Sliding By

Things are progressing quite well! We gave Wesley some ibuprofen the day we came home from the hospital, just in case. He has never acted like he felt any pain so we have never given him anything since the first dose. For a day or so he would fuss to get down and play and then fuss because he couldn't crawl. It didn't take him long to figure it out. Now he slides along the floor. You can see the wear mark on the bottom of his cast. We thought of several excuses* to tell strangers when they asked what happened (thanks Keri for tipping us off to be prepared). Shark attack in Mexico, reaching into the garbage disposal, fixing the lawn mower. I have used the first two. By far the best is to tell them the truth.

Stranger: Oh what a cute little a boy and what a big cast! What happened?!
Me: He got his thumb cut off.
Stranger: (quite shocked) Whoa. How?!
Me: A scalpel I guess. Whatever it is that surgeons use.
Stranger: (more shock and great confusion)... um... what?
Me: (laughing to myself at the hilarious situation of putting some stranger in an awkward position. I know... so funny.) He was born with two thumbs and they removed one.
Stranger: (why did I ever open my mouth) Oh that's nice.

I don't have a great video of him doing his slide. This was after the first day or two and the only reason he is fussy is because he wanted the camera (which is why it is so hard to get a good video clip of the slide). The clip below is low resolution on purpose so it would actually upload but you'll get the idea.


Jason: Here are a few pics for you (Jay, I thought you might want to see a photo of Luke driving his tractor, the little farmer boy who cultivated your front yard up in Logan during the weddings):

*Some of you are asking yourselves how Vic and I could possibly be related. : )