Videos of my Squids

First video is of Mikayla taking her second step. I got it on my camera phone so the quality is not that great, but it's what I could grab the quickest. She learned to walk by dancing. :)

This is Victoria at the hardware store. Looks like John's not the only one that gets excited to go. And I must say, we find this hilarious. Our kids LOVE to dance.

Mikayla Broke Her Arm

It's true. Mikayla is not as resilient as Victoria. A few weeks ago we went to California to welcome home John's younger brother from his mission. We flew in Friday evening and they took us all out to Round Table Pizza. Mikayla was cranky because it was actually an hour past her bedtime so when she walked off the bench and started crying I assumed that was why. After all, Victoria falls ALL the time and she's always been fine. Plus, she's a stick. If she falls you would think she would break. So naturally, Mikayla is fine. We all went back to the house and Mikayla went to bed...still crying, but like I said she was tired.
The next morning we all get up and as I'm changing Mikayla for the day I notice that she's not using her left arm. Then it dawns on me...she WAS crying more than the usual cranky cry, everytime we touch her arm she starts crying, and she wouldn't even hold a toy in it. So I took Mikayla to the ER and sure enough the X-rays reveal two fractures in her left arm. Some vacation huh? However, she's adjusting quite well and is recovering in her lovely green cast.One thing that I've noticed about the ER's that I like is that both times I've had to bring in Mikayla to the ER (the first being when I found out she was allergic to penicillin) they have seen her immediately. So if you ever have to go to the ER just hope that you're a baby. As well it should be that babies go first, it was just a broken arm...we could have waited. And in fact I was expecting to, but I guess nobody can deny helping a cutie like her.