The Climber

For a long time I've been meaning to do a post on how much of a climber our Peanut is. I spend a lot of my time taking her down from things. Here are some pictures I've taken in the past. Note that a lot of these were taken in one day.
On the bunkbed:Playing in the toy room:On the kitchen counter (this particular counter she is on several times a day and I have multiple pictures, but will just post this one): On the pool table: On the bathroom counter - and to make matters worse, got into the vasaline: On the kitchen table:On the phone counter:First, I will have you know that I do tell her "no" when she does this. She has also gotten spankins for not listening, but it just doesn't seem to matter to her. I've moved the chairs from the counter and she pushes them back herself. When there's a will, there's a way. And let me tell you, she has a strong will.

Well, it would be the bathroom counter that would finally do her in. On Saturday night she was trying to get the tissues and lost her balance. The hubby took her in Sunday morning to the walk in clinic, got a temporary cast and came home. Monday the orthopedic surgeon from SCity was at our local hospital so I took her in at 9am to get it set and get a permanent cast. Ater more xrays I was told she broke it by the elbow and would need surgery and 3 pins. She was in surgery from 12:30 until 1:45. She was in recovery until 2:30 and then came up to the room. If any of you have had your kids under anesthesia, you know what they are like coming out of it. She cried and fought with me until 4:00 when she finally threw up, got more pain meds and fell asleep. I let her sleep and she woke up around 6pm. She was a little crabby, but was able to pull off some of those classic Peanut smiles. We left for home about 7pm.

Now that it's been a couple of days, she's starting to adjust to being one-handed and amazingly it slows her down very little. It's the nights that are bad. She doesn't sleep even though she's had pain meds. I don't know if she just has trouble getting comfortable, or what, but I'm running on very little sleep over here. If I'm not up with her, I'm up with K. So forgive me if you see me and I stare thru you like a zombie. But, we're taking it one day at a time. We are so thankful that God has provided knowlegable doctors to fix this and pray that it heals correctly without any lasting problems. So, without further adoo, here is the new Peanut: