New Shoe

A week before her second birthday, Violet took a fall off our bunk bed ladder (about a 5 foot drop). She of course was right within my arms' reach and I watched the whole thing without being able to intervene. She had on her new fluffy princess dress and it ballooned out like a parachute. It failed to break her fall significantly. All the dress obscured the exact nature of her landing, but I could tell by her cry it was not good. She calmed down, but she refused to put any weight on her right foot. She just sat where ever you put her. Anyone who knows Vi knows this is highly unusual. It was a Friday evening, so we decided to avoid the ER and see what tomorrow held. She ate dinner that night and slept peacefully with some ibuprofen. Next morning, she was her usual sweet self except she announced she was a doggie and crawled around on all fours barking and playing...avoiding walking at all costs. We contacted the doctor and some other specialists on campus and decided to wait till Monday. The consensus was that it was probably just a soft tissue injury. She just crawled around the rest of the weekend.

On Monday, the pediatrician felt her leg and sent us to a orthopedist who confirmed a toddler fracture. In less than an hour, she had a violet cast on her sweet little leg. She called it her new shoe. She couldn't wait to show her daddy.

We sprung for the gortex, water-proof model (a whopping $30!).

After a week, she was walking everywhere with her new shoe.

They didn't have a boot small enough to fit her little foot so she wore a sock with grippers on it.

I sent my daughter with a broken leg out sledding.

She is completely healed up now and we have the cutest cast ever as a souvenir. Asher thought it might be fun to start a cast collection. I emphatically disagreed!