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It has been over a month since the last blog. Of course a lot has happened in that time. Andrew broke his middle finger, BADLY jammed his ring finger and jammed the pinky and pointer fingers as well. All trying to steal a ball...which he did and then made the lay up. He only was able to play in 3 games before this unfortunate injury. He has now been out for almost 6 weeks. He has a doctor's appointment on Monday. Hopefully he will be given the go ahead to play ball again. He can make a fist (not tightly). That is one of the requirements. The middle and ring fingers are the ones we are waiting on. The middle finger is doing really well. The ring finger is still swolen around the knuckle, even after all this time. There was a lot of ligament damage. That one is the one that he can't quit get down all the way yet. We think as long as he tapes them together for the first few games back he should be able to start playing next week. That is our opinion and hope...hopefully the doctor agrees. He is a little worried about not being able to straighten the two fingers as well as he would like for a straight shot. I told him to shoot with his left hand for awhile if he wasn't comfortable with the right. He has gotten really good shooting with his left hand. Including 3 pointers.
Katie just had her 8th birthday. She will be getting baptized on February 5th. She is really excited. We will post about her baptism in a couple of weeks.
Connor, Cole and Katie have all been playing basketball and are all doing very well. They are on great teams and they are great contributor's. In fact Connor's team doesn't know what to do on the 5th without him. He is their only point guard. They are all hoping that Katie will be first to get baptized so that they can steal him away to play his game at 10:00 a.m. His coach even volunteered to talk to the people in charge to see if that could happen. ( I don't think he really did?!) They may have someone come and stay in the parking lot to take him over after the baptism. He has really come on strong this year.