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Baseball and The AFO Saga

 For Aaron's birthday, we went to a DBU baseball game. They played ACU. Sorry to all you ACU alumni and lovers, but ACU stinks at baseball and DBU is really awesome this year so we got to see DBU run through a hitting practice. We also got to eat hot dogs, chase kids and spend a beautiful evening outside. It was fun. I took the girls home in the 5th inning because they needed to go to bed. Aaron stayed but they called them game on a ten run rule in the 7th. I didn't know that existed in college and I think it's lame but at least Aaron wasn't out there til midnight.
Maddy stalking some ducks up by Aaron's office before the game.

March was the month of trips to Scottish Rite. The doc wanted Maddy to go back in her AFO because she was losing range. The first one they made was awful. AWFUL!! It didn't correct her foot at all and she had to have a size 12 shoe on one foot and a size 9 1/2 on the other. Not OK. Therapists agreed with me that the brace was horrible and a safety hazard. So back to SR we went and bullied them into making a new AFO. Not really but it did take some convincing. They did a great job remaking the new one and we were able to get a pair if 10 W. It was the only pair of 10 W in the store so thank goodness they were princess, light up, pink, and I had a coupon. What is that saying? Something about thank God for small favors?







In the spinner swing
After the spinner swing

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Anonymous said…
Love the after spinner pic. So glad they were able to make an AFO that works for you guys. Am I the only one that thinks baseball should be 5 innings? 9 is WAAAAAAYYY too long!
brittany
April 21, 2015 at 11:18 AM
bee said…
Maddy is doing pretty good on that climbing wall. As always LOVE all the pics.
April 22, 2015 at 8:05 PM
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