I really enjoyed reading your account and looking at the pictures, great family activities that create memories that never grow old in our mind as our bodies age.
As much as I loved the recovery part of your story and appreciate you ability to tell the story I promise you if you shoot a Barnes Expander you will have to write much shorter stories, the recovery will never be that long and you owe it to your wife to not make her worry that much. You will just need to extend the story leading up to the shot a little more.
Congrats at all, even the little one that can sleep through gunblasts