July 4th weekend, and broken bones :(

For 4th of July weekend, we decided to take a quick trip to Connecticut to visit the Dinosaur State Park!  It is an awesome State Park that has an area with real footprints from what they think was a Dilophosaurus.  We had a wonderful time exploring the park, hiking in the area, swimming at our hotel swimming pool and visiting with Trisha Didi and Romil Bhai, who live near Hartford, Connecticut!  For some reason, I have lost all of the photos from that trip, but on our second day in Connecticut, here is what happened to Keshav:




















Keshav tripped and fell at our hotel, and he broke his right ulna and humerus :(  Poor guy had to be seen at Connecticut Children's Hospital ER that night, after which we drove back to Boston and took him to the Boston Children's Hospital ER in the morning!  After determining that he wouldn't need surgery, they put a cast on him, which he had to wear for 6 weeks.  He was extremely brave, and although he was uncomfortable and in pain for the first week, he learned how to manage and still have a fun summer even with his dominant hand out of use!  Here is a drawing that he made of his fractures:

Keshav amazed me everyday at how proficient he became using his left hand to do everything!  He was writing and painting and drawing so well with his right hand!  The most impressive thing that I saw was how he was putting together complicated Lego sets using just one hand, and on top of that his non-dominant hand!  He is a pretty amazing kid!






















He also loved that so many of his loved ones got to sign his cast!










One of the hardest parts of it was that for the first 4 weeks, he could not get it wet.  But, we managed to still enjoy the summer the best we could!  We had a membership this summer to one of our favorite farms, Davis Farmland, which was always a blast for the kids!































When Daji and Dadi came to visit, we went to Legoland in Boston!


































We also attended a local minor league team's (The Lowell Spinners) baseball game on their superhero night, so the kids got to dress up as superheroes!  It was a lot of fun!































And, of course, we ate a LOT of ice cream this summer!