Josie's First Visit to the ER

Our little girl fell off the bed this morning, more like jumped off. I had left the room to get something and came back to find her scooted to the edge. I was at the door when I saw the back of her leap off the far side of the bed. I immediately ran over and found her tummy down crying hysterically. It had totally scared her and me too. I wanted to remain calm so that I could calm her down. She soon stopped crying but just wanted me to hold her so I did. I decided that the fall scared her more than anything because I was able to calm her and she acted as if she was fine. I decided that I did not need to take her to the ER. I then laid her on the bed. She wanted her blanket and me to lay beside for a while so I did. Finally I decided that she needed to eat, it had been an hour past the time she usually ate.

Still in her footie pajamas, I took her to her room to change her. I touched her right foot and she whimpered. I then played around with her foot and she started to cry. I touched her ankle and nothing just when I messed around her toes did she cry. I then tried to stand her up and she would not put any weight on it so I decided that I needed to take her to the ER. Where we live there is an emergency center right across our townhouse community. Her carseat was wet from being washed so I put her in her stroller and walked over there.

She did fine until they took us back to a room. As soon as we walked in she immediately started to cry from fear of getting the shot. That's the only reason we show up in a room like this is to get a shot and have strangers poke around at you. I got her to calm down but then the doctor walked in and she started up again. He had the personality of a wet rag which is probably common in an ER setting but he examined her and set us up for some x-rays. At least the nurses were very nice and comforting.

Two girls who were the x-ray techs came back to get us. The let me hold her in position which I was very grateful. I laid her down and she immediately started to cry. She just knew there was a shot coming. They put an apron on me and a tiny one on her. They instructed me how to hold her and we took three or four pictures, a couple of her foot and of her leg from her knee down. We went back to the room where the nurses were very attentive.

First the x-ray techs asked me if I wanted a blanket for her or if I wanted to lay down with her. The nurses showered her with stickers. The doctor came back with the news that she fractured her leg. I was totally not expecting that and the tears just flowed out of me. She fractured her tibia right above her foot. He told me that they would splint it and I would need to follow up with an orthopedic for a real treatment plan.

He left and I just held her close to me, probably smothering her and bawled. A very nice woman from registration came in and consoled me. She hugged me tightly and reminded me that I am not the only mom to go through this. Her advice is to have a couple more and this will seem minor. Still she is so tiny and young and to think of her suffering in anyway while I am fine just cut right through me. She was a trooper the only time she cried is if I touched her foot or medical personelle walked through the doors, mostly for the medical personelle.

Of course what would an ER visit be without the need to give an IV. One nurse came in and once I told her what happened she immediately started spouting out IV, "she needs an IV," without talking to the doctor. I was not having an unnecessary IV placed in her. Anyway she talked to the doctor and later apologized saying that she only needed to apply a splint. She measuered her leg and gathered the supplies. She put on the splint and it looked so tiny on Josie's little leg. Another nurse came in and gave us some instructions then discharged us. She will go to the orthopedic doctor tomorrow at 11am for a follow up. Until then here's a picture of our little girl's first injury.

Thursday June 3, 2010

Ok it is now tomorrow and I have an update. I actually put up this entire post today. My computer is so slow that it has taken me a while to get to my photos and videos.

I did take Josie to the orthopedist and he said that her leg looked really good. It was a clean break. She freaked out and would not let him touch her foot to which he replied, "well she just showed me everything I needed to see. She has great movement in her toes and she rotates her ankle. There is hardly any swelling." They put a better splint on her with a lot more padding in it and supports on the back of her leg down her foot to her toes as well as down the sides of her leg. They also put tape around it so she couldn't pull at it as much. She was really cute when they were wrapping her leg. She held it out and would talk and point at it as if she was knew all about what they were doing. They did a splint because little ones can maneuver easily out of any kind of splint and cast so there was not any point in putting her in a fiberglass cast. I take her back in a week for more x-rays and back again the next week. He said that is her third x-ray looked good she could get her splint off at that time. So if it looks good that is a total of three weeks only in her splint! She will also not need to go to physical therapy! He said that by a year's time that you would not even be able to tell that she ever had a broken bone! Yay!!!!!!!!! I will post her new splint soon. She is napping at the moment hence why I am able to do this post!

Mmmm... grilled cheese!

So we are in a bit of a crossroads with Josie and her eating. She didn't really start to eat solids until she was 11 months. Her stomach couldn't handle it. She is doing great and her tastes are broadening a bit. We still give her a little bit of the pureed baby food stuff but she has moved on to green beans, marshmallows, pretzels, cereal (so far its Golden Grams and Cheerios), cheese, chocolate (loves it like her daddy), grilled cheese, and as of a couple of days ago chicken and rice. She has many dislikes as well and finding fruit that she likes is difficult. She only eats peaches right now. She does not like bananas but she will eat banana bread. She eats other things as well I just can't remember them all at the moment. It also depends upon her mood and what she will eat, but aren't we all that way. She is our funny girl. The crossroads is that she is really wanting to feed herself and its really cute. I had to record her eating her grilled cheese.

