Rolling Like Crazy

So, being the terrible Momma that I am, I took Jack to the park last week and I put him on my lap to go down the slide thinking it would be a fun experience for him. We all did that on our parents laps! So Jack's foot, in his nice, thick sole, tennis shoes, fell between my legs and stopped both of us from moving any farther down the slide. His poor ankle! He immediately started crying, and I consoled him to stop after only about 1 minute. I felt his joints on both legs up and down and he didn't seem to start crying at my touch so I thought all was ok.

Well, when I went to put him down at home to stand up and walk with my fingers, he wouldn't put his right leg down at all. Wouldn't even touch it to the ground! UH! I was so upset about it, he was so good at walking and here I have ruined it! There was no sewlling or bruising anywhere so we waited it out before we went to get x-rays (apparently x-rays don't show too much on baby bones, and their bones are still so pliable at this age that it's very unlikely he would have broken it). Praise God, after 3 days, we definitely saw improvement. He hasn't really been in any pain unless I knock it (by accident!) and he'll whimper a little. So it's been a week and he still won't put 100% weight on it but he is grabbing his toes, moving his ankle all around and kicking his legs with no problem. So I guess we just have to give it a little more time. Sprains usually take a while to heal.

Anyway, so with no walking which was 98% of our daily awake time activities... my back is killing me from carrying this heavy 9month old around everywhere and he is getting a TON more floor time than he has had in a while. So maybe we'll get him to crawl with all this floor time. Who knows! So here is my super hyper, energetic roller... poor kid gets stuck at one side of the room after like 60 seconds and than stuck at the other side of the room or on top of a toy after like 30 seconds! UH!