the infamous cast

The cast is off!!! We went into Cactus Pediatric Orthopedics today and Dr. Hrasky cleared him to get it off after looking at the x-rays they did today. Xander was laughing as they sawed the cast off, he said it was ticklish. When they went to pull the 3 pins out of his arm... he was SO BRAVE! He didn't cry or even make a noise. He looked at them doing it until he realized he didn't like how it felt and just looked at me. I reassured him how brave he was and he was doing a great job. He did AWESOME! After they were out, the nurse turned to me and asked if I wanted to keep the pins. Xander replied with a quick, "no". He thought they wanted me to keep them to put them back in later... LOL! When I explained that wasn't so, he was like, cool, can I hold them? After we walked out, the kids were getting a drink, and I overheard the nurses telling each other how good Xander did while they took out the pins, and how he did better than most adults they know. GOOD JOB XANDER! You should be able to swim on Saturday! (he has an ace bandage like wrapping on his arm that has to be there till Friday evening) After that, it's 4 weeks of babying the arm... no running, jumping, playgrounds...etc. Basically he can't be a boy for a month... poor guy!