The Life of the Rorabeck's

Monday, January 12, 2009

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Today Hadley got her cast off! Andy took a video of her getting it removed. Its not the prettiest video, but this is what she has to go through every time they remove her cast. I think I'm thankful I don't have to see what she has to go through to get it put on.

This wk while Hadley is cast free, we plan on spoiling her a little extra and getting lots of quality family time in! I will try to keep a journal day to day of our fun activities we do. So if you want check back and see how Hadley enjoys being free!

Hadley's 5th cast will be applied next Tuesday in Chicago at 6AM.

The video is a bit long, but to see the ending is worth it! :)

The process of cast removal consists of:

1. Sawing through the outer layer
2. Using a special scissor to seperate the outer layer of the cast in order to cut the indside
3. Cutting the inside of the cast

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Mcdonalds

After getting Hadley's cast off, we treated her to some Mcdonalds!

Kids say the cutest things

Just wanted to share something cute Hadley said:

Every morning, I Get the girls there cereal and let them watch a movie while watching it. But before we do that, we pray. Today I let Hadley say the prayer and of course she just repeats after me. (just a side note-- Hadley is learning her body parts; she knows eyes, mouth, nose, and just learned ear)
The prayer went like this... (it was new years day)

Me: Dear God
Hadley: Gob

Me: Thank you
Hadley: Thank you

Me: for food
Hadley: Food

Me: and for new
Hadley: New

Me: Year
Hadley: Ear (pointing to her ear)

I couldn't help but to crack up. It was too cute.

Thursday, January 1, 2009

Christmas Eve

On Christmas Eve we laid around and had a lazy family day. It was really nice to lay around together and spend time as a family. Then we went over by my parents for dinner. They always have lobster, crab, and shrimp Christmas Eve. Andy enjoyed that. I wasn't too into all that weird legged stuff!
Then after dinner, we went to our church for a candlelight service. It was awesome to sing songs about our savior and the meaning of his birth. We usually spend Christmas Eve with Andy's dad's side of the fam, but this year we decided to stay home and spend it going to church and getting to bed early... last year our Christmas morning birthday celebration for Jesus wasnt all it was meant to be because we were all so tired from getting home late the night before... We missed seeing the family and our grandparents, but it was also nice to go to candlelight service for a change and get to bed early.

Grandma opening the homemade wreath from the girls

Hadley was always afraid to open her presents and needed
a little assistance...

opening a couple gifts from our friends from MN

Christmas Day

Christmas with the Rorabeck side

The day after Christmas we headed to Andy's parents house to celebrate Christmas with them. It was crazy, but a lot of fun. We played a lot of games, ate a lot of good food, and caught up on each others' lives! Our plan was to stay over one night, but because of foggy weather, we ended up staying two nights. It was good to spend time with the fam and also good that Andy could spend time with his brothers. Tim(one of his younger brothers) will be leaving with the national guard the 9th of January so it was good that we got to stay two nights so Andy could spend some time with him. And he did... he ended up staying up till the early hours of the morning playing video games and watching movies with him and his other brothers! :) It took a little while for us all to catch up on missing sleep, but it was all worth it!

Opening presents