Daredevil Blade

Can You Spot It?

There are 3 fractures in this picture.

answer: top of 2nd,3rd and 4th metatarsal (long bones)

Blade was on his razor scooter last night trying to "jump/hop" with the scooter and it didn't quite go as Blade had planned and it slipped from under him and the handle came down on the top of his foot. I was upstairs and heard a loud cry...it was a "I really hurt myself" type of cry. Dave was downstairs by Blade and since Dave wasn't calling for me, I didn't rush down to see what was going on. But being a Mom, I had to go down to see what had happened (Okay, if I was a "good" Mom I would have "rushed" right down when I heard the first cry but...).
I assessed the foot the best I knew how and palpated it to located the area of pain, put ice on it, elevated it, gave some tylenol, and then wrapped the foot. Blade's couldn't and wouldn't bare weight on his foot. Dave and I went to bed and then it was so sad to see Blade upstairs crawling across the room to our bed and hear him say, I had to crawl all the way up the stairs like this.

In the morning, he crawled back up to our room and when I checked his foot, it was swollen, still tender to touch and painful when he tried to stand on it.

Yes, a trip to the doctor was in store.
We were able to get an AM appointment at the Ortho center on campus and things went smoothly and Blade did a great job answering questions and letting the doctor do her assessment. I could tell when he was in pain but he didn't cry or even grimace (he doesn't like anyone to see him cry).

Blade was fitted with a boot instead of the old school fiberglass cast, and when we got home just chilled.

Nicole and Chay were surprised when they heard the news. Nicole came home after classes so that she could check on her brother.

Blade is suppose to stay off of it as much as possible until after the week end so that he won't have to worry about crutches. Unfortunately, the boot is working so well that Blade is moving around way too much for my liking. He's a tough cookie.

Dave isn't surprised by any of this. From the time Blade could walk, Dave has said that there are casts and stitches in Blade's future because he is such a daredevil and won't stop until he accomplishes what he set out to do. For example, he would jump off the stairs and would increase each jump a step at a time to see how high he could go and land on his feet (I would stop him before it got too dangerous...for "me"); He would run and do some kind of kick on the wall and when he didn't succeed, would try again and say "this time I'll get it!" (even if he hit the wall and/or fell to the ground). He isn't afraid to try anything and he knows that he can do anything!
What a great quality to have...I hope he never loses that!



Nicole and Blade are tied with 3 fracture...I don't want any records to be broken (no pun intended) . Chay has had one fracture but when he does something he really does it well, he required surgery to repair his. Nicole doesn't mess around either, in 3rd grade she had two compound fractures in her forearm and her arm looked like a step ladder. In the ER she received some "Michael Jackson special" (propofol) and it was reset right there. An amusing story is that when Nicole initially saw her arm, she was afraid because she seriously thought that she was going to be "retarded" (not politically correct but that was the term she used at the time) because her arm looked like that of some severely mentally disabled people.

Chay is trying out for the school musical "The Sound of Music". He has "call backs" tomorrow, wish him luck and say a little prayer for him.

STAR OF THE WEEK

This is Blade's assigned week to be

"Star of the Week"



Along with that title is the opportunity to put something in the star of the week bag on multiple days and each day give a clue and ask on classmates to guess what it is. Today it was "the red bird from Avatar.

On Saturday, Chay helped Blade and fulfilled a wish for him.
For weeks Blade has been telling me that his tooth is loose enough for me to pull it out. I would check it, and it was far from me even attempting to pull it out. However, last week it was very loose and I told Blade that it would probably come out when he bit into something... much o his disappointment, it didn't. Since I wouldn't pull it out on Saturday, he turned to Chay to have Chay check it...then I heard some talk about "it came out". It had only been seconds and Blade hadn't made a sound and so I thought Chay was joking...as usual....until he held the tooth out in his hand for me to see.

Blade said it didn't hurt at all. BUT he was SURPRISED that there was blood...and a lot of it (according to Blade).

(by the way, Blade likes to take his clothes off when he's home and luckily agrees when I have him put pants on...in case you were wondering why he's often shirtless)

Chay is checking out his "work" and is amazed by how tiny the tooth is.

Chay made chocolate chip cookies for the first time without any assistance. They turned out so well that when he went to get some to go with his ice cream on Sunday, they were gone. He cried out in agony and then heard Nicole's laughter...Nicole and Blade had each enjoyed the last two.

See the Izzy bottles on the window sill? Chay is saving those to practise some of the "Minute to Win it" challenges.

Octoberfest

Why is it that boys like to be Super Heroes?

I had a fun costumes for Blade (won't say what it is in case he wears it next year) and a friend from work gave Blade a superman costume that her son had outgrown. I was thinking that it would be fun for Blade next year or just to play around the house...but he saw the Superman costume and fell in love with it. So that's what he wore to the school's evening Halloween carnival and treat or treating. Dave helped at the school for the Halloween parade during the day and Blade wore the "other" costume but, Dave thought the parade started later in the morning and didn't take the camera.


"...Superman stands this way sometimes...."

It was cool and raining Halloween night and I was mistaken when I thought that would mean a slow night for trick or treating. It was busier than usual and I sadly ran out of candy just after 8:00...pathetic I know.

Chay went out with his friend and friend's brother. I'm glad I got a quick picture when they came to the door. Why is it that kids don't want to take the time for mom's to take "posed" pictures?

For years Chay has wanted to be Abu from Aladdin and I never made a costume for him and just thought it would pass. Well, it didn't, and this year I made him a costume. Actually, I made two costumes because I made it in the wrong color the first time due to the fact that the color on my monitor is off....and I had forgotten that.

The boys and their payment after a hard night's work. They had a competition to see who had more treats and Chay won...almost twice as much.

Blade's into this cross-eyed look for pictures lately.
....that can be fixed where I work....

...this however, cannot...

What happens when hair coloring and eye surgery go wrong...

One little girl said when I opened the door "I love your house!".
That made me smile, thinking, it's so nice to know that MY house actually looks great one day of the year! (until we get it painted sometime)

The little black things in the window are rats if you can't tell.
Just cut outs from black paper but look so realistic at night.

This guy had a red blinking head.

This guy only had a head.

It greeted people as they came up the stairs and was activated by motion and the head started moving and talking.
One petite toddler was amazed by this and didn't want to leave, she kept reaching out to it and touching it so that it would move and talk. Brave 2 year old, wasn't scared at all!

This knocker met trick or treaters at the door, was activated by sound and started knocking and talking before their eyes.



Chay trying a new look.



I hope that everyone out there had a fun Halloween (whether it was on Saturday or Sunday)!

Earlier in the month, Chay had performance with his Show Choir. THIS year we went early despite what Chay told us because LAST year at a performance, we went about 15-20 minutes early and there were NO seats.
We found things to entertain ourselves. Dave on his phone, Nicole doodling, Blade on Chay's IPOD, and me transferring info to my new calendar notebook (I'm old school, I like to see an entire month at a time and write things down).

The male part of the show choir.
...we talked with Chay, next time his head will be straight...

Interesting tidbit.
The boy beside Chay is Levi Anderson whose Dad is from Barnwell and the brother of the guy I took to my High School graduation. It really is a small world.

After the show.