Collision

As I blogged about before I was in a bit of a funk but was feeling much better about things after our visit to the east side.  Then, the next day (Monday) I was right back into the poo house.  The day gets long when Gaetan has meetings and presentations spread throughout the day and the kids decide that they're going to push every single of my buttons.  I had finally had enough and despite that it wasn't the warmest out we went outside to play.  Our neighbor Chase got home sometime during that and they were having a blast together... which was great.  They needed to blow off some energy and I needed them to go play by themselves for awhile.  Dude really wanted to ride his bike so I told him after he got shoes and helmet on then he could.  Lucy was on the go-kart and Chase was riding his bike.  All was going well, until I thought that Dude was going a little bit fast for his own good.  As he zoomed past me I told him to slow down and be careful and not 10 seconds later I see him take a corner to fast, and take a head dive into the curb.  !!  Ah!  So I quickly run and hand Norah off to Kim and see if Dude is OK and as soon as I get there his forehead as this huge bruise and goose egg on it.  Luckily he was still conscious and was mostly saying that his hand hurt.  I was so thankful that he was wearing his helmet (he always does, but this just incident just makes me all the more happy that he was) and we all went inside.  Gaetan doing a presentation but I called him anyway because I knew it was at the end and told him he needed to get home because I figured that we should take him in to get looked at just in case.  So that meant that I was probably going to be late or not even go to KPhil because you never know how long it's going to take at urgent care.  Apparently everybody and their brother decided that today was a good day to get injured (probably because it was one of the last nice days out) so the waiting room was packed.  They stayed there awhile but then a nurse just came and did a quick look over and said that he should be fine but to watch for the usual symptoms.  Just in time so that I could rush over to KPhil.

The kids having fun before Dude banged himself up

Norah loving on Kim

Dude's Goose egg bruise

So, we are all a little frazzled anyway because of the accident, and we were rushing to get there and this person decided that using the turn lane wasn't something they were going to do today and came to a complete stop on Stadium which caused the car in front of us to slam on their brakes, which then we slammed on ours (on a positive note, we know our brakes are really good in Greta!) so we didn't rear end them, but almost got rear ended ourselves.  If I was a cartoon I would've had the little thunder cloud and static coming off over my head.  I was less than amused.

Luckily, we made it to rehearsal on time and the kids did a good job going to bed.  Whew.  What a day.

The older kids so excited about it!

Everybody was so good about the running around we got Froyo another day.  Norah just loved the spoon

JVG