Purple!

This week Lainey's casts are purple! She continues to do very well.  The doctor was pleased again this week with how her feet are responding.  

Quick Trip to Washington DC

We took a quick trip to Washington DC over the weekend.  We drove out Friday and spent Saturday seeing as many things as we could. We nearly drove the boys to exhaustion, but we all made it.  Todd and I are both bad about trying to cram in as much as possible.  We told the boys it was like football training - you don't sit down when you're tired during a game - and you don't sit down when you only have a day and half to see things. They accepted the challenge and did remarkably well.  

After a breakfast at IHOP (which was a huge hit), we spent Saturday morning at the Air and Space Museum.  Todd loved it.  D and G loved it for a while and Lainey and I were a tad bored.  When Lainey is older, we're making them go through the First Ladies exhibit with us.  Anyway, then we got back on the metro and headed to the Zoo - walked around for a while there - then walked back to the Metro and went back to the National Mall to see the Washington and Lincoln Memorials.  After that we made a quick stop in the American History Museum and then headed to our hotel for dinner.

Sunday we went to the Museum of Natural History and then headed to a Nationals game.  Unfortunately it started raining and the game was delayed.  We waited around for a while - ate, shopped and ran into the Presidents (instead of hot dogs that race, they have these hilarious looking presidents.  Lainey was scared to death of them. Here are the boys with Lincoln.  We also met Thomas Jefferson and George Washington). But since we were going to drive home that night, we started to worry about how late it was getting and we ended up leaving before the game finally got started.  We will have to go back and try again some other time.

Pink Casts

Lainey went back to the ortho doc today for her 3rd set of casts.  The last set had to make it 2 weeks (since the doctor was on vacation last week) and they were falling apart.  The casts were getting so bad, we even put a little tape on it to hold it together. (They told us to do that if needed).  So they decided she needed the fiberglass this time to make the casts a little stronger.  They asked what color we should get and both boys said PINK.  

When they took the casts off and examined her feet, the doctor said both feet are really looking better.  The right foot definitely looks good (although it was better to begin with) and the left is making improvements, although he still wants the heel area to gain more flexibility.  But we are definitely on the right track.