Broken Baby Bones

Oh boy, yesterday was a crazy day.  It started off at the YMCA, Carter and Ava started their swim classes together.  The kids were having a ball in the pool and I was trying to entertain Dawson in the pool viewing room.  I had packed cars, books, crayons and paper but he was not having any of that.  My little explorer decided he wanted to climb the closest mountain, which in this case was the bleachers.  I was following right behind him as he was walking back and forth on the bleachers.  He came to the end of one bleacher and I thought for sure he would stop.  Instead he decided to jump the divide and make it across a two foot gap between the two sets of bleachers.  Are you surprised to hear that this doesn't end well?  Anyways he ended up on the floor.  I scooped him up and realized after a couple of minutes of crying that he wasn't moving his one arm.  I wanted to grab the two older kids out of the pool but they were swimming, with life vests to the other end of the pool.  So as soon as they came back we left the YMCA.  AHHH!  What do I do?  We ended up at Akron Children's Hospital.  Luckily Mike was able to finish up a meeting and he met me in the ER.

He started off as sad baby.  I'm pretty sure he threw one of the biggest fits ever for the radiologist when they took the X-rays.  It was pretty crazy, I'm surprised they were able to get any X-rays at all!

Then he took a little nap on me, woke up and realized his arm felt great!  He was running around the room using his bad arm to hold angel baby, play with all the levers on the bed and cause general mayhem.  Mike and I were both pretty sure that he was fine, and as soon as they got the X-rays back we would go home with a happy healthy baby.

But instead they told us he broke his elbow in two places!

Mike took the older two kids home while I stayed with our little guy.

He also didn't like getting the cast on, but suckers make everything better!

So this is my baby with his little broken bones.  He is doing better today, although he had a couple of tough moments.  It seemed to be right around the time when he was due for another dose of tylenol.  Now it's just up to me to stop our little evil Knievel from exploring.  Just today I had to stop him from climbing on to the back of the couch, climbing onto Ava's bike and climbing onto our patio furniture.  Oh my little Dockie doodle, I'm so sorry this happened to you.  But we all survived our first broken bone.  I guess this was bound to happen sooner or later.