Those of you who have been following my blog, might remember some previous episodes of this post. Most notably, the broken wrist saga, and the broken foot episode (on the day before school started, no less!).

Well, now we have a new story to tell, the one about the broken thumb. As I've mentioned, this is my third son. Our two older boys have never broke a bone in their lives, at least not to date. Yet, this one has actually broken 2 bones in less than three months. Or 5 bones depending on how you count it (he broke 4 different bones in his foot last time). For a while, I was kind of freaked out about it - in fact, I spent a whole week telling him it was just sprained because I was in denial about it being broken. The Instacare doc tried to talk me into thinking he had some kind of brittle bone disease. Fortunately, the ortho guy said no way, which was a big relief! He's just clumsy, or unlucky, take your pick.

You know how they have different colored casts now? Well, turns out they had one in a camo pattern. Well Blake just loves anything camo, so as soon as he saw that, he was all over it, but they had already done his foot cast in red. He kept saying that the "next" time he broke a bone, he wanted the camo cast, even though they told him it was a discontinued pattern. (I told him there wasn't going to BE a next time, but obviously, that tactic didn't work!)

Sure enough, when the doctor told him he had to have a cast, the first thing he asked was if he could have the camo pattern. They told him it was discontinued, but you know what that little stinker did? He waited until they were out of the room, then he climbed under the exam table and dug through the whole box of casting materials until he found the ONE roll they had left of the camo pattern. It was the wrong size for a thumb cast, but somehow they made it work for him.

That kid is just something else, isn't he? He definitely knows how to get what he wants - bet he got that from his Mama!







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