The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

Injured for real

Well, get this – Maxwell has a broken leg.  A BROKEN LEG.  Are you kidding?  My poor, poor buddy.  What an ordeal.

When Maxwell woke up yesterday morning, he still wasn’t wanting to walk at all.  I called his pediatrician first thing and they said that since he wasn’t putting any weight on the leg, we should take him into the pediatric orthopedist.  I really thought he was just going to tell us it was a sprained ankle but, no such luck.  At our appointment at 1:00 they took some x-rays of his little leg and, sure enough, he has a fracture in his shin.  What bone is that?  I’m not even sure.  I’m not sure who was crying harder when the doc told us the news – me or Maxwell!  They put a little baby blue cast on his leg and he can’t walk for two weeks.  Two weeks of no walking at all.  Wow.  No playing on the playground, no running in the yard, no pushing his lawnmower, and, very sadly, no school.  So, so sad.  After two weeks, we go back for another x-ray and they will likely put on a walking cast that he will wear for another two weeks.  The doctor then said that it will probably take another two weeks after that for everything to go back to normal.  So, we’re looking at a 6 week ordeal.  Again, my poor, poor buddy.

Trying to look on the bright side – at least this isn’t the middle of the summer.  He’ll have it off before pool and sprinkler time is in full force, thank goodness!

Some pictures of his “casting”….

Pitiful…

So pitiful…

Robert was trying to entertain with a Sesame Street video…


All finished and doing a little better…

Maxwell really handled it all like a champ.  Especially given that the appointment was smack dab in the middle of his nap time.

Home and happy again…

Full view of his cast…

Don’t you like the baby blue?  I picked it so it would match his Easter outfit!  🙂

Giving him a bath last night was interesting.  If you see him over the next two weeks and he looks a little dirty – please forgive us!

If any of you have been through this before and have any advice, I’ll gladly take it.  Any ideas on activities for an 18 month old that you can do sitting down?  Would LOVE those.  I’m seeing a lot of Sesame Street videos and coloring in our future for the next 6 weeks!

Life is always an adventure,  no?

Injured

Not much to report today, except that I thought Maxwell broke his leg yesterday. He was climbing down the stairs outside while trying to pull his lawn mower down with him and managed to fall off the last step and land head first on the bricks. His head is pretty scraped up. I thought that was the worst of it but then we noticed that every time we put him down, he’d cry when he put any weight in his left leg. Poor, poor buddy. After considering a trip to the ER, we decided it’s probably just a sprain or twisted ankle. Hopefully he’ll be running around like normal today. As Robert said, this won’t be the last injury we deal with! I guess I have to get used to life with rambunctious boys!

Today, just a few pictures that were on my camera…

I love Maxwell checking out his reflection in the buffet…

Who is the good looking boy looking back at me?!

Maxwell loves to stand on his tip toes and look out the window. I think he was waiting for Robert to come home this day…

Love the sunshine on his face!

And finally, I think he kinda looks like he’s rocking out on his spatula guitar here…

No?

Cutest little rocker I’ve seen!

ps – like his fish shirt? I made it! Find out how here.

See you tomorrow!

Weekend recap

What a great and jam-packed weekend we had!  What did we do?  Let’s let my iphone walk you through…

Saturday morning Robert went to work a Habitat for Humanity build so Maxwell and I hung out at home in our St. Patty’s Day green…

We then went to Target where he tried on some more silly hats…

After Target we stopped by the park.  Maxwell went across the shaky bridge all by himself…

Climbed up the ramp all by himself…

Swung on the newly restored tire swing…

Swung on the swings (of course)…

and played in the play house!

Phew!  All the playing made him hungry so we went home where Maxwell fed himself some yogurt…

Lovely.  side note – yes, those are mini corn dogs on his tray.  Actually they’re Morningstar Farms Veggie Corn Dogs and they’re really good.  Maxwell loves them.

Maxwell then went down for a nap and I got out in the yard and pulled weeds, weeds and more weeds in the beds. I was pulling LOTS of clover but never found any four-leafers!  Guess the luck of the Irish wasn’t on my side this St. Patrick’s Day!

When Maxwell woke up from his nap we had some special visitors…

Lulu and Granddaddy!  Maxwell loved all the attention as usual.

Maxwell took a liking to Lulu’s shiny jewelry and before he could say “earring” he was all decked out!

That evening, Robert, Maxwell and I went to dinner at a new Mexican place in downtown Birmingham.  El Barrio.  If you haven’t been yet – go.  It was SO good.  The only problem was that they only had 1 high chair in the whole restaurant (what?!) so we had to make do with a booster seat.  I was pretty nervous about Maxwell sitting in a booster seat for an entire meal but he did GREAT!  He sat at the head of the table and we all enjoyed every second of our dinner!  Maxwell clearly knew he was too cool for school in that booster seat!

After dinner, Robert and Maxwell proved once again that they’re the spitting image of each other!  🙂

The hand in the pocket just kills me.

The next day involved plenty more yard work.  Maxwell loved getting to play outside with us.

He was a big help “mowing” the lawn.

It was a hot March day too – check out those rosy cheeks!

Maxwell’s favorite part was watching Dad play with all of his power toys! (not sure that Robert would agree that he was “playing”!)

Bubbles were a close second though!

After our work outside was done, Maxwell did a little cleaning inside…again, so helpful.

Phew!  that was long!  Hope you had a great weekend too!

Balanced

No Friday Favorite again this week.  Instead, a little reminder for life…

It’s important to stay balanced.  Work, play – you have to keep it all in check!  I’m glad to see Maxwell is clearly taking some time to stay centered in the middle of his busy day.

I hope you all have a balanced and GREAT weekend!

ps – check out his new kicks!