Gimped Peanut

I think I deserve the worst mother of the year award today. In fact, I think I'll just reward myself with it right now! Done. Why do I deserve it? I took my eyes and attention off my daughter for a matter of seconds and turned just in time to see her reaching over the first stair and tumbling down all seven of them!

She cried for a few minutes and after I got her calmed down I moved all the extremities for discomfort and nothing. So I figured everything was okay. There was no loss of consciousness and no major injuries (besides my self esteem) so I went back to getting things ready for dinner. We had some friends over and had a great time. After dinner, we got Peanut down to join the bubble fun and she walked a few steps and started crying. She was totally favoring the right leg and would barely walk. She wanted to so bad but would just start crying. We talked it over and decided to watch her and see how she was doing in the morning cause maybe it was just a sprain or bruised bone or something. Well at midnight she woke up just screaming and we couldn't really calm her down. After I finally got through to Wee Care she was sleeping but not soundly. The nurse convinced me to just take her into the ER "just in case."

So after about 5 hours in the ER

We have our little gimped Peanut

They couldn't see any fractures in the X-rays but they say that there can still be something that's not showing up and from his examination the Dr believes she has what they call a "Toddler Fracture." He said they're fairly common and that the immunosuppression drug she's taking already predisposes her to easy bone injuries. So she got a pre-cast splint which we will take off in about 4 days and if she's still in pain then they'll probably put a cast on.

So, in the end, we have a mother who feels absolutely horrible and a little girl who's back to wanting to go places but having a hard time getting there! :(

Where I've Been. . .

She's been crawling like a maniac and walking with assistance for a while now (these videos are kinda old) and just never wants to sit still! So if we're somewhere that she can't crawl she'll grab for my fingers and off she goes!

(Sorry for the video angle but I don't know how to change it.)

While I'm glad that she can finally get where she wants to go on her own, I'm not ready for her to be mobile yet. As you will see (have seen) in one of my next posts.

Family Pictures

Back in the middle of July we went down to Provo for Mikki to take some pictures for us. She did a great job! And we had lots of fun (especially eating ice cream!) Here's some of my favorites. . .

Girls Camp

I was lucky enough to be called into the YW Presidency in May and I absolutely love it! We have the most awesome girls in our ward who are seriously some of the greatest examples to me. This past weekend, I decided to leave my sick peanut home and head off to Girls Camp for a couple of days and I am SO glad I did! It was so much fun!

This is almost everyone who was there

Thanks to Luke and his co-worker's wife, Susan, for taking such good care of Peanut while I was gone!

Ear-Infected Peanut

I've been "out" for the past few days because I ended up buying Breaking Dawn at the midnight release party Friday night. (So, yes, I'll have two copies if I can't return one. Let me know if you're interested!) I was going to blog about it but got a little too busy reading. Malerie did a great job blogging about it (not to mention the super cool Breaking Dawn blog background) so you can just go check out the pictures there. My favorite was the little girls dressed up as Rosalie and Alice. It was crazy to see all the Twilight fans - very entertaining.

I finished the book today and absolutely loved it! It was a very crazy, fantastic ending to the Twilight saga.

Back to the post title. . .

We all went to bed Sunday night and everything was fine, for a couple of hours at least. Then Peanut started waking up frequently. Luke would get up to make sure she had her binks. And I figured it was becuase I tried to feed her too much too fast. After she kept waking up after her food was done, I decided to take my turn (4:30 am). I went to move her back up in bed and she just about fried my hands off she was so hot! I took her temp and it was 102.8. So I strip her down, turn the swamp cooler on and bring her to our bed cause we have a ceiling fan in our room. She slept pretty good after that and by morning her temp had come down. I called the doctors to let them know and of course there was no answer. So I just left a message cause I didn't really feel like it was an emergency. They call back around one, which by then Peanut was pretty much back to her normal self, and I tell them the story The doc wants to get some labs done and to look at her ears just in case. So it was off to the hospital! We go to registration and we wait. We go to the lab and we wait. They put the urine bag on and we wait. We go to the doctor's office and we wait. The urine bag doesn't catch anything so another one goes on and we wait. The doctor's waiting for lab results and has to go to a meeting so we wait. All the while Peanut refused to eat or sleep which is very draining for both of us! Still no urine and still no doc so we wait. The doc gets out of her meeting looks at the labs. Determines that it's an ear infection but also notices that Peanut tested positive to EBV the end of June! The results got missed because of some copmuter error I guess. So Peanut's on an antibiotic for the ear infection, an antiviral for the EBV, and extra stress doses of prednisone. Just when I thought we were doing well and the meds were slowing trickling off! And not to mention that Peanut's been drinking about 6 oz a day! On her own! From a sippy cup! Great progress!

Peanut really is doing great! While the doc is concerned about the EBV, she's not totally stressing it. So I'm trying not to stress over it. My delemia from all of this is that I was hoping to go up to girl's camp on Thursday but am now worried to leave my peanut. What to do, what to do. . .