1st Broken Bone

Here's what's been pre-occupying my time lately...

(Trying to give a good smile)

Tate broke his Femur Bone on Feb. 9th... It's been 5 weeks now and he gets it off on Monday! I know Tygh and I are excited, and Bailey to. She's been missing playing all the time with her brother. We keep telling Tate he gets his cast off in a few days and he keeps saying "I go Utah..cast off!" So I'm pretty sure he is excited to. He's so cute. He's been such a good boy through all this. The first couple weeks were tough, but my mom came out and stayed for a few weeks which was a huge lifesaver. He wanted to be carried everywhere and got pretty demanding. I think we all got some good arm and leg muscle from going up and down the stairs. He'd want to go watch a movie in the basement then 5 minutes later want to be upstairs. He's so much better now though and can roll all over, army crawl, pull himself up and stand and walk along the furniture. He thinks he's pretty cool. He calls his cast his Buzz Lightyear cast! lol.

Poor kid was so tired! It happened about 6:30pm.. didn't get any pain meds until like 9:30, finally got x-rays around 10:30 and then told us they didn't deal with kids there so they had to send us by ambulance to Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City. Finally got in the Ambulance around 12:00, and arrived down there about 3:00 am. Such a long night. When we got to Primary's they gave Tate more pain meds to help with the muscle spasms which was the worst thing for him, and that helped him get some good rest finally. They finally casted it around 11:00 am and after that I think he felt better because it was finally immobilized.


Here he is a few minutes after waking up from the anesthesia and getting it casted. Grandma was already there and had a Buzz Lightyear shirt and books ready for him!

(Here's a little of what Tate has been up to for the past 5 1/2 weeks)

More to come on the story of how it happened and life with a little one and one in a huge body cast!