Good News x2!

1) Violet had her 6 month post-spica-cast x-ray on Wednesday morning. It came out GREAT!! Her little ball and socket are in place and starting to form pretty normally. Her socket previously was very shallow (why her hip kept dislocating) and it is starting to widen and deepen. YAY!!! We were SO happy to hear that! Now we don't have to go back for a YEAR! So apparently Christmastime will always bring an x-ray too. She'll need yearly x-rays for the next few years, if not more. Lucky us!

The best part was that she was a ROCK STAR through the whole thing! She didn't make a peep during her x-ray (she has to lay down under this huge machine with her legs at weird angles - usually lots and lots of tears) AND she's totally in love with our doctor. She wanted him to HOLD her! It was really funny.

It is crazy that she's been cast-free for 6 months. I'm so happy to have our regular old kid back. She's just now started climbing (on EVERYTHING!) and running which is so much fun to watch. You'd never know that she had hip issues now!

2) Violet is POTTY TRAINING HERSELF!!

Which is good because I have no earthy idea how to potty train a kid. She's slightly unorthadox about the whole thing (of course)... see she has this little pal from playgroup named Bryce. For some reason she has adopted that name for all things potty... to the potty itself, when she goes, etc. (sorry Lisa! I have no idea why!). So when we hear "Bryce! Bryce!" we know she has to go. In the last 3 day she has gone both #1 and #2 on the potty all by herself!!! Of course this comes with reading "Harry the Dirty Dog" about 37,482 times first, but indeed she does have to go! In fact just a second ago she ran in there, did her thing, and we were out in five minutes! She just looks like such a big KID sitting on that potty. Geesh, where does the time go?

We head to sunny Florida tomorrow and you can bet her potty chair is coming with us! Hopefully we won't hear the calls of "Bryce! Bryce!" in the middle of the plane ride. I'm not sure what we'll do!

If you found this blog searching for info on spica casts,
please visit this wonderful and incredibly helpful forum:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hipbaby/
Also, please take a look at my Spica Cast Survival Guide, which you can download here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hipbaby/files/
It's the first thing on the list.
Sending lots of good hip healing vibes your way!!