At 26 weeks pregnant I started this blog for my son Rooney. The plan was to document feelings, body changes and eventually to share pictures of our son with friends and family. 4 years later, with the addition of Rooney's little sister, Ailbe, we are now sharing the lives of our 2 kiddos. I'm not sure how long this blog will go on for but as long as people are reading we'll keep posting.
There are many moments when you feel proud as a parent but one of the most rewarding (so far) is when you realize your child has learned something you tried to teach them. There are two instances of this happening in this blog post and both happened moments apart.
First moment came when Rooney and I were counting his saved allowance. Roon really wants to buy a Puffle. For awhile now in an attempt to teach Rooney about money, what things cost and what it means to earn something you want we have been giving him an allowance. To buy things he wants he can use his allowance and or add it to a Wish List for birthdays, Christmas etc. We were counting his allowance & I told him he probably needed about $10. As I was counting I told him I thought he just had a little over $5. I didn't catch it at the moment but he replied "Oh this is going to take forever to get 5 more dollars!". I knew he knew some math but I was impressed. Since he didn't have enough money I told him maybe he could earn some. Mike was mowing the lawn so I sent him outside to see if Mike had a job for him to do to earn some moolah. Mike gave him a job of raking which is what Rooney is doing in this pic.
In the meantime Renae texted me to see if Rooney could play with Felix. I figured Rooney's raking job wouldn't be too long so I said sure. When Rooney was done raking Mike said that there really wasn't enough of a job for him to do for $5 but would pay him $1. I told Rooney that Aunt Renae asked if he could play and that maybe he could earn some loot when he got home. Then he had his own great idea he was going to ask Uncle Dana if he had any jobs to earn $4 more dollars!
Last week marked another milestone for Ailbe. This is a milestone that many of us in this Wade house have never reached...our first broken bone.
I recently noticed that Ailbe was starting to throw her leg over her crib rail when I would stand next to the crib. I mentioned to Mike that we should probably drop the mattress down to its lowest level, but since Rooney never really crawled out of his crib (and certainly not at 16mo.) I didn't think too much about it. I even snapped a few pics of her with her leg over because I thought it was kind of funny. Of course it all came back to bite me (and Ailbe) in the ass when last Wednesday after Ailbe was put down for the night Mike heard her crying I don't think she was wailing and normally Mike probably would have let her cry a bit to see if she would console herself, but this time he went in and found her on the floor.
I was in the middle of supervising Rooney in the shower when Mike brought her in. Mike had hurt his forearms in a freak gym accident so when he asked me to unzip her sleep sack I thought it was too help him because he couldn't. Ailbe was kind of crying but I was flipping her around trying to get her out of Mike's arms and trying to unzip the sleep sack for him. I thought he was just going to change her diaper but as I was juggling her around he asked me to look at her elbow and then told me he found her on the floor.
I got her out of her sack and checked her arm. I noticed she was grabbing her taggie blanket and pacifier. She was holding onto me but was also grabbing her right hand with her left. I kept inspecting but it did not appear anything was broken. I was going to take her to the ER, then I wasn't, then I was, then I wasn't. I just wasn't sure. Eventually I decided to wait until the morning because she could move her hand & grab things so I thought maybe it was just sore and/or bruised. Rooney had the longest shower of his bathing career and Ailbe went down for the night.
The next morning when I noticed she was reluctant to use her right hand to help herself stand up I decided to see the MD. Pip was not crying too much and at times she would giggle. I still wasn't sure if anything was broken but I thought she might come home with a splint or the MD might say that she had a hairline fracture in her hand. It was a long afternoon at the MD's but after a couple of x-rays it turns out Pip broke both the bones in her wrist. She ended up with a cast on her right arm that extends from above her elbow to the first digit on her fingers. After the first afternoon Ailbe stop noticing the cast (and stopped walking in circles) and may have even found some benefits to it such as bopping Rooney on the head.
Cast Shmast. What broken wrist? As you can see from the video below she's adapting pretty well. Only 3 more weeks to become a permanent lefty.
