ANNIE GET YOUR GUN

Last week we received a call from Roger's Memorial Theatre asking Bron to audition for the part of Little Jake in the musical Annie Get Your Gun. Bron had been referred by the director of our school play. He was darling at the auditions and he got the part. We practice almost every day, even on Saturday - three hours a day. (a bit more than I had expected) His part is also a lot bigger than I thought it would be with 15 or so speaking lines, several songs and also a short little solo. The play will have a one month run and he will be performing three times a week. I hope he can hold out. Working with adults has been fun for Bron. They are all so kind and cute with him.
I can't wait to see him perform.

Bronson is growing up. He looks so much older to me and he has really thinned out. He seems all bony now. He was assigned to pull all the weeds by the basketball hoop. He complained and whined and went about as slow as he could, but he managed to get every since weed, even if it did take him two hours. (he really did take two hours and he could have done it in about 15 minutes) We had a really weird episode with Bronson this last month. He was walking home from church through the field and a stick poked him in the side of his foot by his ankle. I don't know how that happened, but he was carried home by a neighbor boy. The stick was coming out the side of his ankle. I pulled it out. He said he couldn't walk and crawled around for the rest of the day. I figured he would stop crawling and jump up and play when we were with the cousins that night, but he didn't. The next morning he was crying in his bed and said he could not walk on his foot. It was swollen and hot where the stick had gone in, but nothing crazy. We took him to the doctor where x-rays and ultrasounds were done. Nothing was broken and there was no piece of a stick found in his ankle. They drew around the redness with a black sharpie and sent us home with Augmentin antibiotics. The next morning the redness had doubled in size. We took him to Primary Children's where they drew a line around the additional swelling. By the time the doctors could take the time with him, the swelling had grown considerably from where it was that morning. Bron was admitted to the hospital for IV antibiotics for 24 hours. We should have seen a marked decrease in the swelling. The swelling did stop, but did not decrease any and he still could not bare any weight on his foot. After about 36 hours we were sent home on two different antibiotic (something really strong that they don't like to give to people). After about another four days he was finally able to walk on his foot.

It is actually still swollen, but the redness and heat are gone. This seemed like such hassle for one stickin' stick.

Bron says he will never play in the field again. I hope he will, but he'd better not have another stick jump up and poke him in the leg again!