Break a Leg!

Ever wondered where this phrase came from?  Well, we can now tell you!  It actually comes from the theater, in which you say "Break a leg!" to the actors as they take the stage.  It means the equivalent of saying "Good luck" without actually saying it, because if you say Good luck, it actually means bad luck in the theatrical world.  Hmm, okay.  Anyway, when you say "break a leg" it is referring to the applause that you get after a particular beautiful theatrical delivery - some origins would say "break a leg" to mean "take a bow".  Interesting - never knew that!  Amy is known for saying phrases and the musing as to the origin of the word (sometimes discovering a very EMBARRASSING origin of the phrase, resulting in a vow not to use it again!).  Well, Amy's thoughts as Karis jaunted off for his annual men's ski trip were "don't be reckless, and don't get hurt.  Don't break a leg, but have fun!"

Well, Karis was true to his word and didn't break a leg.  No, instead he badly broke his ankle.  Both bones - spiral fracture in one and hunka bone out of the other one.  Just beautiful.  On the second day of his trip, the snow wasn't that great so the group was skiing on a blue run, going a bazillion miles an hour, when Karis went over to the side of the run to see if there was any better snow.  He managed to hit a rut and one ski flew off but the other one did that not, and it was that ski that broke his left ankle (thankfully it wasn't his right, so he can still eventually drive once the left heals enough from a pain perspective).  He arranged an earlier flight home thankfully and was able to get into Dr. Cole, a top trauma orthopaedic surgeon in Orlando, and had the successful surgery on Thursday.  He's now recovering.  Last week, our post was about our family feeling like Job, well we can assert now that we DEFINITELY feel like Job - but we hope that we can remain faithful like he was and not become entirely depressed.  We have many blessings - such as it being Karis' left foot vs right, that the injury wasn't life-threatening, having Amy's Mom retired (we would be dead in the water without her), having wonderful Jennifer who has been carting the boys around to their various sporting events and keeping them all day etc.

Getting loaded up in the sled to be taken down the mountain

Last weekend, Amy took the boys to a park that we don't normally go to, and on the way we discovered that there was a black bear that had climbed up in a tree and was hanging out, looking at the crowd of onlookers below. So, we had to join the crowd of course! Pretty cool! Kaleb was amazed as he'd "never seen a bear before!" (although let's be clear, he's absolutely seen a bear before from either theme parks or zoos!).

Hanging out on a branch near the trunk of the tree just watching everyone below....

Can't see the bear as well, but we weren't allowed to get any closer.  The boys thought it was great fun (love Kaleb's new SPORT glasses!)

Zachary had some very exciting news this week when he participated in his school's spelling bee. They had a contest first by class, which he won for his kindergarten class! We are proud of you Zachary! He then participated in the spelling bee the next day for the whole school (he was positive that he was going to win against the 8th graders!), but fell on the 2nd round to the word "describe." But, as we emphasized to him, it is all about doing your best, having fun, and learning a new experience. It was pretty neat to see him stand up in front of the whole school and spell!

With all of the other excitement this week, we don't have pictures of little Addi to post - but she's continuing to grow and delight us. She is so precious - loves to suck her hands through her woombie (which makes for a wet woombie!), and we love to feed her as (nursing or bottle) she'll cover her eyes with her hand as if to say "oh me, oh my, life is so tiring!" Our little girly is so precious!  We have breathed a sigh of relief as we've now received our new shipment of Pampers (thank you Amazon prime).  We had used Huggies with the boys (after Kaleb got a terrible rash with Pampers) and as soon as we switched to Huggies with Addison, she immediately broke out in a rash (go figure!!) and started having poop blow-outs, so we had to switch back to Pampers.  Love the wetness indicator, baby powder smell, no blow-outs and no diaper rash!

Phrase of the week: "I want to go and comfort Daddy" (ahh!) - Zachary wanted to head over to Grandma's, where Karis has been convalescing so that he can have a bed all to himself and no children crawling all over it bumping into his leg. Daddy enjoyed his visit with the boys, and in fact was comforted! Kaleb had a funny conversation in which we discussed the fact that we have a baby, and in his mind, the fact that she lives with us is why we named her Addison - and that when she grows up and lives on her own, she'll have a different name. Sally sounded good to Kaleb as her future name, wonder what she'll have to say about this!? :) Amy remembers having similar thoughts as a kid - that there were no adults with the name of Amy, so when she grew up she'd have to change her name to something else....like Trina. Ha ha - Amy's mom must have known a Trina because not sure where that name came from!