Al was off monday and tuesday. we hung out at home in the mornings besides a couple of errrands/grocery store run. monday night we went to matt & jodi's house to have our christmas with them. matt made beer can chicken, we had supper, opened presents, played games, watched the badgers/a movie, and had fun! tuesday was cold and snowed a bit starting about dark.
wednesday morning the kids and i shoveled the driveway and sidewalk and the back patio even though we only got just over an inch. we had fun outside. our road got plowed by the big grader so that was cool to see.
thursday was new years eve. mom came down and we went sledding at a small hill near our house (at north high school) after nap. when we got there, trevor's school best friend Liam and his family was there too! trevor got to try out his new snowboard with a handle and tova loved sledding! she even walked up the hill by herself and carried the sled/tube up too! so nice! we had lots of fun but did get a little chilly. Al came home early from work due to a migraine. mom, the kids and i went over to matt and jodi's house about 5ish for apps and some games. Al came over once his migraine was gone. it was fun and we were home about 9ish.
Al ended up working 5 hours on friday so that he could still get his holiday pay due to leaving with his migraine. mom, the kids and i played games. after nap, we all met matt, jodi and the kids at the north high hill for some sunset sledding. it was so pretty and we had so much fun! as it was just about dark, we all went down the hill together and nana, trevor and tova were on our double tube with tova in the front. matt and jodi and carsyn's sled went in front of them and they crashed. tova was crying and said her leg hurt. she wouldn't put any weight on her knee and was in pain whenever we had to move her leg/knee. it was only a little bit swollen and not bruised so we decided to wait until morning before deciding anything. she was up crying every 3 hours so i gave her meds every 3 hours. it took her from 10-1130p to fall back asleep the first time. she'd fall asleep on me but then i had trouble getting her back into her crib.
saturday morning she was still in pain and wouldn't walk or put any weight on it and was in pain to move it so i took her in to urgent care. the urgent care doctor/nurse practitioner did xrays on her. there were no broken bones or fractures on the xray but doc said there were strange pockets of fluid in her knee which could signify a fracture that just is too new to show up on the xray. she said tova's injury was most likely from a trauma/hit to the knee rather than a twist which would be a sprain. so she probably ran her foot into matt's back and either jammed her knee or hyperextended it. the doctor referred us to orthopedics adn send the xrays to them. but since it was the weekend we had to wait until monday to hear from them. by saturday evening after nap, tova was not in as much pain, didn't cry during nap, and could move her leg/knee but still wouldn't put weight on it or stand on it. she did start kneeling on it and could get around on the floor. mom headed home saturday during nap.
saturday night was much better and sunday tova was good except she couldn't walk. she crawled everywhere and needed more help than normal. sunday was packing up christmas stuff, reorganizing/cleaning putting away toys/presents, and playing some of the kids new games. also watching the last week of regular season football.
