During the grandparents visit Payton decided to jump off of the couch which turned into a trip to the doctor and a new fancy boot to wear for a couple of weeks. Janaan and I were in the family room folding laundry and Payton was goofing around and jumped off the couch. I scolded her and told her not to do it again, that we don't jump off of the furniture and that she would get hurt. In true 2 year old fashion she completely ignored me and did again. I watched it and saw her land stiff legged and knew it wasn't good. She started crying and after an "I told you so" I realized she was actually hurt. She wouldn't stand on it at first but then calmed down and stopped crying, but limped for the next couple of days. After consulting Dr. Sarah and having her watch Payton walk we decided it was best to take her in and get an x-ray as Sarah thought she may have gotten a fracture.
She ended up with a small buckle fracture on her fibula. Two weeks and a boot and now she is running like crazy again. She handled the boot pretty well, it didn't slow her down much and it really helped that we could take it off for baths, sleeping, and swim lessons. I hope this was not the first of many injury visit trips in the Harms house!
The (not so) funny thing was Sarah injured herself just days later playing soccer and ended up with an ankle sprain and fracture earning herself a boot as well. Payton thought it was pretty cool that they had matching boots and we all got a good laugh out of it!
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