February

 February is usually my favorite month, mostly because it's my birthday and who doesn't like that???

It started out great!  I was totally spoiled by my kids, hubby and friends

 

 I had brownies for my "cake", after completing the Whole30 in January a dessert never tasted so good!

 The following day, these 2 had their well child check-ups and they went perfect, 2 happy and healthy boys.

 But the following day our month went downhill, fast.

Bryden fell in our basement and broke his arm

 Serioulsy, there shouldn't be an extra "wrist" in the middle of his arm

 But he did fantastic, they let the ER doctors splint it with absolutely zero issues and only having taken motrin

 The next day was the super bowl, poor Bryden couldn't do much of anything with his friends who came over.

First thing Monday morning we had an appointment with the orthopedic surgeon and I was expecting to hear that they would set his arm right then with minimal problems, but instead he told us we would have surgery the following morning.  I was extremely upset, I didn't want Bryden to be put under.

But we showed up and some of the best doctors and nurses!  The talked and joked with him, he smiled the entire time.  When they were ready they gave him a little drink to make him silly, they said it would help him not be scared when they got back to the OR and we weren't there.  After about 20 minutes they took him back, with a big grin on his face.

 They came and got us about 20 minutes later and said he'd done great and was just sleeping still but we could come sit with him.  He had a hard time waking up, took about 45 minutes, and I was a mess.  They explained that it could be awhile because the actual surgery was so short that even on the lowest doses of meds his body still had to run through it for him to wake up.  And a nurse never left his side, continually checked all his vitals even though he was hooked up to lots of machines watching them too.  Finally we got him to wake up, and I'm sure you'd never guess this knowing him, but he woke up with a giant smile:)  He was a little upset about the IV in his arm, since he had went to the back without one but they took it out almost right away and he was perfect. 

By the time the kids got home from school, you'd never know anything had happened.

He came home to a giant dino with a  broken arm too:)

 And the next day this basket of cookies arrived from his cousins!

 He has done so great with it all!