It is what it is.....

Or so we thought! We were in the waiting room at the Dr's. office for a 9:15 apt. and Jack was walking around while we were waiting and he tripped. No big deal I picked him up because he was crying. They called his name to take us back and he was still crying. The nurse started asking me questions and I couldn't hear her over his screaming. She asked if he normally cried like this NO WAY he was inconsolable so I started crying. He is such a sweet happy boy so it worried me that he was crying so much. Finally the nurse said maybe we should take a look at his leg so I took his pants off and I knew that something was wrong with his left leg when I touched it. The nurse sent us to the hospital to get some X-rays. In the mean time I had to call Bruce, My mother in-law , my friend Julie (who had taken Avery to 3 school but wasn't planning on picking her up), My aunt and then our friend's that we were planning on meeting at B&N at 11:30. AHHHHHH. Going into panic mode I couldn't remember any numbers. We went to the hospital and had 4 different X-ray's taken. We waited for about 45 min and the Dr's. office called and said he was fine and if he wasn't putting all his weight on it by Monday to call back because fractures in toddlers don't always show up right away. We went home and tried to make Jack comfortable and Bruce was headed back to work. The phone rang just as Bruce was about to leave it was the Dr's. office apparently they did not read all of the X-rays that were ordered the first time. When they looked at the X-ray of his leg they saw that his leg had what is called a buccal fracture. Basically it bent snapped but went right back into place it wasn't a clean break through and through. With a broken leg comes a cast. The Dr's. office called shoreline orthopedic and got us in at 3:00 so it was hard to contain Jackson for 3 hours waiting for our apt. then when we got there at 3 it wasn't until 4:15 before they even got us in the room and 4:30 before the cast was put on. Check out the pics below Jackson sleeping after his apt. It was a long day for us all for us all! The challenge Will be in the weeks ahead keeping it dry and having a frustrated child to go from walking back to crawling. the cast is on for 4 weeks then they will take it off and see if he needs to have it on for an additional 2 weeks or not. The good thing with young bones is they heal fast. I guess we will just take it one day at a time.