Nursemaid Elbow and a visit from the Tooth Fairy

Huh? What is Nursemaid Elbow you ask? And what does it have to do with the Tooth Fairy? Nothing other than they both happened to occur on the same day...yet another crazy day in the Hill household. To make a long story short, Niclas and Sophia were playing yesterday and somehow Sophia fell down and hurt her arm. I wasn't there but it sounded like she was in a lot of pain. Enough pain to cause Linda to call the doctor's office who feared she might have broken it (again). So Linda packed up the kids, took Niclas to a friends house and took Sophia in to get an X-Ray. On the way to the X-Ray clinic, she was much better. The pain had gone away. The technician at the clinic suspected Nursemaid Elbow which was confirmed by the doctor who Linda went to see next. Sounds like it's pretty common and really just has to do with the muscles around the elbow not being strong enough yet so the elbow can dislocate easily (no wonder she was in a lot of pain). Our speculation is that when Linda was putting her into the carseat to go get an x-ray, the elbow set back to how it should be which is why her pain went away. You can find more about it here. The doctor said it could happen again so we'll just need to be prepared for that.

As it turns out, while at his friends house, Niclas lost his first tooth. It's been loose for a while and yesterday it finally came out. The new tooth is already coming in so this is just the start. The Tooth Fairy came last night and left Niclas a shiny $1 coin under his pillow. The price of teeth has gone up a lot since the last time the Tooth Fairy visited me. I guess the Tooth Fairy understands inflation too.