We had quite the eventful evening. Alison got to go to the ER tonight. We needed to rule out a broken ankle. Even though we are very vigilant about her wearing her brace unless she is sleeping, swimming or in the bathtub, we were shocked to see that her ankle was quite swollen when we took her brace off before her bath tonight. Alison had been at a birthday party this afternoon where they had a bounce house, and she spent most of her time jumping around in it. She came out at one point and said her left foot hurt, but went right back in and kept jumping. So I thought nothing of it. Until tonight. And off we went to the ER.

The good news? The ankle was not broken. The bad news? It is sprained.

The good news? We had our first trip to the ER that didn't end in an overnight hospital stay. The bad news? We now have to figure out how to keep Alison off her foot as much as possbile for the next week or so. That's not going to be fun and it's going to require a lot of tv and movies.