At first he didn't seem like he was hurt all that badly, so we thought he might have just bruised it or sprained it, but no such luck. He must have landed just the wrong way because it is broken at the wrist. We're not sure if it's both bones or just the bigger one. We'll know more when we take him in to get casted on Tuesday. He has to be splinted until the swelling goes down. We're hoping for something called a "water cast" which is apparently some kind of a fancy plexiglass model, but from what I'm hearing, that just means he'll be able to take normal showers if we're careful about it.

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The real bummer is that he likely won't be able to go swimming. We had a great program set up for him for the summer, but it includes 3 days a week of swimming for several hours a day, plus trips to the skating rink, and other sports activities. Obviously, that won't work now, so we are digging around to try and find an alternative program for at least the first half of the summer. I've got a couple of leads and I hope I can find something that will be really fun for him and safe as well.

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I know he wanted to be in my blog more, but this isn't the way I was hoping to do it. Look at that little face and his little Snoopy sling. It's just sad. And he was having such a good time too. He was just loving that skate park. He's our little daredevil and he just jumped right in there with his little scooter with no fear at all. Out of all our 3 boys, he's been the one most likely to get hurt like this.

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We've actually been remarkably lucky with our boys. This is the first major injury we've had with them, so I can't cry too much about it. I did something remarkably similar when I was little. I broke my arm at almost the same week of the year and had to go through about half the summer with a heavy, nasty plaster cast on my arm. So I can really sympathize with my little guy.