Jake's 9th and Lauren's fall.....

Today was a really long day. It started at about 0730, with Jake getting up and us all singing "Happy Birthday" to him and ended at 0030 with Lauren coming back from hospital with arm in a pot..

Jake received some nice presents off of everybody. He opened a couple of hockey sticks (one so Dad can play), a new net to score in, a SOCCER ball as he calls it, a new controller for his Xbox and a new game for it as well. Quite a good haul I think. He also had a couple of his mates around for a sleep over, and they brought a couple of gift cards, for the local game shop with them. (Both with a very generous $20 on each card.) His plan is to spend them on Saturday when, everybody comes to pick me up from work..

Jake and Lauren walked to school and I started to build the net, ready for when they got home. At about 1400 we received a phone call from school, asking us to come and get Lauren as she had fell and split her head open. Sarah went and got her and we all went to the Doctors for the first time in Canada. After a few lengthy minutes of filling in our details to the computer, she went inside and had her head glued together. When we got back we picked Jake up from school, went home and prepared the food for the BBQ we were going to have; and the kids went out to play.

After a couple of hours the kids were back inside and the steak was sizzling. Sarah asked Lauren what was wrong with her arm. She said she had hurt it, but didn't elaborate. She could move her fingers and had minimal movement at the wrist, so doctor Tom put it down to a bad sprain.. Sarah didn't believe my assessment and took her to the hospital where it turned out she had fractured both the Radius and the Ulna bones.. (This was done after we had had our dinner and Sarah got in trouble off the doctor, as she had let her have something to eat, when there was a possibility she would need to be put to sleep. So Sarah added that she had also let her have some sweets for being a good girl a couple of minutes earlier, which was met with more disapproval. What a bad mother she is!!!!) She was put to sleep, the bones were set and the cast was put on. (Seems I was not cut out for a Career in Medicine)

She is sat now, on the settee, enjoying her day off school and is fine. She just looks a bit beat up.