Busy, busy, busy!

May is jam packed for us. With Mother's Day, birthday, and anniversary one weekend after the next we have a busy month ahead of us. Looking forward to it though. Mother's Day will be spent in Denver at my mom's house with family. My birthday weekend will be spent in Ft. Collins. We are so excited for this for two reasons. One, in April Chris applied with the Ft. Collins Police Department. He was invited to begin the testing process on May 15th starting with the Physical Fitness Test (which they have requirements for unlike El Paso) and the written test (regular high school altitude test). Two, we get to see some great friends in which it has been to long since we last saw them. Finally, for our anniversary weekend Chris and I are leaving Malachi with Grandma and spending the weekend in Glenwood Springs at a Bed & Breakfast. We are looking forward to it, but I am nervous since it will be the first time I've been away from Malachi for more than a few hours. Chris thinks I'll be just fine, I hope he is right.
So we ask the you would pray for God's guidance and patience for Ft. Collins, if that is where God desires us to be (we hope so very much!) and that we would enjoy our weekend away and that Malachi is great with Grandma. I will update you and let you know how things are going.

With Love,
Cassie

Arm Update

Now he isn't just crying becasue of the saw and the noise. Malachi has been crying like this since we left the waiting room and entered the exam room. Ever since his first visit to see the doctor when he first broke his arm they hurt him pretty bad. Now he doesn't like any of them, especially the nurse in the video. We have a check up the 20th of May to make sure mobility and range of motion is good, but he has been using his arm like he was never in a cast ever since he got it off a little over two weeks ago. Not to worried about it.

First broken bone

It's not as bad as it looks. Chris and Malachi were playing around on the bed like they always do. Chris throwing Malachi up a little and Malachi leading on his back on the bed, a game Malachi loves to play. Well the last time Malachi came down he landed on his arm wrong and broke the little bone in his elbow. It didn't swell up right away so we didn't think it was broken, but after an hour and medicine, Malachi was still crying and wouldn't move his arm. So we called the Doc and they saw him right away. They took x-rays, but his Doctor couldn't see anything that stuck out, so she thought he had what's called "nurse kate's elbow" where the elbow is pulled out of socket. She tried the maneuver to fix it, but only made Malachi hurt more and not want her to touch him again. So she sent the x-rays to a radiologist and he said there was a small fracture in the bone that hides the point of your elbow when you bend and straighten your arm. A common fracture for all ages. Drove across town and waited an hour and a half in the waiting room to see the ped ortho. Then it took the nurse an hour to cast Malachi because he was putting up a fight and did not want another person to touch him or his arm. I definitely got a workout holding him so the lady could cast him. She said it happens all the time and the kids usually bite her, Malachi didn't so he wasn't that bad. He only has to wear it for 3 weeks too. There is little swelling so he is on Ibuprofen to bring it down and help with any pain.


But he is happy as ever. Since he is right handed he is having difficulty eating. He can get a fork in his mouth with food still on it, but dumps the spoon before it gets to his mouth. He is also a little off balance only having one arm to catch himself, he is falling a lot more than usual.

He is also having hard time climbing on things cause he doesn't have both arms to pull himself up, so he pulls his step stool to where ever he wants up. I'm trying to let him figure everything out on his own so he doesn't get use to me doing everything for him, but it's so hard to watch him struggle.

After everything though he is still his normal self, running, playing, chasing the cat, and a happy happy baby. Almost like nothing happened, until he tries to do something he needs both hands for. It's only been a day in a half, I'm sure he'll get the hang of it soon. Otherwise we are all doing well, Happy Resurrection/Easter weekend everyone!