About a month ago, we took a trip to the zoo. We were walking and hubby was holding 18 month olds hand. She tripped and she started screaming and holding her arm. We were just going to find the emergency center at the zoo when she just stopped crying and started using her arm again just fine. So we figured she was o.k. About two weeks later I helped her get down from a chair and the same thing happened but she stopped crying again after 5 mins. So me and Hubby decided maybe it was just a coincidence, but if it happened again we were definatly going to take her to the doctor.

Well, sunday evening we were over at hubby's parents house.  I changed 18 month olds diaper and helped her get up by holding her arms. She immediatly started screaming and would not let anybody touch her arm. But this time she did not stop. So we immediatly took her to the emergency room. They  took her temp, blood pressure, did x-rays ect but they could not find anything wrong. Meanwhile my poor baby was in SO much pain it was horrible  After about   1 1/2 hrs the doctor came in and he said that he thought she had Nursemaids Elbow. He did the method to get the elbow back in the socket  She screamed terribly for a second and then this wash of relief came over her face and she immediatly wanted to get down and play.

  He told us that, being so young, her bones are not fused yet and that her muscles are not strong enough to hold the joints together. So we are NOT going to be holding her arms at all. I am so scared to hurt her, I don't even want to take her shirt off because I am afraid that I am going to hurt her. I just feel so bad that that happened to her. But at least we know now what was wrong and how to try and prevent it. The doctor did say it could happen again even while she is playing or falls or something and just to take her back in and they will pop it back  in.   I can feel the gray hairs popping out of my head.

  The doctors there were very nice and only gave me a slightly hard time about not immunizing my children.   While I was there I remembered how much I dislike hospitals (and no I never had a bad experience). I know hospitals can be very good (like they were for my baby on Sunday) But they just give me a bad feeling when I am there. That is one of the many reasons why I have my babies at home. I don't think I would ever be able to relax in a hospital. But o.k that is going off topic

  I have to get going, I am hoping to try and get the rest of my autumn decorations up today. I have to get my potatoe soup cooking in the slow cooker and I have to go do homeschool with the children.

I wanted to share some pics of my house decorated for fall. But yesterday we went to see if I our camara was fixable and they said they did not know what was wrong with it and they would have to send it out. They said it would cost $150.00 just to send it out, come on, it is not even worth that much. So we have to get a new one but I am not sure when we are going to be able to do that.