Freedom

Cason had been counting down the days until he could get his cast off.  On Friday morning he said "MOM!  It's zero days!"  :)

We spent our morning doing our "school" work, 

and then they played with Neely a while.  They've recently been playing a game where they get "trapped" somewhere, which usually means they just lay over the arm of the couch or something, pretending they can't escape.  They yell "SUPERWOMAN!  SUPERWOMAN!  HELP!"  Neely runs up, wearing her cape, and turns around so they can grab on to the cape.  Then she walks away with them holding on, and brings them to safety.

 

I like that last picture, she got distracted and started watching tv mid-"rescue".  Ha.

Then we spent some time out front, using chalk to mark how far we could each jump and then measuring and marking how far we'd be able to jump on the moon.  They were all amazed and had fun imagining themselves on the moon.  Neely didn't really know what we were so excited about, but she had fun jumping and watching me mark her landings. 

Then Jess came home and picked us up.  Cason was so excited for his appointment.  Jess went in with him this time while the girls and I waited in the car.  They weren't in there for very long.  I guess they took the cast off right away, and Caso wore headphones since the saw is pretty loud.  

Then they x-rayed him again, and the doctor said everything looked good.  

He told Jess Cason might be nervous to walk on it for a while, it can even take months for some kids.  Sure enough, Cason did just as he described, cocking his leg out to the side, and stepping very softly on it.  It sort of surprised me, with the way he'd been running that last week.  I expected him to be nervous without the cast, of course, but I didn't realize the extent of it I guess.  I think it's a little sore too.  He's doing really well though. 

I was SOOO happy to get him home and scrub that leg clean.  It was actually not bad, and it was never stinky like people say to expect when a kid's in a cast.  In fact, Paige's was never stinky either.  I don't know why.  But his skin was really dry and flaky and I was so glad to scrub it and lotion him up after.  He was just really happy to take a normal bath again, without his leg propped up and wrapped in towels. 

THEN we were both excited for him to be able to wear his regular pajama pants again, that were too skinny to fit over his cast before.