Our "Adventure" to Buffalo Park

The girls and I have been to Buffalo Park (I've made previous posts about it) but Leevi hadn't had a chance to go yet and over Labor Day weekend the weather was gorgeous (it's been chilly and rainy a lot). The two times that the girls and I tried to go it was rainy, but last Monday the weather couldn't have been nicer. We decided to let Hailey ride her bike (we think its a little over three miles roundtrip) and Kailee went on the babyseat in the front of mine. Hailey did great riding there although she rides her bike like she's taking a stroll through a meadow :)

Feeding the deer
Giving Ariel a shoulder rideThe bison...he actually put on a show for us and flopped down and rolled around in the dirtAfter the animals we headed over to the park (an awesome park just in the middle of the forest!)On the ride home we stopped at this perfect picture taking log...Leevi was supposed to be behind me making the girls look at the camera and smile but instead he was sticking out his tongue!On the ride back...and this is where the "adventure" part of my title begins :(Little did I know that when the girls were playing doctor the night before that we'd be in a similar situation not too many hours later :(
On the ride home Hailey was doing great but being a little pokey and we were trying to hurry because Kailee was falling asleep and I didn't want her to nap at 4pm! We decided to put Hailey on the back of Leevi's bike (he has some sort of luggage rack type thing) I was more worried about her falling off backwards so Leevi rode one handed and held on to her with the other. Well, what we should have been more worried about was the tire. Leevi and I are so sick over what happened and embarrassed at our poor parenting decision. We feel horrible that a lesson was learned at the expense of our daughter. Her pants got caught in the tire and in turn twisted her ankle backwards into the tire spokes...it tore a hole in her pants at her knee and sliced the skin off of her achilles. We were minutes from the house and rushed home to access the situation. We finally got her calmed down and she fell asleep and while she was sleeping we were able to get a good look at it. It didn't really bleed because its more like a friction burn and her ankle was swollen. We went to the doctor and the first xray results came back that she might have a tear in her achilles tendon and a possible fracture in a small bone on the top of her foot. She went back in for a CT scan and those results showed no tear and the fracture was still questionable because of the swelling. They fitted her with a removable leg splint (so we can change her wound bandage daily...it will heal with a gel bandage so a scab won't form and crack open with movement from her ankle). The following day the Ortho doc was able to look at her CT scan and doesn't think there is a fracture and wants to re-scan after the swelling goes down. Almost a week later her ankle seems fine but she complains about the wound. Yesterday was gorgeous and she was out back running around without complaint. She starts Preschool tomorrow so hopefully things will go O.K. She'll be stuck in Crocs for quite sometime (its the only closed toe shoe I can think of that leaves the back of her heel open)

These pictures don't really do it justice...its pretty nasty :(

It created a "star" pattern from the way the skin was twisted off (barf!)

Obviously, her spirits are still high!

She fell asleep yesterday while icing her ankle after playing outside And to end on a happy note...the girls at the park...