Bragg Family South

Just so y'all didn't have to look at a forlorn Kenny until I got around to posting the post-Christmas pictures, here's a few we took of the events leading up to the holidays.  In the picture above, we had Kenny's birthday party the first Friday in December.  You can see that this was after he had broke his ankle--note the crutch by him.  In addition, now that it was officially December, I relented on the holiday activities, so that included cookie decorating.  Below, Stephen gives decorating his all: Beth also concentrated hard: Kenny and our neighbor friend Jessica also made a number of colorful cookies: Last week, Kenny's fourth grade class went to the Arkansas state capitol to learn how the government works.  Here is the capitol building itself: Hope and Stephen accompanied our still hobbling boy on this trip to help Kenny get around and to help supervise a bunch of excitable 10-year-olds.  Below is a sculpture dedicated to the...

So how does Kenny go about celebrating his 10th birthday?  Why, with a bunch of horseplay--and a broken ankle!  Yep, last night after CCD Kenny twisted his ankle pretty good, and limped around the evening.  Apparently, today at recess he had some kid "accidentally" land on this sore foot, making it much worse--the school nurse called Hope and told him he should go to the doctor.  Hope took him in immediately, and x-rays later showed he had chipped his ankle bones...  So for the next two weeks, Kenny will be using these crutches and in this walking boot... Happy Birthday!!!