Poor guy

I remember having a moment with Belle when I was like "well there goes my mother of the year award". I believe she was an infant and I just watched as she fell off the bed. Never a good sound to hear your baby hit the floor. She of course was fine cause kids are resilient like that. It is also not a good sound to hear your child scream out in complete pain because he is getting his arm set back into place. Even worse when they have to try to do it 3x.

Poor Ethan had to go to the ER today because he threw a tantrum at a friends house and I'm not quite sure what happened. Either he threw himself down while I had a hold of his wrist or I might have pulled him towards me. Either way they think he got nursemaid's elbow. However when they set it, it never seemed to fix the problem. Ethan still cried out in pain and didn't want to use his arm. So they think there is a small fracture. Nothing is broken and all looks fine on the xray. So we are off to the orthopedist on Monday. So he was sent home in a soft cast sort of thing and a sling. Yea right, a two year old keep a sling on. Not a chance!

But knowing Ethan, nothing will keep him down for long. He was already climbing on things and not doing things he should with his arm. I always knew he'd end up in the ER, I just didn't think it would be my fault. Oh well, who needs a mother of the year award anyway. =)

Here he is rocking the cast and gown that they gave him to come home in. No idea what he's going to wear for the next couple days. Excuse the peaches in his mouth.





Update: He's just fine. We went to the orthopedist and his xrays looked fine to him and once the bandage came off Ethan had full use of his arm. He was thinking that maybe it was just really sore and had to heal up before he'd use it. The diagnosis of Nursemaid's elbow stood. Whew!!