"Where's Madi....Where did she go?" Madi opens the lid on the box, pokes her head out and gives mom a cheesy smile as she shouts "I hiding!" This picture really surprised me because she rarely smiles! It's not often I get a picture of her and a cute smile to go along with it! 
Ryan and I, along with our family, have been praying to find a house with a yard for Madisen to be able to explore, grow and learn new things. We really wanted this for her mostly and also for a place for Mom to do her crafts and keep her sanity. Going on 6 years of apartment living and moving 9 times since we have been married, we really felt like it was time to get a modest home (to rent) for all of our needs. Well after a few months with no success, Ryan and I kind of gave up on the wish to get a house we could afford with the things we needed. Just a few weeks later we heard of this home, went and looked at it and it is perfect for us! We were so excited about it! It's just the thing we had been praying for. Ryan and I just needed to have more faith that Heavenly Father is watching out for us and always has. We have been humbled and we truly feel blessed and grateful for so many things in our lives!
Elbow Injury!
So last night Ryan and Madi were playing around in a maze of boxes that has grown out into our living room. Ryan made sort of a fort with a path leading to the bookcase. Madi really enjoys hiding like every toddler, but it was time for bedtime. We gave Madi a few more minutes to play then it was bedtime. As time was up she threw a fit and didn't want to stop playing. Ryan went over to hold her hand to help her out of the small area around the boxes, when all of a sudden Madi started crying really hard, and screaming, "I hurt, I hurt!" Ryan and I looked at each other puzzled wondering what had happened. Madi was holding her elbow in her other hand. We still weren't sure what had happened. Just thought she hit it on the bookcase or a box, but she was crying way to much for that. Then we noticed she didn't want to use her arm. As she was crying she kept telling us, "I need a bandaid...I need a bandaid..." (over and over again).
She had popped her elbow out of the joint a little over a year ago and we realized that's what had happened again. Ryan tried to pop it back in himself, getting trained how to do it the last time it happened to her. (I guess it happens a lot to kids). But after just 10 minutes or so, which seemed a lot longer, he realized he wouldn't be able to do himself and would have to take her to the ER. She was so brave Ryan said, as the doctor popped her elbow back into place. The nurse there brought her a little bear and Ryan had blown up a doctor's glove into a ballon for her. And the one thing she wanted most was a bandaid for her hurt...lol, which the doctor so happily put on her elbow! This is a picture of her wrist band from the ER....but her bandaid fell off before I could get a picture of it! Anyway the story turns out that she survived! Phew! ;)
2 comments:
what a great start on your blog! do you guys need any help packing? sad about madi's elbow!
In my defense, Madi is a really wiggly child and occasionally wiggles herself into painful situations, like the attached story. She was so very brave though, and I was more proud of her that night than I have ever been.
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