New Reality

Since we don't have enough excitement in our lives, Jackson decided that he needed to add some. On January 1, 2011, he fell down our basement stairs. He had just gotten really good at crawling. The big kids left the basement door open after coming up from the playroom and in just a split second he fell down the stairs.

He has a fracture to the right femur......leave it to my kid to break the biggest strongest bone in your body from a fall down carpeted stairs onto a carpeted floor.

He is in a Spica cast. This goes from the toes on his right foot up past his hip and around his torso. Because of this cast, he can't sit up. So, we have had to "rig" everything from car seats to high chairs to allow him to use them. Oh, and since the cast goes completely around his waist....diapering is quite the challenge. Let's just say, buying Depends at the ripe ol' age of 31 has gained me quite a few funny looks. We use a Depend to stick under the cast as best we can and then use a regular diaper on top to hold it in place.

We go back on February 4th with the hopes that we come home with a cast-less child. I am already planning on packing a cute outfit (since we only have 4 that he can wear now....and only 2 PJs with the right foot cut out), soap wipes-that when you add water to them they sud (he has only had sponge baths since the accident and is starting to get a bit ripe), and his snowsuit (we can only swaddle with blankets to go out in the cold). Woe be unto the doctor, if they have to tell me we can't take the cast off!

Hopefully, I will get up a Christmas post complete with cute pictures of the kids.....but that will probably have to wait till the child attached to my hip is cast-less and able to entertain himself.