Fortuitous

After looking at several e-readers, I'd decided on a Kindle and intended to buy it 6 months from now.  They cost $139 which is a good deal.  Today I found the Wi-Fi Kobo eBook Reader at our local Borders which is closing.  It was on sale for $100 with an additional 40% off.  Yep, my new Kobo cost just $60, already has 100 classic books loaded, and supports ebooks borrowed from the library.  Talk about sweet!

The bad news and the good news (again)

The bad news is my poor laptop is on its last legs with old age and since Katie dropped it twice (that I know of).  That keeps me from posting regularly because this thing takes an eternity to load and get anywhere.  The good news is I'm still trying to keep track of things to tell you anyway, such as Claire lost her 2nd baby tooth - extremely excited when it happened naturally by banging a cup into something as opposed to Mark eagerly plucking it out - and Claire will be beginning her second season of soccer soon and already bought new cleats, a full size extra to accomodate her shin guards and thick high socks.  We're still here, don't give up on us, and meanwhile... Happy St. Patrick's Day!