This past weekend was our annual Fabulous Fall Fun day with our friends. Since I love fall, I have historically planned a fun get together with our friends and their kids. This year we tried out Pumpkin Town. However, before this event even started we had a special outting to the Pediatric Urgent Care. You see I spent all day Friday baking and cooking for the big day. Friday evening we skipped Tim's game because there was a chance of rain. Rain with two kids and all the stuff you drag around for two kids doesn't sound fun in a down pour. Well no rain happened so I took the girls outside to play. Trying to be that fun mom I swung Addison around and around in a circle by her arms. She giggled and laughed, loving every second until we heard a "pop" "ouch mom". Oops okay we will stop that. We went on about our business and Addy kept favoring her arm telling me it hurt. I figured she was being a bit dramatic and it would be fine in the morning. In the middle of the night she woke up and she still acted like it hurt and wouldn't bend it without almost crying. Great, I have now officially hurt my child big time. So 3 am I am googling and feeling like a horrible mom. Turns out little kids have loose joints and you aren't supposed to spin them around by their arms or ligaments can pop into these joints. So the next morning (I am working on 3 hours of sleep here) Tim is off to football practice, and I am off with the kids to drop off the food at our friends house and off to the urgent care. Of course we waited and waited. Finally the doctor came and tried to pop the ligament back all while little miss is screaming ouch, ouch! The doctor never felt or heard a pop back into place, so "let's just get an x-ray to make sure nothing is broken". Cue mom feeling really horrible and near tears. No breaks, so she just needs to wear this sling and it will help it slip back into place. So all of this happens before we even start our day of fun.
Up we roll to the pumpkin patch 20 minutes late with our child in a sling. Awesome!!! After a pony ride and playing with friends we noticed she wasn't even using the sling and she seemed to be utilizing her arm. She also said her arm didn't hurt anymore, so I guess the doctor popped it back into place after all.
Anyway back to the patch. There was a lot of activities there for kiddos. Tons of little playhouses for them to explore, bounce houses, slides, a "train" ride, and pony rides. It was sprinkling off and on and extremely windy, so we didn't stay too long. We left the pumpkin patch and headed to the Smith's house for food and OSU football.
That evening also happened to be Aunt Jenny's school carnival. So we dressed up the girls in their Halloween costumes and off we went to Aunt Jenny's school. We made sure we were there for Jenny's time slot of "pie in the face". This, however, tramatized poor Addy. She did not like people throwing pie at her Aunt. Her favorite game was the cake walk.
Since our time at the pumpkin patch was spent doing activities and not really picking out any pumpkins, Sunday after church we stopped by another local church and let Addison pick out a pumpkin. We got a really big one and a little one. Side note: pictures with two kids is HARD!
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A fun time! The cake walk was always my favorite Carnival game!
U. Paul did exactly the same thing to Gillian's arm when she was A's age. Off to Ready Care we went! Why don't they, when you're being wheeled out of the hospital with your wee little newborn, admonish, "Now, don't be swinging this little one around by his/her arms, or we'll see YOU at Ready Care!"
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