Musketeer Training

Tuesday night was Awana night. I called Jenelle to dinner. Curt and I hear a big THUD from the living room. Not an unusual sound in our house. Jenelle jumped off the back of the couch in the living room. She comes into the kitchen crying and holding her wrist. The Gilliland side seems to be prone to wrist injuries so I put a pack of frozen pees on her wrist. Well, the crying continues to go on and on. Again, that is not so unusual in our house. After 20 minutes, the crying continues and the wrist looks a little swollen. So Curt and I pack things up for the emergency room.

I must say that Jenelle was extremely brave. Once we got to the hospital she didn't shed a single tear. She was moving that wrist around for the doctors and for the x-ray. She has a buckle fracture in the left wrist. The bone compressed in the fall and instead of being straight, it now has a little bump to it. She is in a very bulky temporary cast with a sling. We'll go to the ortho on Friday where she'll probably get a cast (in hot pink, of course) for a few weeks.

Jenelle got the new Barbie and The Three Musketeers movie for her birthday. She has wanted to watch it every day. Barbie and her friends are Musketeers in training and they do all kinds of cool moves in the video. Jenelle has jumped off the back of the couch a zillion times (apparently), but I think last night she might have been trying out a new Musketeer move. Who knows?

When we were leaving the ER Jenelle says to me, "I'm so lucky. Now I don't have to ride my bike." Then she says, "I can still go bowling." I don't know where the bowling thing came from. But I guess she really doesn't like learning to ride without training wheels. She even mentioned it again this morning about how lucky she was. I guess that's finding the silver lining in all this.

Seeing Jenelle in her sling brought flashbacks to when she had a broken arm as a baby. I thought I'd post the picture for you to see. Hopefully, this will be our last injury for a long time.