Anna won!

Anna beat her sister for her first trip to the Emergency Room last Friday night! She's fine now, but had us scared. We were at my brother & sister-in-laws house Friday afternoon, I had changed her diaper, clothes and was putting her in her car seat and noticed she was really fussy. If any of you have kids you know they despise car seats (Emma and Anna are no exception), so I didn't think much of it. We were meeting to eat dinner with my mom, dad, brother, the girls and I. Anna started really fussing and wouldn't stop no matter what I did. Once we figured out it was something with her left arm I made a call to the pediatrician. Well, I didn't wait on a call back because she was getting worse and not using her arm at all (By the way they called be back 2 hours later). It was just hanging by her side and she would twitch her fingers every once in a while. I picked up Jody from work and off to the ER we went. After some x-rays and basic "manipulation" the ER doctor said it was probably nursemaids elbow, which basically means one of the bones in her arm came out of socket and needed to go back. They gave her tylenol and motrin and she seemed better but was still not moving her arm. They suggested a visit to her peciatrician in the morning so we picked up Emma and headed home. We woke up Saturday morning, made another call to the pediatrician and waited on a nurse call back. This time they called back within 10 minutes and off we went to Capitol Pediatrics in Raleigh (about 35 minutes away). After some more "manipluation" the doctor heard a "pop" and within a few minutes Anna was using her arm again! She is at risk for re-injuring her arm so we have to be careful. All in all it was an event we don't want to repeat. But how did she get the nursemaids elbow? The only thing the doctor and I could figure out was when she was sitting up she started to tip and I grabbed her arm to catch her. It made me feel really great, did I tell you I'll be getting the mother of the year award?