Classic Toddler Fracture of the Tibia

in the xray room, pla-dough was the best diversion

Classic Toddler Fracture of the Tibia: that’s what they call it, folks, when your son quietly steps on a ball and twists slightly as he falls to the ground. in other words, Maddox broke his left leg yesterday, while on vacation with his Didi and Big Mo in Chattanooga. Thankfully, his full-time medical team is in Chattanooga!

The actual act was so seemingly minor that we all thought he had just bruised it or was just being a whiner about nothing. However, Didi thought something was actually wrong when he wanted to run and play but only cried when he tried to stand. She took him to (Dr.) Big Mo’s office. He examined him and ruled out a broken foot, turned ankle or strain and suggested the possible leg-break. After an afternoon and evening of tylenol and laying around, he woke up crying at 5am.

this is what it looks like when Dr. Uncle Richard tells you you have a broken leg

Didi took him to our next family member, Uncle Richard, who just happens to be a pediatric orthopaedist. how ironic, right? the xray showed the break, the “classic toddler fracture.” maddox was a good sport amidst continually wanting to walk around at the doc’s and then getting poked and prodded. he got fit into a pediatric boot right away and will be in it for at least 3 weeks. my (joy’s) brothers have both been to richard’s office many times for their sports injuries (spinal injuries and surgery, broken foot and surgery for that) but maddox’s visit was surely the earliest yet.

SO … ANYONE HAVE ANY TIPS FOR KEEPING A TWO YEAR OLD OFF HIS FEET FOR 3 WEEKS?! please bring your kids over for a diversion from his kids shows!

lunch after getting the boot

such a boy

don caught a frog for maddox to see what he thought. you can see from the pics! as i struggled with the heebie jeebies as it hopped everywhere with no warning, he loved it. and loved him a little too much when he commenced throwing him. i think we saved ol fred before any lasting damage.

if you give your kid the clippers…

ok, i did not GIVE him the clippers, but maddox grabbed them and immediately demonstrated the fact that baby nail clippers are not as harmless as i may have thought. he got his hands on them for about 2 seconds today before i grabbed them from him. we continued to play and a few seconds later, i noticed blood on many things including dripping down the window we were beside. yikes. he did not even realize he had hurt himself. he was only upset that i made him hold a wet towel on his finger to try to stop the bleeding! i can’t believe he did not cry about the cut. i mean, he cried at the doctor a few days ago when he was being weighed but did not cry at the finger prick. in fact, he was enthralled watching the blood go into the tube as they collected it. then he wailed at the shot in his arm. hm – maybe his fingers have no feeling?? well, it’s for sure that we can never assume how he’ll react next. oh – he also cried when cora screamed as she got her shots. so tender – that i too had trouble keeping it together there in the pediatrician’s office. sniff.

go go go

maddox has so many loves of his life so he is always on the go these days. there is not enough time in each day to enjoy everything: airplanes, acorns, the swing that don “built” for him in the yard (says “thank you daddy!” every time he sees it), shooting hoops, doing his form of dancing, talking anyone’s ear off, generally making us laugh.
aunt jess took great pics of some of these activities…

play-dough is already getting ground into the floor. it’s worth it!

absolutely obssessed with hunting acorns for his acorn case….

… andn for throwing down the driveway. “der it goes!”

i could shoot hoops all day long

says “thank you daddy!” every time he sees the swing

uncle reed is fun!

SMILE

cora, we’ve been waiting for this day. you gave each of us SMILES – really AT us and not randomly. God was so sweet to let my camera be right there so i got some pics of the first time!

birthday boy

maddox is TWO. he had an awesome birthday despite the fact that we didn’t do a traditional one big party with friends, etc. i banked on the fact that he’d be super happy just with balloons, all the family and some hype spread over a few days and it paid off. next year, i’ll prob have to get more creative. our guy is getting amazing with how much he talks ALL the time and all the things he understands. i could write 5 posts a day with all the new things, but … i think i won’t.

here are b’day pics!

so HAPPY for his 1st party with the thomas clan

obsessed with balloons

nana with baby cora

loving on auntB

so very excited to get a big basketball goal from GG and Pops

on his actual b’day, he went to the “airplane park” with Didi and Big Mo

precious birthday boy

caroline glenn came over in time for the 2nd “party”!

this was as much of the hat as we could get maddox to wear

birthday hug from ELLA!

hi, hiney

the recent post on courtney’s blog inspired me to do this quick post on one of the many things maddox has said that makes us laugh. i guess there will be lots of these to come.

maddox has been begging for hineys. we did not know WHAT he could be talking about since we NEVER talk about hineys in this house – ha – but we have discovered it. he has many small books called “who is hiding?” and so that is what he was wanting. another thing he does very often is say HI to things – anything, animate or inanimate. for instance, i might say ” do you want to go faster?” and he’ll say “faster!” then “hi, faster!” so now we hand him his hiney he says “hi, hiney!”

1 month later, we’re surviving!

here are a couple pics to show a slice of our life today!

can you see the two kids chillin?

maddox is the fuzz patrol. he is quick to find “fuzh” on his passy and he gives it to me to remove the offending fuzz or piece of my hair. now his patrol has expanded to all fuzz on toys or the floor. yikes. if this is the territory, this will be neverending. here he is giving me some fuzz on his book.

cora is beginning to wake up more and more. she is a chunker, weighing 9#5oz at her one month appt. ha. she also had a cold at her one month! maddox’s first cold was at 8 mos and hers is at 1. i am told this is the life of the 2nd child.

it has recently dawned on me that maddox is a slowpoke in the best but truest sense of the word. he is a dawdler at lots of things, not just eating, but at his lunch yesterday was the first time i was laughing uncontrollably at him. it took him about 10 minutes – no joke – to eat one piece of macaroni and about 2 crumbs off a muffin for his lunch. (< yes, i was bribing him to eat by offering him cake at that point.) with a bite, he would lick it, breathe on it, put it in and out of his mouth so many times that it was very creative and very hilarious. he was not unhappy, he was just hanging out, playing with food. i wish i could describe it well enough that you would laugh as much too. but now that i’m typing it, maybe it really wasn’t that funny. maybe lack of sleep had something to do with not being able to stop my laughter. maddox did think it was funny – me laughing that hard. it must have been. that’s our life as of now!

finally some pics of cora’s birthday

here are some select pics of cora’s birth. well, not of her BIRTH, but the events surrounding it!

happy birthday maddox!

ok, so we are breaking blog radio silence to give a nod to Maddox on his big 2nd birthday. although there is little evidence on here to the contrary, much ado has been made celebrating the big day. Maddox partied with G.G., Pops, Aunt B, Uncle D and Cuz Thomas on Saturday, then with Didi and Big Mo on Sunday with a surprise visit from Laura, Michael and Caroline Glenn. And today is the actual day so the party continues although the cupcake inventory is dwindling. Anyway, here is a short vid with Maddox celebrating with himself. hopefully we will present some pics from the parties soon.

P.S. Cora is still great, but this is Maddox’s day – hopefully updates will be coming soon.