We invited about 25 friends and neighbors over to celebrate Cinco de Mayo on Sunday. Luckily, it was perfect weather, 75 and sunny, so we utilized the backyard to its full extent. With cooking for all these people and dealing with Parker's very messed up nap schedule that day, I did not take one picture or video. We had sombreros and little mustaches for people to wear. I also bought some Mardi Gras-esque beads with chili peppers on them, but Parker wore every single one of them the whole night. It was like a mini-Mexican Mister T.
We had some excitement later that night as well, with Parker's first (fingers crossed for only!) trip to the ER. We had a couple friends getting ready to leave around 8:30 and I was holding both Parker's hands and dancing/twirling her around. It was past her bedtime so she was a little fussy, but loved the dancing. We put her to bed and two hours later she woke up very upset. I could not calm her down and thought she was holding her arm funny. After some time spent trying to determine if something was really wrong or if she was just tired, we finally took the trip to the ER. We got right in and the triage nurse immediately said, it's probably Nursemaid's Elbow, basically a dislocated elbow. They put us in a room and 5 minutes later the doctor came in and popped it back in place. Parker had pretty much stopped crying as soon as we got in the car and was very calm the whole time at the hospital (except when the doctor was messing with her arm). Immediately after the fix, she was giving Daddy high-fives with that arm, instant pain relief. Parker could be more prone to this condition or it could never happen again, time will tell.
P.S. we found out yesterday that the ER doctor was the Mom of one of Parker's classmates!
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