some excitement for a otherwise normal day...

Well KJ is doing amazing... back on whatever semblance of a schedule she was on, eating, smiling, giggling.. Today was a wonderful day. Justin was off, so we all went to breakfast at our favorite little cafe. The rest of the day we just filled with normal stuff. KJ has pretty much perfected her crawl with the "club" on her left arm and has started to figure out how to pull herself to standing like she used to :)

Anyway - for the excitement... my mom and I came home from a beautiful walk in the park and swings for the baby. Justin was in the bathroom :) We put the baby down to play and my mom started to prep for dinner. KJ kept crawling into the kitchen, but because we keep a sock on her casted arm she kept slipping, going backwards, just not going anywhere. So I'd put her back on the carpet.. and she'd start the whole process over again. Well I put her in the middle of the living room and started to walk away and she (of course) started to come after me and as she lifted up her left arm I saw something pink slip off. My heart dropped for a minute... I thought her arm fell off!! and then I realized her cast fell straight off her arm!! I scooped her up.. called out to my mom and panic'd a little!! Her poor little arm.. it was all skinny and sticky and surgery..y. Her little hand was all puffy, and stitched up and red.. but her fingers looked amazing. She immediately starting crying.. either from pain of finally being able to move her fingers (when they're not supposed to be moving!) or the fact that her mom was freaking out a little bit. I finally starting thinking clearly... grabbed some dressings and covered her little hand up before she could move too much. I knew we needn't to make a splint of some sort, all my mom and I could come up with was some plastic knives!... meanwhile... Justin is still in the bathroom! I of course am like.. Babe, I could really use your help.. the baby's cast fell off... he thought I was kidding, but finally came out to help. He saved our little girl from having a splint made of plastic knives and made one up from cut up cardboard.. sterile dressing..tape.. and oh wait... nursing pads! HA! This household can be quite comical.

Thankfully.. KJ was exhausted - we were already due for a nap.. so I was able to put her down and not have to worry about not lettting her crawl around. We had called CHOP and they told us we had 45 minutes to get there before the cast room closed.. so of course we left right away. She was a champ.. got a pretty new pink cast without alot of complaint.. and we were back home in about an hour.

Whew... she can't just be ordinary huh.. crazy
Oh and by the way - best part of this whole ordeal.. we didn't get one picture. Not of her precious little arm and fingers .. not of her crazy makeshift splint that her dad oh so precisely made for her.. and not of her getting a new cast.. Go figure.