Walking on walking on broken LLEEGGGSSS

I got back from AZ on a Tuesday afternoon as soon as we got home I decided that I no longer had any reason to put off potty training and so we hopped in the car and headed to Toys R Us to let Max pick out a bribe toy. Wednesday the water was shut off so I figured I had one more day. That night there was a ward party for our church. We brought rolls (even though I was suppose to bring buns, I got that mixed up but hey!) and then got in line for the food. My in laws were at the food table and heard Max crying so they went and picked him up and realized that his injury was more than a grandma and grandpa could fix and he needed his mommy. I held him but nothing I did helped calm him down. So I cut in line to get him some lemonade thinking maybe he needed some sugar. He hadn't taken a nap that day so I was sure that he was just tired and needed food in his belly. Well, he wouldn't drink, he wouldn't eat. He told me that he wanted a new leg. I realized that this was something that even a mommy couldn't fix so we packed up the crew and headed to the ER. It was getting close to the twins bedtime so after I nursed the babies we called the grandparents and had them pick up the other three from us at the hospital. Max had fallen asleep on the way there but even in his sleep he winced. When we woke him up to go in the ER he started crying again. There was nothing we could do to get him to calm down until... we let him play Angry Birds on Josh's ipod! That game is magical! It totally took his mind off of the pain. Up until this point we didn't really know what had happened. There were volleyball nets set up out on the lawn at the church. All we could get out of him is that he had pulled the pole down. There was a purple mark on his knee and we thought that he had hurt his knee. They x-rayed his knee and found nothing wrong. So they said he could go as long as he would put pressure on his leg. He started freaking out and refused. But thanks to Angry Birds he had calmed down enough to show us that it hurt on his leg down by his ankle. So another round of x-rays and we found the breaks.

(Here is Josh giving him a little tutorial on Angry Birds)

It was found that he had a buckle fracture on his tibia and fibula. They splinted it at the hospital and referred us to Dr. Rice for the next day.

He got a great blue cast and I was worried because they said that it wasn't water proof and he couldn't walk on it! There went the rest of the summer and our potty training plans!

But never fear this little guy hasn't been held down for long. He has found was to adapt and to get around. We have since found out that there were some eye witnesses to what had happened. They said that there were several kids pulling on the net and it came down on Max's leg. Oh childhood is so dangerous!

It wasn't until yesterday (2 weeks later) that I realized that he thought that once your leg was broken, it was forever and that he would never walk again. Oh it broke my heart that I didn't think to explain it to him that this was just for a little while! But I think he is starting to realized that he will be able to run and play with his friends again!