Isaac

This big guy is such a dream to be the parent of.  Always happy.  Always helpful.  Just a wonderful boy.

But sadly, a few weeks back he was down playing in the basement, standing on a toy bin that had been tipped sideways and it caved in on him and he fell and cracked his elbow.  I would have just thought he was fine except for the quiet sobbing and refusal to move it for the next 20 minutes.  So off to instacare we went.  Of course this had already been quite the day for me.  Taylor was up most of the night throwing up with food poisoning and then stayed home the next day needing to be babied but also to have the house quiet- yeah right.  And our furnace went out which wasn't too big a deal since it's been so warm and since we have one for the upstairs too which is where we mostly live.  I called Taylor's mom who came and took the other kids to her house for dinner and playtime and Isaac and I went and got very painful x-rays and a splint.
All smiles the next day since he was doped up on medicine and got to stay home from school.

Isla was pretty excited to have him around to play with and read to.

And the next week after the swelling had gone down we got a real cast.  Unfortunately they had every single color in the rainbow to choose from, except the orange that he wanted.  Turtle green had to do.

And he's back to being his crazy self in the basement.

Luckily this was March when basketball had ended and soccer and swimming hadn't quite begun so having a cast for 3 weeks wasn't a big deal.  But piano presented a bit of a problem.  Isaac was a trooper though and figured it out.

And finally it was time to have it taken off.

Yep, all better now.