Last Thursday, Patrick's parents rented a house in Wisconsin for the week. So, I decided to take the kids by myself on Thursday and Patrick was going to come on Friday for the weekend. Kathleen, Michael, and Mary all came too, so we were really looking forward to having a good time. (Which we did, despite Caroline breaking her leg). On Saturday, we went into town and let Caroline play at the park while some of us played tennis. After a little while, Caroline wanted to come watch Mommy play. I took a break and she was sitting on my lap. She got up and just tripped and twisted her leg in the right way. (I really thought she had just scraped her knee because it didn't look like she did anything). She cried for about 30 minutes and at that point, Patrick thought she might have broken it...
When we got back to the house, she cried for about 2 hours, off and on (more on than off). We iced her leg and elevated it so she was comfortable. On Monday, we took her in to the children's hosptial that Patrick worked at last year to have x-rays and a cast put on. She has what is called a "toddler's fracture." She had a VERY traumatic day with the x-rays and the cast. She's doing better everyday but still hasn't walked or put much weight on her cast. She'll have it on for 3 weeks total (She gets it off on Aug. 4-two days after her birthday...) and hopefully we will still have most of Aug. and Sept. to do some more swimming!! But, you never know with Minnesota.
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