Emma and The Broken Leg

Yes....you all read it correctly. Emma broke her leg about two weeks ago and it has been crazy. On my birthday (Happy Birthday to me!) we were actually trying to celebrate Maddie's first birthday. Before the party even began, Emma was jumping on the trampoline with her Uncle and her cousin. On a crazy double bounce, Emma just kind of collapsed and starting crying. So her Uncle Nathan carried her in to see her momma and I just thought she was a little hurt and needed some lovin'. But when she didn't stop crying, I started to get suspicious since she is usually a pretty tough girl. I measured her ankles and the hurt leg was 1/2 inch bigger. Poop! So we decided to have Jacob take her to the hospital while I stayed and tried to salvage Maddie's first birthday party so she could at least have some pictures to look back on. It didn't go so well. Jacob called me right when we sat down to open presents to tell me that not only did she break BOTH BONES in her leg, but that they were going to have to "set" it because the bones weren't straight. I was a mess by then so it was probably better I wasn't there. They had to send daddy out of the room while they did it and then brought him back in to be the "hero" and save her. She then got a soft cast with a splint on it for two weeks until the swelling went down and they were able to put a hard cast on her. Jacob had to leave the next day for high adventure for 5 days so my family (thank you!) came to help me until he got home. He also took the camera so I have a few random shots of her with her cast on. She is not able to walk on it at all but now that she has a hard cast on she has no problem getting around. She crawls everywhere, climbs up and down the stairs and can get on to any table or chair. She is quite the little trooper!