Heeeey Brother!

As most of you know I adore my youngest brother Sammy. Not to say I don’t love all my brothers equally, but how can you not laugh at a 7 year old who censors the older kid’s conversations with “beeps” and who whistles and says “hubba-hubba” when he sees a cute girl? Anyhow, Sammy had a tragedy befall him earlier this month. While playing in the backyard with his friend Ethan and his trusty companion/dog Keller there was a bit of an accident. You see, Ethan is afraid of dogs so he had a spray bottle to spray Keller if he came close. Ethan got a little carried away and sprayed too much water on the slide creating a nice slick surface for Sammy to slide down. To hear exactly what happened from the mouth of the victim, watch this:





The poor kid broke his tibia pretty good. He had to be put into a splint for a week before they could cast it and he had a pretty rough time learning to walk on crutches. If you know Sammy then you know that being slow is not in his nature. I was really worried about how this would affect him emotionally, but turns out he is fine with it! To everyone’s surprise he thinks that a broken leg is the best thing to ever happen to him. He has made comments about how he has never received so many gifts in his life and he even asked our Dad if he wishes he would break his leg so that he could “get lots of presents”. Leave it to the greedy 7 year old to figure out that a broken limb is a ticket to new toys.

He has the full cast now (red for the U of U of course!) complete with friends and family signatures and Sammy original drawings. He now moves pretty well with his crutches and can often be seen lifting one crutch up to pretend it is a machine gun to shoot at people. He will have a walking cast in about a month or so and should get the cast taken off for good around December. Check out how cool he looks: