He Shoots............He scores!

Today is Alex's last day of hockey camp. He did a camp in Rochester that is run by Doug Zmolek. Alex thought it was pretty cool to have an ex NHL player be his coach. Alex and 4 of his friends from Dodge County went together to the camp. I got to go watch the game yesterday (Thursday). It is amazing how much these kids have learned and how they have accelled. In the game on Tuesday, Alex got a goal!!! Unfortunately I had to miss it, but luckily Gpa Terry was there to see it, so that was exciting.

Finally a Tree House!

This past Sunday, Shawn's family came over to help out with working on Alex's tree house. This was a project that was started by Shawn and Alex before Shawn had his accident. There hasn't been much progress on it since then. We appreciate everyone pitching in to help out. It means a lot to us! Now Alex can get away from his pesky sister once in a while :) Here are some pictures of the work in progress.

Pictures

Here are a couple of pictures from Shawn's accident. After looking at these, it is very evident that someone was looking over him that day. You can see the picture of the hill shows all of the sheet metal that started out on the trailer. They say it was all thrown about 200 feet and spread out like a deck of cards.

Another Trip to the Dr after hours

Here we go again......last night while we were making supper, Alex told us that his head hurt. After looking at it, he had a wood tick stuck in his hair/scalp. We have been out to Nancy and Tim's land the night before, so we figure he must have brought a visitor home with him from there! Shawn tried to pull it out, but it wasn't budging. So, we left supper on the counter and took him to the Dr. We left home about 6:00 and Alex still managed to make his 7:15 baseball game in the middle of the 1st inning.

Update on Shawn

Well, Shawn had another appt with the Dr today. The plan right now is a "wait and see" plan. We are really hoping to not have to do surgery on his shoulder. The X-rays today looked promising as the bones don't look any worse than a couple of weeks ago. The Dr wants to see Shawn back in 3 weeks to see if there is any progress. If at that time, there doesn't seem to be any, then we would talk about doing surgery. In the meantime, Shawn has been given the "go ahead" to go back to work on light duty starting Monday.

Cub Scouts

Alex had his Space Derby races for Cub Scouts. The boys sand down and paint the space ships. Then they put rubber bands inside the space ship to help make it go. At the race, the boys wind up the rubber bands several times and put the space ship on a piece of string and let it go. Alex took 2nd place in his den!!!

Stitches says Bye-Bye

Shawn was able to get his stitches taken out of his head on Friday afternoon. Jordyn was a little sad to see them go. Everytime she looked at Shawn in the hospital, she had to tell him that he had a "spider" on his head. She thought the stitches looked like spider legs. So, we named them "stitches the spider". On Friday morning before she went to daycare, Jordyn had to say "bye" to Stitches!

On Thursday Shawn goes to get x-rays of his shoulder and see the Ortho Dr's. Hopefully they will be able to tell us what kind of time table we have to look forward to.