Poor Little Mia and Silly Little Lennon

I finally listened to my sweetie pie girl and took her to the podiatrist about her recurring foot pain. One look at her foot and the doctor recognized significant swelling and toughness. The hypothesis is that she jumped off of something, perhaps a balance beam at gymnastics, and landed badly and injured herself. Then since we didn't know she was injured we didn't do anything about it and it healed, but only sort of. So now, 6 or 7 months later she's been running and playing with her hurting foot and it's been getting more and more irritated.

Long story short, our little girlie is now wearing a removable cast and has to wear it all day for a week and then come back in to see if there is improvement. If there hasn't been significant enough improvement then the doc will take x-rays to see if there is something going on with the bones or growth or something more serious than soft tissue. Mia was excited at first about wearing the cast, until she walked around in it for a few minutes and realized that it wasn't so much fun to walk in. I felt so bad about not listening to her sooner that I took her straight to Payless to get her a pair of shoes that had a little height to them to balance out her cast which is a couple of inches high off the ground.

Then, as we had planned, we went straight to the carnival that our poor kids have been promised three times already and each time something happened that made it impossible for us to go. We all had a blast at the carnival and the kids were pooped afterwards. Mia fell right to sleep, but we're still struggling to get Lennon to sleep. Sometimes when he stays up way past his bedtime he gets so tired or something that he really has a hard time falling asleep. Hopefully he nods off soon cause we're both tired... and tired of spending an hour to get him to sleep.

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A couple of hilarious things Lennon has said lately:

As we were leaving the zoo yesterday he wanted to pee, but since I had already taken him to pee once at the zoo and it's not my favorite thing to do, going in public restrooms, I told him to wait until we got home as we live about two minutes from the zoo. When I was strapping him in his seat I just reminded him to hold it in until we got home so he didn't have an accident.

His reply: "I will. I sucked it back up. Because my penis is a vacuum cleaner."

I was swinging him on the swing set this morning. He likes to lay across the swing on his tummy and have me twist the swing around and then let it unwind. Today as he was unwinding he said: "Mommy! I'm spinning around and the ground is spinning around too. THE WHOLE ENTIRE EARTH IS SPINNING AROUND!!"