Tiny Tim

A picture would do no justice, you have to see him in motion.  Grant has been limping around for a few days.  I felt like it was getting a little worse so I thought I'd best call the doc.  You know it was this time last year when Elizabeth fell down the stairs Daddy knocked her down ;) and she broke her collar bone and it was week before I took her to the doctor!  For those who don't know that story...Elizabeth was walking down the stairs and stopped to look at the xmas tree.  Brandon was walking behind her, carrying Grant, still a wee baby and didn't see her stop.  She got knocked down the last few steps, but she hit just right to fracture her collar bone.  Brandon felt horrible. Elizabeth will still say when somebody is walking behind her on a flight of stairs, "don't knock me down like daddy did!" We joke about it now, but I still feel guilty about not taking her to the doctor sooner, so in effort not to have repeat performance I ended up taking him in.  It went pretty much how I thought it would go, "he can still bear weight, his activity level is the same, he doesn't seem to be in any discomfort, most of the time we never know what happens, it would be a lot of radiation to expose him to for an exploratory full leg x-ray....keep an eye on it over the weekend and go to the ER if anything changes." 

Well nothing has changed, he is just still a little gimpy and thus has earned the nick name of Tiny Tim.  I am sorry that he is limping because my guess is it does hurt.  I believe Grant has a high tolerance for pain.  However, he and Elizabeth were chasing each other around the house tonight, so I guess he is managing!  I do have to smile to myself when I call him Tiny Tim and Elizabeth giggles too - "C'mon Tiny Tim, let's go!" and he gets that Grant grin on his face and hobbles on over to you.