Boy 1 Clavicle

Today we had a follow-up appointment to see how Boy 1 is healing. Everything is going good. We just have to start stretching the arm above his head and this will prevent the need for physical therapy. The doctors office gave me a copy of the x-ray so I can post it on the blog.

1408 Days

That's how long we made it without a broken bone, 1,408 days! The first of what I have a feeling to be many broken bones from Boy 1 and Boy 2 has surfaced. Boy 1 broke his collarbone while wrestling around at day care on Thursday.

When we got home on Thursday night he was favoring his right arm a little bit, but being the caring parents we are just figured it was just sore or even being used as a way to watch the T.V. shows he wanted to watch. Audrey (Day Care Provider) told us he and Ricky were wrestling and he fell landing on his shoulder..........just like the 445,000 other times he has done that. If I would have started this blog earlier you would have seen the many bruises Boy 1 has incurred over the past several years. There is not 1 ounce of gracefulness in his body.

So after about 2 hours asleep in his bed, Boy 1 woke up crying alligator tears from trying to turn over in bed. So it was off to Parkview for x-rays. In the back of my mind I knew the arm was worse than just sore, it just took me until 10pm to accept it. On my way to the hospital I called Carey to Google the symptoms of a broken clavicle. She reported that many of the symptoms were what we had observed all night. If we just Googled this earlier I would not have had to make a trip to the hospital at 10 p.m.

The Dr. in the ER was great. He has two small children so he was able to talk to Max. Even before x-rays the Dr. knew it was broken. Max did great during the x-rays, listened and did everything the tech asked him to. How come he does this for others and not us? So the plan is a sling for a few weeks and he will be good as new in about 4 weeks.

Over the last few days we have learned that broken collarbones are common among kids due to the bone not being fully hard yet. As Dad and I were saying yesterday with all the wrestling around we do with the boys it was just plain luck that it hadn't happened with us.

Oh yeah.............some may ask, he's doing fine. He has adjusted well to the sling, it still hurts sometimes to turn himself over in bed, but he is getting by very well. We kinda like when he is being a good snuggly 3 year old rather than a limit pushing little puke, so this has been nice!

Boy 2.....Our Version of Pig Pen

Just some pictures of the aftermath of Boy 2 eating. If you are unable to recognize the food, we have chocolate pudding cup that we tried to drink like a cup of water and a Lucky Charm marshmallow. How do you get it in your hair?

Slidding at Grammy's

2 weeks ago Carey's mom made some sledding trails and invited everyone up for sledding. It was most important that there was a trail to the left of the sledding trail to walk-up. The snow was about 2 feet deep and was impossible to move around without packed snow. Sharon was a little crazy, she walked with snow shoes over and over creating the trails...........but they worked awesome!Below is Boy 1 doing better than dad. I tried to go down the hill standing up in the tube and made it about 10 feet before I went crashing down! As soon as Boy 1 saw that he had to try it. He did great!! Towards the bottom he veered off into the pucker brush and the great thing about the tube he dropped down and disappeared into the tube protecting himself.Boy 2 had no interest in even sitting on the sled as he got pulled back-up. Just layed down and relaxed as Grammy pulled him up.