The latest installment in the ongoing saga of "The Boy with the Bionic Foot..."

Our superhero lost his powers when his arch enemy in the red uniform used her supersonic saw to cut and pry his bionic armor away and toss it into the bottomless abyss......

(translation:  alec got his cast off)

He was super excited to get his cast off "for good this time" {you might have noticed that the cast he is getting off is RED, not BLUE, like the original...we had some water issues during bathtime so he had to have it re-casted and he elected to get RED "like Spiderman"} And even though the cast tech. took FOREVER taking his cast off {10 times longer than the first time,} Alec was super patient and kept laughing because "it tickled."

I mentioned in the garden post about Alec filling his cast with loads of dirt and i hadn't thought about much more than dirt being in there, but if you look closely you can see round impressions where he had stuffed Othello pieces inside {you know, the black and white round discs}.  I think we counted a total of 5 pieces that came out, and that's only from the day before when they were playing Othello. I thank my lucky stars that he didn't discover his secret hiding place any earlier, or who knows what else we would have found.....

After the cast came off they cleaned off his leg and took him to the x-ray room to check the bones and make sure everything was healed right.  The kids though it was so cool that the picture instantly popped up on the screen and the x-ray tech even printed them out a copy to take home.

  

Alec got the "thumbs up" from the doctor and was good to go.  Too bad I didn't remember that even though he went in with a cast, he would need 2 shoes when he left.  Our next stop was Target.....

Once he got two shoes on, it was so funny to watch him walk.  Since his achilles tendon hadn't been stretched in 4 weeks, he couldn't extend his foot the whole way so he would walk on his toes with his heel up, just like when his cast was on.  It took a day or two to go back to normal and then he was as good as new.  And just as I expected, having a cast didn't even remotely affect his sense of caution, it was just 4 weeks of blue/red armor on his leg.  Would somebody please nail this kids feet to the ground!