Winter/Rowan's 7th birthday

It's warming up here as I write this.. writing about the very non winter that we had. We went sledding twice the whole season. 

No clue 

Good times, but only twice. The first time we went on Rowan's 7th birthday. Leading up to his birthday he was more excited than he ever had been. So, we took to the slopes. It was on a Tuesday and we were lucky because Sam happened to have that day off. We pretty much had the hill to ourselves. We bought a bunch of new tubes for the occasion. A unicorn with sunglasses for instance, to prove how serious we were about this, and how great our decision making skills are. We arrived with 5 new sledding tubes, and we left with 2. That is because there was not much snow and the tubes would hit the rocks/dirt and so sure enough they broke on their maiden voyage. We had fun while it lasted. Jonah surprised me this time, because he carried his own sled up the big hill every single time and he would just go on repeat. Never even asked for help.  

So, something noteworthy. Kaj broke his wrist. I don't recall ever writing about this, how it went down, anything- so we had our first broken bone  in our family. Kaj felt like the most unlucky kid that ever was. He even asked me if he just had bad luck, and I had to explain the many many hundreds of people who break bones every day. When I told my parents that we had a broken bone my dad's response was: "let me guess? Jonah." 😂 By a crazy turn of events. It was not Jonah. 

How? How did this happen? The shortened version: he fell. The story Kaj likes to tell: "I fell off a bridge." To which I fill in the rest of the story, "He fell of the bridge at the park down the street." I don't want to people thinking he is just standing on a bridge somewhere. The full story. He was playing a game at the park, he was jumping off the bridge and his shoe got caught and sent him hurling down. He had the cast on for 6 weeks, was very thrilled when he went in the day to have it removed and then they said he needed it on longer. So, after 8 weeks it was officially off. The weird thing is where the cast was...he has significant amount of arm hair, not exaggerating it's man hair on just that arm. 🤨 It was explained that that can happen that when bones are healing it's stimulating so much growth that can also cause arm hair?  I guess. 

Rowan's birthday getting ready for sledding