Broken Arm - What?!

Seriously I was shocked! We were having a very quiet afternoon and then....

Spencer and I had been painting pictures of Dinosaurs and he said he really wanted to watch the Dinosaur movie. It was in the upstairs player, so I don't think he'd seen it in over 2 months. He was super concentrated on watching, but looked a little tired. He probably would have fallen asleep had he not been so intrigued. So he was on the guest bed watching the movie and I was standing next to the bed talking on the phone to my mom and ironing Nick's shirts (it's a once every 2 month occasion, so I was feeling quite accomplished and excited for Nick to get home and see all of his nicely ironed shirts) I was just about finished ironing and I hung up the phone (It was about 4:30 p.m.) Landon woke up in the other room and Spencer went to say hi. When he walked back in he hopped right back up on the bed and laid back to watch the movie. I didn't want to leave him in the room with a hot iron, so I thought I'd finish my last shirt and run get Landon. I turned around and about 20 seconds later I heard him hitting the elliptical machine next to the bed. He hit pretty hard, and landed on his arm. I couldn't see the whole thing from my angle, but I could tell he was hurting. I picked him up and hugged him for a few minutes and then set him on the bed so I could unplug the iron etc. He would not calm down and he was holding his arm super still. The thought came - could he have broken his arm?! - No way (not falling off a bed) After 15 min. I called Nick and asked if it would be obvious if it was broken or... we tried calling Uncle Marc, but no answer, so I called our pediatrician. They thought it might be Nursemaids elbow and told us to bring him to the after hour clinic at 6:30 p.m. By the time Nick got home we could tell it really was not just a bumped elbow and the fact that he wouldn't use it to help get a fruit roll-up into his mouth was an obvious indicator.

When we got to the office the Dr. said she didn't think it was Nursemaids elbow and was pretty sure it was broken. She sent us to the hospital to get an x-ray and return. When we came back she said there was a lot of fluid building up around the elbow and it looked like a break. They couldn't tell where exactly the break was, they had to put a splint on and wrap it all up. She told us to call a Pediatric Orthopedist in the morning to re-look at the x-rays and then cast the arm.

Spencer got a milk shake out of the whole thing, but actually he seemed to enjoy the entire process...

When we went to get the x-rays Spencer thought it was a picture of a dinosaur bone in his arm. He was so excited. He kept asking the tech. if there were dinosaurs in the x-ray room. He held really still while they took pictures and then the tech. let him look at the images. This was like a grand adventure for him. What awesome "Dinosaur" bones in his right arm. The doctor who wrapped his arm was super sweet and played into the dinosaur game. They covered his wrap in dino stickers and then let him look at the images of the bones again. He was so proud of his arm! It was quite cute, but as parents we weren't feeling so thrilled. We felt really bad!!

Back at home playing dinosaurs! He looked like he was doing much better. This morning when he woke up he was a little less excited about the big wrap on his arm and the lack of mobility. Hopefully he does okay with it. We love our cute little cautious guy. For those of you that really know him you know he NEVER does anything dangerous. I thought Landon would be in the Hospital with a broken arm 5 times before Spencer ever was!