Memorial Day

We got an early start Monday morning and headed to Prince William Forest Park to cook up some breakfast. They have a fantastic new playground there that had a fun camping/woods theme. Unfortunately, right before we sat down to enjoy our pancake feast Amelia was walking along the playground border and fell. She landed in a twisted heap and hurt her arm. Amelia has kind of an "end of the world" reaction for any injury so it was hard to tell how badly she was hurt (turns out it was broken...oops). We pressed forward with our plans for a hike down to the river to cool off. Ben distracted Amelia with questions about fairies.






















The water was so refreshing on a HOT day. It was a great place to cool off without any other people around.



We only had to remove one tick when we got home!

Amelia perked up after she had some Tylenol and had fun swimming in the backyard.






(Elsa LOVES worms.)

The pain returned Monday evening and Amelia's elbow was pretty swollen and she still couldn't straighten it. I took her to Urgent Care Tuesday morning and after taking x-rays they referred us to an orthopedic doctor. They couldn't fit us in until today. Diagnosis: broken elbow. Luckily the fracture wasn't very bad but she still had to get a cast. And of course her dance pictures were today. Good thing it blends right in...





And it's waterproof! Which means she can still have fun at the beach next week. Phew.