The Arm

As always this is my busy crazy time of year with work and you add a very busy active 2.5 year old and its that much crazier! This year Jayden decided to spice things up a notch and break his arm!.....

Chris was having a boys weekend with friends at the Nascar races and so Jayden and I went over to our very good friends Mike and Britney's house for dinner and to let the boys play (They have a son Braden who is 1 little more than a year older than Jayden) Anyway so the boys were playing and Britney and I decided to run to the store and get dinner. So we left Mike with the boys (this was the 1st mistake you should never let boys outnumber the adults) So as boys do they were playing rough and jumping on the bed, after they were warned and threatened by Mike for the 10th time not to jump on the bed it happened. Jayden fell off and broke his arm. Mike not being able to drive and hold Jayden called 911 and then called Brittney. Well Brittney trying to to freak me out was saying Kristin we need to go and I kept telling her just a minute I'm checking out. After she said this a few times and me not moving very fast she finally said JAYDEN BROKE HIS ARM. Well that got my attention, I threw my stuff at the poor lady at the register and flew out the door to the car. WE raced home and beat the ambulance there and poor little Jayden has sitting on the sofa holding his arm white as a ghost (more so than normal) he was not crying but saying over and over my arm is broke. At this point the paramedics got there wrapped the arm up so the could not see the bone poking out the side of his arm and we rushed to the ER at Children's Medical. They were an amazing staff who were so good with Jayden and pretty quickly gave him some drugs were he thought everything was funny. We had to wait 6 hours before they could set and cast the arm because he had eaten and when your that little they put you under to set broken bones. Finally about midnight we were leaving the hospital with a temp cast on his arm and an appointment to go in a few days later and get a new cast. (Jayden wanted a blue cast like Thomas the train).

Needless to say that goes on my top 5 worst nights ever! But we survived and its been almost 5 weeks with the cast. It has not slowed Jayden down one little bit. But bath time sure is fun, it because a 3 person job (Jayden in tub, Chris holding the arm with a towel and bag over it while I scrub Jayden as fast as possible. I have gotten vary good at this after about 30 times! It will be Christmas early for all of us this Thurs. when the cast comes off!