So... His hand is broken...

Well after Ben falling on his hand at school and it looking horrible. I had him looked at and the nurse said oh its just a sprain nothing to be concerned about. So she wrapped it and we went home. I noticed he was not using it like normal and he did eat his dinner and just wanted to go to bed, which is not like him at all. Then he was up crying most of Tuesday night so I called the doctors office on Wednesday morning and got him in 20 minutes later to be checked out again, this time by the doctor! Well as soon as she saw his hand and how you couldn't even see his knuckles anymore she immediately thought it was broken... So off we went to St. Alexius for x-rays! As soon as the tech took the first one she said she was sure it was broken. Well they read them right away and I saw them and of course it was broken. We went home and waited for the doctor to call to tell us the next move. Today we saw the orthopedist and he set and casted Ben's hand. Ben was a trooper through it all, he held still for them to do everything and only whimpered a little bit when they set his hand! His only issue was with the rules... No jumping off things, no running, no getting the cast wet, no shoving things down it to itch and no showers only baths! All but one of those he had objections to!

Its been a pretty eventful week, hoping this is the last week like this for a long while! So I will leave you with some pictures of Ben's hand, his x-rays and his cast.

Ben's hand the other day

Both of Ben's hands, you can see the left is quite a bit puffier than the right one :(


His x-ray, the break is all the way on the left on the bone that is under his pinkie just above his wrist. They call this a boxers fracture.




Ben's cast, he was thrilled to get to pick what color he wanted it to be :) He loves stars, so he picked this pattern!

April

Last few weeks and Halloween :)

It has been quite eventful around the Ward house the last few weeks! Between sick kids and school things for Ben and traveling back to Indiana, our weeks and weekends have been filled!
A couple weeks ago we found out that Alexander has asthma. We only discovered this because he had he flu mist and it gave him a pretty severe asthma attack :( He had to have breathing treatments every 4 hours and be on steroids for 5 days which made him angry baby! Now we know that he will no longer be able to get the mist, he will have to get the flu shot from now on :(
Yesterday Benjamin fell at school before he even went in and he hurt his hand, we thought it could be broken it was so ugly looking. So today we visited the doctor and they said that it is just really bruised and sprained. Thankfully no broken bones!
As of right now everyone in our house is finally healthy! I am hoping this will stay that way for quite a while!

Yesterday the kids went trick or treating with Matt and had a blast! Their first time out into our new neighborhood and everyone thought they were adorable and gave them a ton of candy! I got to stay home and hand out candy to all the cute little costumed kids and the occasional teenager who didn't put much effort into a costume!

I think that's about it for now. So I leave you with some Halloween photos :)


Lily's pumpkin


Alex's pumpkin

Ben's pumpkin

Alex carving his pumpkin :)

Ben carving his pumpkin, he really didn't get into it much, he didn't like touching pumpkin guts at all!

Lily loved carving hers! two arms deep, lol

my little parrot and Warrior :)

my warrior

my little Rapunzel with an attitude!

All 3 ready to go trick or treating with daddy!

he loved that I put candles in the pumpkins and lit them!

That's all the cuteness I have for now :) Until the next one!

April