Katelyn's red cast!

Stairs stairs how I hate the stairs!   On December 7th Katelyn was happily playing and then suddenly she was gone.  I founder her all the way in the basement, her new game is to slide down the stairs on her tummy as fast as she can.  So I went down to get her and she started climbing up to meet me, and as I bent down to pick her up she laughed and slid back down to the bottom.  She was playing a little game, catch me if you can.  On her next time up the stairs she stopped two or three stairs up and balanced on her knees.  As I went to grab her, her large head caused her to topple over backwards down the stairs.  What a fun thing to see play out in slow motion as I tried to get to her, but failed! She cried and cried and would not stop!  Of course Doug was not at home and it was about 7 pm.  Both he and Blake were at Karate.  Doug finally came home and we decided to see how she was in the morning.  We gave her a dose of ibuprofen and put her to bed.  I knew she was still hurting when she woke up at midnight crying, so I gave her some Tylenol and put her back to bed.
The next morning she seemed fine and back to normal until she tried to stand up and she collapsed and started to cry.  So off to the Dr. office we went.  The x-ray showed that she had a small fracture in her tibia just below the knee.  My doctor put on a splint and told us to make an apt. with an orthopedist to see if she should have a cast or not.
The next day Doug and I took her in to see the orthopedist and she said because of her age it would be best to put a cast on it.  Normally a splint would be fine, but because she was just learning to walk a cast would be safer for her.  Since it is December and I had already bought her a cute red Christmas dress, we chose to make her cast red.  She only has to have the cast on for four week!  Longest four weeks of my life! 
The first week of the cast I had to sit on the floor and play with her all the time.  If a toy got too far way from her she would cry, because she was scared to move and get it herself.  After the first week things got better and she learned to crawl quite well with the cast on. I am so thankful kids are resilient and heal fast!  Lets hope this ends broken legs in our family.