I know how many grilled cheese pictures and videos do you need, but she is just so darn cute!

Easter Finale

So Easter came and poor Josie didn't get her Easter basket until that evening. We still had to put it together. We didn't get to do it the night before because we got home so late from preparing our new home. We all slept in and we finally put her basket together while she was down for her nap. That's why she is in our bedroom during all of this. I found the bunny ears I made for her and she looks more like a little kid now than the baby that wore them last year. I could write more but we have lots of video footage to get through and it tells the story well.

Last Year's Picture

My little baby is getting big :(

Easter Weekend

Our Easter weekend started on Friday with a visit to a very cute park not too far from our new home. It's called Frying Pan Farm and this time of year is the perfect time to go and see baby farm animals. It is wide open with different pens and fields for the animals. There is a visitors center, a playground, an old country store, several barns filled with old farming equipment, a 4-H building, a show arena, and a grill to get some food. It's free to go in but you have to pay for the wagon rides. Grant liked the fact that the wagons were pulled by an old Farmall like his Aunt Alice has.

It was such a beautiful spring day and many families were there. We went around lunch time and there were several families having a picnic with blankets spread throughout the grassy areas designated us people. You could pet the animals and they had hand washing stations once you were done. They also had little areas for talks about the animals and a cow milking station where they show you how and I believe that you could try milking them as well. The sign there said next milking session 4pm. Fun!

So now for the animals. We saw turkeys, a peacock, goats, chickens, baby chicks, ducks, cows, calves, sheep, lambs, horses, a pig and piglets. Josie had fun and it was nice to show her animals that look like the one from her play farm! When we looked back at the video it seems the only animals she wasn't thrilled about were the pigs. It could be there were so many kids in there. She enjoyed watching the other kids as well.

The rest of the day was spent at our new house sealing the grout in the tile and running errands. We did not make it back home until after midnight. We were all tired. Grant had to do some work so Josie and I just vegged on the couch for a little bit. She loves kleenex boxes and to pull the tissues out one by one. She usually has her own box but being tired I just handed her the one we were using. This is what happens when mom zones out.

Wow, I think I will have to do a part two later. To follow will be an Easter Basket for Josie and Moving day for us! We move Thursday!

Construction Site Walk-through

A month ago we visited the construction site of our townhouse. They had just begun the framing that week and were going to put on the roof the next day. It wasn't much to look at but we were excited anyway because they were making progress.


Our unit is on the bottom of the building, floors 1 and 2. Looking at the back, our garage is on the left. There is another unit above us, it starts on the third floor, you have to walk up two flights of steps just to get to your living room.


So today we were able to visit our new home and do a walk-through inspection of the framing, electrical, plumbing and window installation with the builder.

The front

Our lot is #89, this is our living room window and our front-door. The ground was very muddy because of all the melting snow.



So much progress in such a short time, it was very exciting


The back


In order to go inside the construction zone we were required to wear hardhats. Josie kept reaching up and touching them so finally I let her put mine on.


Mindy is looking stylish in hers.


It was an interesting experience to be able to see where all of the outlets, plugs and other receptacles will be. Also to know which walls are load bearing and which ones have pipes running through them.

They will begin hanging drywall this week and should be all finished by the end of next month or the first week of April. We'll get to do another walk-through right before closing.

Here are some pictures of what it looks like now.

The living room

Looking out the window

On the other side of that wall is the stairs for the upstairs unit


The kitchen (Builder on the left, inspecter on the right)


The stairs



Master bedroom

We have a box window that can be a seat.


From inside the closet, where there is also another window


Looking at the door towards the hallway and stairs


Josie's room

More Happy Birthday Hat Pictures

So I found these pictures on my camera and remembered that Josie liked her hat once she saw herself in the mirror.

Josie Turns One... well a month ago!

Yeah I'm behind. We did celebrate Josie's birthday the weekend it fell on. We wanted it to be based on Elmo but the bakery was out of the cake toy so we decided on a Tinkerbell cake instead. First of all that's all they had that was cute on short notice, second of all she likes Tinkerbell as well and third Grant calls her Stinkerbell on a regular basis. We did keep and wear the Elmo hats however. Her favorite parts of the day was squishing the cake in her hands but not eating it and playing with her mylar Elmo balloon. We should have stopped with the mylar balloon, she thought that it was the best thing that we have ever given her! Anyways on to the photos! Oh I do apologize for the ugly vaccum cleaner in the background. I tried to move it out of the way but it ended up in them anyways. Hopefully she will forgive me later!

Josie's One Year Pictures

Hi everyone! Welcome to our new blog. The old blog will continue to be up so you can still see all of the older posts. I am starting with Josie's one year pictures because any other video not working can be seen in the "more videos" tab in the upper right hand corner of the old blog. Enjoy!