Sarah had to have a small surgery on her wrist to have a cyst removed in early August. She did fine in the surgery. Later that afternoon Phoebe, Silas, and Sarah left together to spend a few days in Manhattan with Owen and her. They got to do lots of fun things together there.
One morning I went outside and discovered three Turkeys on top of our old playset.
On Silas's birthday he wanted to go to Rock River Rapids, eat Olive Garden for dinner, play basketball or wiffleball outside, and eat a birthday cake from Sam's. We did most of the things that he wanted to do until he got hurt after dinner outside playing basketball.
The next morning, I took him to urgent care for x-rays and to find out what was wrong from the injury the night before. Then the very next day we had an appointment with the orthopedic doctor for more x-rays and a diagnosis and treatment plan. Silas had two broken bones in the top of his foot along with a severely sprained upper ankle, which had caused two bones to pull apart farther than they were supposed to be. He will wear a cast for six weeks, then go back in for more x-rays to see if it had healed properly. If it has not, then he will have to have surgery to fix the gap between the bones. If it has healed properly, he will go into a walking boot for the next 2-4 weeks and start physical therapy.
Some of the boys on Eric and Silas's baseball team were able to attend a Windsurge baseball game together. They all got to sit together and go onto the field before the game for the National Anthem with the Windsurge players.
Silas recieved a special box in the mail after his injury on his birthday. It was a box of Isopods from our friends Lily and Hunter to help him "cheer up".
Silas and Phoebe had great first days of school. Silas is an eighth grader this year and Phoebe is a junior.
I discovered some giant green gross worms on my tomato plant one day. They had already demolished a lot of the leaves and several of the tomatoes. I quickly got a pair of pliers and plucked those disgusting things off my plant. I flung them out into the yard hoping that a hungry bird would come eat them quickly.
Sarah got her stitches out of her wrist on August 20th.
We had a beautiful rainbow out our front door one morning.
As the swelling decreased in Silas's leg and ankle area his case got lose. We went in to have it recasted. When the cast came off, I was surprised to still see some swelling in the ankle area and bruising.
We added six new chicks to our flock in late August. Hopefully we will have more eggs again in the spring. We have lost a few chickens over the last year. We have a couple getting older and a couple who are molting which has slowed our flock's egg production greatly the past month or so. With the addition of these six we should have more eggs coming next March. We named them Blue, Jewels, Ruth, Cocoa, Edna, and Roo. All six are supposed to be pullets but we will see as they get bigger. I have a feeling we may have one rooster in the bunch.... We also are unsure as to their types/breeds. The worker at Atwood's had no clue as to their breeds so as they age, we will look at pictures to identify them as closely as we can.
Sarah and Owen's first day of school at K-State was August 24th. We hope that they will both have a successful year and lots of fun attending games and on campus events together.
