Poor Benjamin!

Wednesday late in the afternoon I heard a horrible scream from the backyard. Within a minute or two Amber's friend, Emily, came into the room carrying Ben. He had been jumping on the trampoline with Emily and Marin and somehow came down and badly twisted his ankle. Within a matter of minutes it looked like there was an egg growing out of the side of his ankle bone. We iced it, gave him Motrin and wrapped it. The next morning he still couldn't put any kind of weight on it, so after I took the kids to school, we went to the doctor's office. He eventually got xrays which showed that there were not any breaks- it's just badly sprained. I've been carrying him everywhere- no small task, as he weighs a lot and I'm 29 weeks pregnant! He had to skip gymnastics Thursday morning and school on Friday since he couldn't put weight on it.

The good news- although it is turning all different colors now, he did finally start walking on it yesterday during Justin's football game (they are 3-0). Benjamin has 2 friends- little brothers of boys on the team- and the 3 of them play together all the time at practices and games. The other two were running around yesterday and by the 4th quarter he couldn't take it anymore, so he got up and started walking on it. It is still really sore this morning and swollen, but he is limping around and doing much better. We've now had the tramp for 2 years and this is the first "go to the doctor" injury, so that's not too bad I guess!