Cast #3 and mini AMC/RR meet ups!!

Gerri being a ham with Aaron and his dad :)

Lots of RR kiddos :)

Ms Julia meeting Alayna :)

The group!! 9 sn kiddos adopted through Reeces Rainbow!! And a bunch of AMC'ers!!

The boys smashing their toy phones!!

Ms Tammy goo goo over Ms Monroe :)

There were bodies everywhere!!

It was SO fascinating to the kids when the candy bar got caught in the machine :)

Danny and Sophie talking :)

Playing with the DS

Then it was finally our turn!!! Each visit is harder for Gerri :(

 She says it hurts the whole time they are sawing off the casts, but is not specific about where it hurts. I have to hold her pretty tight or she jiggles all around. I kept her busy by talking and singing till it was done.

Amazing!!

Ms Mimi came in to hug Danny :) :)

Danny was treated special by everyone :)

It gets pretty messy during casting!! We ALL end up wearing it!

 Gerri was SO uncomfortable during casting today :( Dr vB is pretty hopeful about her foot bones so we will keep it up! Next week we will get this cast off and have x-rays done to tell us the real story.   I had given her some pain meds before we left, but we had a very long wait today and they had worn off by our turn. So next time I take them WITH me :)

Very pooped out from the whole thing!

Danny finally got to see the infamous cow pillow in the game room! Gerri is very proud of her yellow/red casts!

The volunteer group for dinner had lots of kids that came to play with everyone!!

Danny had SO much fun helping them prepare the mexican taco dinner :)

After dinner we had a puppet show!!

The really nice thing about going every week is that we get to meet friends that I have only ever met online!! Some that I have emailed with for years!! I also get to meet new families.
Danny has had so much fun even if he got a bit bored today waiting around :)
But we had school while we waited, counting, spelling, sounding out letters and words.
We will be back next week, just Gerri and I for a 1 day very long day, fly in early and fly out late!

what!! the plane!! again!!

yes she completely dressed herself!!

Danny's teaching math

Daddy needs help painting!

Look at me go!

Danny is SO excited to be going with us to Philly

Watching a movie!! very engrossing!

Waiting to board!

tracing (OT) is so much fun!!

They both did this for an hour!

Eating our pb and fluff on green bread for dinner!

Then we did ABC's and 123's!!

wow mom! that is a lot!

Playing at the RMH!!

I picked the kids up at school at 3 and we arrived at the RMH in Philly at 8:30!! Wow are we tired!!
Danny was SO excited about being here he was just non-stop! Gerri kept telling everyone that she was here with her brother and she was going to show him around :)

We already met another AMC family here, they are SO nice. They come all the way from Canada!!
Tomorrow we meet a bunch of Reece's Rainbow families at Shriners and we are SO excited!!! Well at least I am :)

Happy St Patrick's Day!!

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Home again!

NO! We are NOT going to sleep :) :) Ok Don't! :)

So happy to be back together :)

Nana made dinner :) and an ice cream jelly roll!!

Look what we found when we got home!! how cute!

ReCast #2 is done!

Cute table and chairs in the front room

how silly!?!?

Surprise - it turned into a contest while waiting for the shuttle!

In the waiting room :)

After signing we decided to check out the cafeteria on the 6th floor

good food and very cheap!

How cool is this central area on the 6th floor!!

What an amazing view!!

Getting ready to have it taken off!

Laughing hysterically!!

WOW!!

OMG!! look who came to visit us all the way from the Islands!!!

Ms V was there but did NOT want to touch them! The local tv was there filming :)

Into the cast room so we can get measured by the intern

Then Dr vB comes in to manipulate the feet - she did not like this at all! Ms V is helping.

Dr vB does all new measurements before the new cast goes on

No pictures of the casting process as I had to hold on to Ms Gerri :) But she was happy it was not as messy this time

Who IS this guy?!?!? They both fell asleep in the cab on the way back to the house, so they are a bit dazed

This train is SO detailed! It is Eagles stadium in the center

Playing ice hockey with some help

playing with modeling clay

Back to playing ice hockey while I print out our boarding passes

Our own red couch photo! How cute is Fu Shon and the girls :) :)

My fully loaded burrito watching BL*es Cl*es this am in the main room next to the kitchen

The dining room and play area right nearby

The loaded kitchen

Laundry room on our floor, our sheets and towels are getting cleaned while we play

I realized that I did not take any pics of Gerri's casts - they are green for St Pats day :)
She did much better this time. Her knees were very stiff after the casts came off so we stretched them till she was comfortable and then it was time for new ones :) Oh, and since he is seeing movement of her stubborn foot bones he wants to keep casting to try to avoid external fixators on her feet. Gerri was not happy to hear it but when I explained it was that casts or surgery she did not hesitate to say casts!!
Dr vB is off 2 Fridays in April so her 2 extra casts turns into a month more of casts :(
We hung around and had lunch and played a bit before deciding not to wait till 3:00 to take the shuttle back to the house. I called a cab and the driver was SO nice!! HE told us stories about Philly the whole way back to the house. The girls both fell asleep and slept the whole way back.
They played all afternoon and with so many different kids. This house is so different than the other one, but the kids are loving it!! While the kids were playing I was checking emails and up the hall came James the Shr*ners shuttle driver! Turns out he was looking for us!! I felt SO bad!! I had no idea they would assume we would ride back to the house if we rode it in the am :( He said he had been looking for us all over the hospital and then decided to drive out to the house to make sure we were all right! Wow! I apologized over and over :( I told him it would not happen again! We are SO well taken care of here.
Dinner was spaghetti and pork loin :) yummy! We met another AMC family at dinner time. The girls played together while we watched some tv. Next week Danny is coming and will be fun to see who else we meet!!
I have a whole new respect for the Shriners and Ronald McDonald House, I never thought we would ever need their services and they have been SO amazing!!!

We fly home today, Danny has his district Pine Derby race today!! Go Danny!!