It really threw us for a loop when our super active little Cadence "broke" her leg. It turned out, after consulting two more doctors that the first doctor had misdiagnosed her growth plate for a hairline fracture...medical care in a third world country can be exhausting as you learn quickly to do your own research and not trust your first diagnosis. None the less, she was unable to walk and refused to put any weight on her leg for 8 days. How on earth can any sane person be expected to entertain a two year old that suddenly can't walk?
We watched every kid movie we owned 57 times. We read books for hours. We took baths (she didn't have a permanent cast). We ate popsicles. We colored. We went for stroller rides around the neighborhood. But by day two we had exhausted our resources. Pets seemed like a good idea, at the time. But entertaining a two year old all day proved to be too great a task for any one animal. This one ran away and never came back.
Which forced us to explore options available in our yard. Frogs were fun because they were the same size at the fisher price little people, except better because they were alive. But that brought us back to the issue of not wanting to play with Cadence and being able to hop away at a whim. Haven't seen this guy since he moved off the "farm".
In a moment of desperation, Jody handed her the camera and gave her a quick photo shooting session. She shot a lot of frames, but this was her best.
