Life the Adventure

On Monday, May 24th, Alexandria broke her right leg - specifically a spiral fracture in her tibia - near the growth plate in her ankle but not affecting the growth plate which we later found out was a very positive factor of the break.

With about 6 to 7 weeks to go with baby #4 appearing, this was definitely a curve ball in the adventure of life for us. However as with our oldest son's femur fracture, for some reason we don't understand as of yet, apparently Lexie is destined to need a super strong right tibia bone at some point in the future :). Another interesting antecdote to the whole affair - Lexie is 20 months old right now when the break occurred and Josiah was also 20 months old with his femur fracture. We can't quite comprehend the coincidence of age with these broken bones but have made a resolve with baby #4 - let's just get he or she past 20 months and we should be good to go!

Lexie got her permanent cast put on last Thursday, May 27th up at Children's hospital in Milwaukee. Since we were familiar enough with their pediatric orthapedic center there and knew them to be the experts in this area, it was an easy choice to go that direction. The current cast that she has on is not per say a 'walking cast'. In fact, the way in which they cast her leg has a definitive bend by her knee so as to prevent her from walking. But at the same time, they said that she could walk on it if she wanted to...well now then, the update at almost a week into the permanent cast and Lexie has determindedly been walking! Hard to believe but again she is a determined little thing and she does not do well with not keeping up with her brothers very well.

Even though she is somewhat mobile at this point, she still does require to be held a lot and understandably so with the frustration of being limited by the cast as to what she can do. We are looking forward to mid-June when the current cast comes off and we hopefully get an official walking cast put on. I don't see her really skipping a beat with walking once we get the new cast off and then the walking cast off...she shows no fear of walking which is great (she even tried to climb the ladder of the boy's bunk beds today!) and no pain. Amazing really!

OK well here's a few photos - first off the x-ray of the tibia fracture - you'll see at the base of her ankle a very thin line curving up and around the bone, that very small thing is the tibia fracture and it's hard to believe that that has caused all of this! And then a few other Lexie photos to enjoy at 20 months - including a photo of her pretty pink cast with glitter on it!!! :)

Couldn't quite get her to smile...


Very excited to be wearing her brother's swim goggles!