She's Got Legs and She Know's How To Use Them!

For those of you wondering about the title of this post, yep I love ZZ Top. But, this is even better, Sonya's legs have been uncasted! Woo Hooooooo!

She was completely terrified of the cast saw, and who wouldn't be? That thing looks like it could take your limb off as well as the cast in one swoop. As soon as the saw stopped she started to calm down and they brought over a nice warm basin of water full of suds, a washcloth and a towel to clean her legs off. The inside of the cast was worse than I could have ever imagined. Despite my best efforts to keep the inside of it as clean as possible after 5 double nasty diaper blow outs, it was horrible enough to make one OCD about bathing! Yep, that bad! So I gave Sonya's legs a good ol' scrub down for about 20 minutes and then later when we got home another scrub down, this time with Johnson and Johnson's Bedtime Bath and lotion for the nice scent it offers! Here she is checking out her newly unveiled legs!

Her foot looks unusually large in this photo due to the angle...

When we got home, Sonya spotted her sister's lolly pop sitting on the table and since Akela was outside playing with her friend I figured Sonya could have a taste since she was such a brave girl at the hospital yet again!

I am so impressed with how much Sonya is moving her legs around! As soon as her cast was removed at the hospital she started lifting her right leg (the one that wasn't broken) up and put her toes in her mouth! Her left leg has been moving too a little. I think she is a bit intimidated about moving it around, but she is slowly getting there.

I love her big happy smile in this photo!

The lolly pop was seriously the size of Sonya's head!


Just look at those gams! Her left leg, the one that broke, is laying straight and I am impressed with the straightness of it! I forgot to ask about how many degrees of bowing and angulation it is now at (it definitely looks better than the 90 degrees it was at), they did do x-rays after the uncasting, but she does have a follow up appointment in just 3 more weeks to see how things are looking. Her right leg, the one bent in the photo, is a little worrisome for me right now. The femur looks even more bowed now in comparison to her left and is at increased risk of fracture at this point, but so is her right since it is still on the mend. I just hope that she goes break free for awhile and that she takes it easy when it comes to getting back on her feet!

The baby booties in the photo used to be Zoe's! Zoe wore them when she was about 2 months old and Akela also got to wear them around that age too! Sonya is a size 2 shoe, she has such tiny feet! The smallest size that Stride Rite carries in a walking shoe is a size 3 and they swim on Sonya's feet! We think we may have to special order her shoes when she is ready to get back up on her feet again, which her doctors suspect might be about a month or two from now. After Sonya had broke her arm and had her cast removed she avoided using it until she had no choice when she broke her leg and was placed in a spica cast 2 and a half months later.

Being oh so cute!


I can't believe she is already on her belly and moving about! She has been using her leg that didn't break more and even gets it to bend for crawling but her leg on the mend still drags behind. I put her to bed on her back last night and I found her on her belly this morning, so she knows how to roll herself over!

Reading her Spongebob book with daddy!

I know that she is a Little Person, but WOW! Now that her cast is off she really feels and looks so little! She weighs practically nothing when I pick her up now and I have to get used to holding her without her spica cast!

Tomorrow we go back to her pediatricians office to get an accurate weight and height measurement since she was still in her spica cast at her 18 month well checkup. I don't think she has grown at all again. She has been measuring the same for the past 4 well checkups.

Well, that's all for now! I'll have another update before we head to the beach for vacation and then another one when we get back! Have a great week everyone!