In her 2 short years of life, Sophia has accomplished what took me 20 years: she broke a bone.
Yesterday afternoon, Sophia and Hannah were sitting on the top of the couch downstairs. They
aren't supposed to do this and I wasn't downstairs to hold them accountable for that. I was sitting upstairs when I heard the crying and screaming. Hannah was up the stairs yelling for me as fast as I was down the stairs trying to get to my baby. Sophia was laying behind the couch, holding her arm and screaming.
I knew it wasn't good when she cried for a half hour. She's not much of a crier.
But, it didn't turn black and blue or swell. So we waited until this morning when we could go to the clinic instead of the ER. And yep, it was still hurting her this morning. I honestly didn't expect a break, but the x-rays proved otherwise.
She chose a pretty purple cast. (I was really hoping she wouldn't go for the neon pink!) It will need to be on for 6 weeks. The kicker is that it's on her left arm - which is the thumb she sucks to go to sleep. When she tried sucking her thumb after the cast was on, she said, "This not works!" That has been more traumatic for her than any of the rest of this experience.
Here she is sporting the cast and sling:
I've actually been quite amazed at how she's handling this. Not many tears. Hardly any drama. She still runs around singing and dancing. Our little happy-go-lucky kiddo. She doesn't like that she can't suck her thumb, but tonight she showed me that she can rub her bunny's arm against her lips: "This works. I'm happy."
Hannah, in the meantime, isn't sure what to think about it all. At dinner tonight she said, "Do you know what Sophia's cast is teaching me? It's teaching me not to climb things or sit on things that are tall. It's teaching me to be more careful." Good. Not that Hannah needs more caution in her life. Hopefully Sophia learns something too and calms down from her monkey-climbing ways! :-)
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