I'm finally able to write about...

our family's first experience with a broken arm.
Yup. Delaney broke her arm a week ago today while on a bouncy slide at a nearby children's facility. We saw her feet stick and then she tumbled twice. Zap and Dash were maybe five feet behind her on the slide, and I was just a second or so away from her once she fell. She never fell off the slide. Zap yelled at me that she broke her arm and I scooped her up. Zap got Dash in the car while I carried Delaney and asked for an ice pack (that never came. I ended up using an ice pack our friends had on hand).
We rushed to the Emergency Room and were worked through triage pretty quickly. Joyce and Jerry met us at the hospital to help us out and they eventually brought Dash home and put him to bed. We got Delaney some pain medicine and then some x-rays.
It's actually upside down, but you can see the bowing and if you look closely you can see the break.
We got an IV put in (on the fourth try, mind you) and then the doctors and nurses went to work doing conscious sedation on Delaney. They had to put the elbow back in place, correct the break, and set the bone. We came home with her in a plaster cast and a sling.
During the entire hospital experience, Delaney was incredibly brave. The hardest thing for her was the IV sticks but just a few minutes later, she was giving us an IV. She kept saying "Laney says all done. Laney want home". I just wanted to take the IV for her.

We had our visit with the orthopedic specialist a few days later and they placed her into a long arm cast.
This cast has been easier to work around and she hasn't needed the sling, which is nice. We've since had it signed by a lot of our friends and family. We got some stickers in the mail from Delaney's godmother, Brenna. When we put one of the Piglet stickers on tonight (it had sparkles, Delaney pointed out to me), Delaney said "its flablos" (fabulous), which I'm sure means that she loves it.
Again, she's pretty amazing and resilient. Since the long arm cast gives her the use of her fingers she's a little more able to do things for herself.

From here, we have another orthopedic visit on Friday to check and see how she's doing. We are expecting about six weeks of cast wear and we will probably have another cast placed since if it grows loose she will likely wiggle out of it.

I'm feeling better; less anxious about the whole deal. It was quite an experience.