Caden's Cast

Caden broke his arm on Labor Day and currently sports a bright pink cast to show for it. If you ask him what happened to his arm, he'll get a pained expression on his face and tell you, "It broke!" If you then ask him how it happened he'll say, "I fell off ladder." It's true, Jake was in the backyard trimming high branches and while he was hauling his latest batch off to the pile Caden climbed up the ladder and promptly fell off the third rung.

Having a little one in a cast is quite the conversation piece. Everyone asks about it and expresses sympathy (especially when he arranges his sweet face into that pained expression) and then has some sort of child-with-a-broken-bone story of their own to share. They are all surprised and amazed when I tell them that he's our fourth boy but yet our first cast.

He gets it off on Monday, it will have been only 3 weeks total in a splint/sling and cast. He looks forward to having his right arm back and Jake and I look forward to giving him regular baths again. Lucas doesn't because he's been getting special bubble baths in the meantime, but you know what they say about all good things.  I guess that applies to bad things too, because in just a few days this broken bone should be coming to an end.