Ethan

Ethan has always been our cautious child. But on Friday he threw caution to the wind and decided it would be fun to jump off the monkey bars at school. We iced it on Friday night hoping it would be better by Saturday morning but it was only worse. So we took him to the doctor and had them do an X-ray. Luckily his foot didn't break but he did sprain it pretty bad. They put a splint on it and told us not to let him walk on it. We pulled out my old crutches and went to work teaching him how to use them. He did not pick it up too well and was very frustrated at himself for not being able to use them right. It didn't help that Christlyn has speeding through the house on another old pair of crutches like an old pro.
By Sunday he was done with the crutches and it was more a fight to get him to even try to use them. After a few hours of carrying him around I said enough was enough and told him if he could walk on his foot without it hurting then go right ahead. So he's been limping around since then, happy to be free of the crutches.