Crazy Daddy

On a sunny Saturday afternoon, daddy was having fun with his buddies and did a great front flip off the top rail of a double decker pontoon boat.  As usual, he stuck the landing.  He has done flips many times in his life (on the ground, off ski jumps, off random docks into snow, off big boulders onto the ground, off cliffs into water...), but this time, the landing wasn't so soft.  The water just wasn't deep enough to slow him down and protect his ankle.  At least he'll have one heck of a story to tell Ryder how we celebrated the first birthday of our first born kiddo.

Is this a hotel or a hospital?! We spent Friday night at the new Maple Grove Hospital, but since it was a bad fracture, we had to take an ambulance on Sunday to the North Memorial Hospital in Robbinsdale where they have special equipment to fix daddy up.

Shawn was in good spirits at check-in joking with the nursing staff.  I bet they didn't expect a patient in such pain to brighten their day.  Ryder helped keep daddy's mind off the pain, too. 

Waiting for the beeper to go off saying we can see Shawn after his surgery.

Exactly one year ago today, Ryder was born at this very hospital - just one floor up from where Shawn is staying.  Happy 1st Birthday Ryder!!

So good at waiting!

While we were in the waiting room, I was finally able to catch a photo of Ryder standing! See the video below - these were his longest moments standing so far!!

Shawn now has an external fixator to keep things in place until his leg is strong enough for the second surgery.  It's kind of scary looking, but they will take it off in 7-10 days :) 

And to leave things on a bright note, here's a video of Ryder logging his longest stance yet!! (excuse my super excited mommy voice!)