This whole leg thing has been a nightmare from start to finish. Unfortunately it has all been completely my fault. I broke the baby. I held her down so she could get x-rays. I confined her while she was getting her cast. And, I had the brilliant idea to take the cast off ourselves in order to spare her from the loud, scary saw. For the love of God, don't do this at home!!!
I started by trying to soften the cast off in the tub. I thought it was plaster, but after I had already gotten her foot sopping wet, I figured out it was fiberglass, which does not soften in water. Sophie, who normally loves baths, fought me on getting in the water. Apparently a 2yo is smarter than I am or at least has better instincts. So, after I got the foot wet, and it had started to prune, I took her out of the tub and slowly started chipping away at the cast with nail clippers. I wanted to use something stronger, but she was wiggling and screaming every time I even looked at her cast, so I had to use the safest implement I could find. I knew I was going to need something mega strong, though, so I had Wesley get tin snips from Lowe's. Everything went smoothly until we got to the top of the foot where it connects to the leg. Apparently the guy who was frantically wrapping her foot and trying to get the screaming baby out of there ASAP neglected to put enough padding in this area. So, when Wesley got to this point, the cast was stuck to her foot. Sophie had been complaining about her cast since she got it on, and she had pointed to this area, so I'm pretty sure that's what the problem was. Anyway, Wesley was unable to pop the cast off and ended up having to basically force her foot out of it. Of course by this time, we were all in tears and realized this was a gigantic mistake, and we should have just let them use the saw, which would have scared the bejeezus out of her, but would have only lasted a few minutes instead of the hours it took us to do it.
Slowly Sophie began using her foot again, and she was walking a little by Saturday. She's now walking constantly, with a limp mind you, but she's walking. And this injury isn't stopping her as you can see from the photos below. We went to our little cousin's birthday party, which was at a Jump House. Sophie ended up climbing the tallest slide they had, using the inflatable rock climbing wall. She did this 3 times. They also had a zip line which was several feet up in the air, so my daredevil Vic made a beeline for it. She had done it twice before Trevor felt it was safe enough for him. He looked terrified both times, but I think he felt like he had to do it since his little sister did.
After the party, we went to our cousins' farm, where they have horses, dogs, a trampoline, golf cart, etc. It was basically their dream come true. In fact they all want to go back and have a camping weekend there. I'm an indoor girl, so I think Wesley's cousin and I will have a girl's night in while the kids and husbands become one with nature.
***I fought with my camera the entire time in the jump house. It hated the lighting apparently, because no setting would work.
See the rock climbing wall in the middle? That's what Sophie climbed up not once, not twice, but 3 times. The next pic is her coming down behind Vic.
Here's Caylin with her present that was hand picked by Wesley. It's a paintball gun. He also supplied her with extra carbon cartridges and 500 yellow paint balls. I can't wait to see what Dana gets ours for Christmas. 
Here's my little daredevil at the end of her first trip on the zip line.
