Spencer's Arm and Birthday

Last Saturday morning, Kyle was playing with the kids, swinging them around. Suddenly Spencer grabbed his arm and started screaming. Nothing we did could get him to stop crying, so after about 1/2 hour, we called our doctor and they told us to bring him in. After checking his arm out, the doctor sent us to Salem Hospital to get an x-ray of his wrist, arm, and elbow to make sure there wasn't a hairline fracture. Thankfully, it looks like it was just a sprain, but Spencer continued crying anytime we moved him or his arm the rest of the day. They gave us a little splint to stabilize his arm and we wrapped it with an Ace bandage and headed home (after three hours!). When we drove into our garage, we immediately smelled rotten eggs--Natural Gas! Ugh. So we called NW Natural Gas and they came and found a small leak by our water heater. Luckily, it was only in the garage and a quick repair.

Thankfully, the day got better. Later that evening, the Alva Barney clan came to meet Skyler for the first time. We had a great dinner and great time playing/chatting with them. Alva and Wendy were super cute with Spencer and even got him to get up off the couch and walk around a little for the first time since he hurt his arm. Then Kyle's parents stopped by on their way home from serving in the Temple. We celebrated Kyle's mom's, Spencer's, and Skyler's birthdays with some cake and ice cream and opened presents. These pictures show Spencer's cute little splint while he enjoyed his cake. Notice the pajamas he ended up being in all day since I didn't want to have to get them off over his arm.

He has slowly started using his arm more each day since then. He really favored it for a few days and didn't use it at all. He became pretty good at doing everything with his left hand. (Maybe now he'll be ambidextrous!) Today was the first day he really didn't favor it and acted like everything was back to normal. Thank goodness we survived that one. Although, three trips to the Salem Hospital Radiology Department in a year and a half for the same kid is a bit much for me. Hopefully this was the last time. Boys sure are different than girls!