The Official Cast

Waiting for the Doctor to check everything out.... Jen praying for a miracle - I really didn't want to have Spence in a cast for 6 weeks of the summer. I was already disappointed that we would have to cancel his swimming lessons.

The dinosaur bone in Spencer's arm! The confirmation that he truly did have a broken arm.

Spencer waiting to get his BLUE cast. He looked a little worried when all he saw was white gauss being wrapped around his arm. He requested blue and was really excited about it!

Here it is... the handsome blue cast. So far I wasn't in any of the pictures and Nick asked if I was trying to pretend that I had nothing to do with the broken arm. He thought I was trying to distance my self by only taking pictures of the boys - Like it was a guy thing and mommy has nothing to do with broken arms. So here I am...

The blue cast and the little cautious boy :O)

Funny, but not funny story - I was over at a friend's house for a meeting the morning before his appointment. I brought a movie over for Spencer to watch, but after a while all the little kids wanted to go outside in the backyard and play. He felt really left out, so I told him he could join with the exception that he was not allowed on the trampoline. Three minutes later I see him jumping on the trampoline. The doctor of course warned me about further injury until he had a hard cast on, so I quickly ran out and told him he wasn't allowed to jump, but he could walk around on the grass. Another three minutes go by and I see him trip, land on his arm and scream out. I ran to pick him up, but he wouldn't stop crying. I quickly said good-bye and headed home. I think he was crying more about leaving his friends by this point than the arm, but of course I was still being a protective mother....

All seemed fine, but no kidding, when we met with the doctor he said a simple cast would do the trick for about three weeks unless he had re-injured it since the first x-ray. I mentioned that he fell on it, and he said it probably didn't do anything unless he cried out etc. (Huh - do you think crying for a whole 20 minutes falls into this category?!) Dang - another x-ray. Luckily the 2nd x-ray showed no displacement, thus no surgery and hopefully he will get his cast off on his birthday when we go in on the 23rd.