Poor Baby Claire Bear

Well we can no longer say that we have never had any broken bones. Claire had a little accident with a play ground and the play ground won!! She was at the park with Evelyn while Brian was watching Coleman's lacrosse practice (the park was next to the field). They played happily for a while until Claire fell off the bridge thing and landed on her arm wrong and started crying. While if you know Claire she cry's a lot so Evelyn didn't think to much of it and took her over to Brian. Claire said her arm hurt and Brian looked at it and immediately thought it was broken. So he gets the kids (he had everyone but Leland, who was with me at her kindergarten interview at the school) and heads straight to the car. He calls me and I meet him at the ER. Thanks to a wonderful friend (thanks brandy) Leland got to stay at her little thing and she picked her up for me. Anyway after we got to the ER they got us in a room and took a few x-rays, which confirmed that it was broken in 2 places. ( of course NONE of this was done in any sort of a timely fashion). Next the nurse came in and gave Claire some medicine to help her relax, because at this point she was a mess!!! It didn't take long before she was drunk as a skunk and literally cracking us up. I was trying to hold her so she wouldn't hurt her arm anymore and I guess she was so relaxed that she just peed all over me and the floor. It was super fun to have pee on my jeans the rest of the day. Claire on the other hand thought it was pretty funny :). Anyway when the DR came in Brian was not that impressed and wanted to take her to a different ER where a friend of ours was working. You should have seen the Dr's face when he asked if that would be OK. (we would have gone to the other place first, but we couldn't find out if he was working so we just went to the one that we knew took our insurance) anyway they agreed to let us leave and sent us with the x-rays to to see our AWESOME friend at the other ER. He took such good care of her and i was totally impressed with the whole ER. When they had to set her arm back in place they game her this shot of medicine that made her totally out of it. She was scary looking, because she was awake, but not really present. It upset me so bad that I had to leave the room and about a minute later Brian had joined me in the hall. he sat down next to me and put his arm around me and he was just totally crying, it was so sweet to see him so emotional. Brian hardly EVER cry's, but he loves his family and to see his little girl like that broke his heart. I love that man! After it was all over she slept for about a hour and then she started to come around. It was so sweet that the whole day all she kept was "I want to be done and be with my sisters" she loves she sisters so much!!! This was a hard day and I hope she heals fast. She will be in a soft cast for about a week until the swelling goes down and then we will have it put in a hard cast. She is hoping it can be pink and her sisters already told her what they wanted to put on it. Evelyn wants to say " Claire I love you so much" and Leland wants to say " You are a Pinkalicious girl" I love these girls. And not to forget Coleman, he played the caring big brother the whole time. And once again my awesome friend Brandy came to my rescue and came and got Evelyn, Coleman and Ruby at the first ER and kept all 4 of my kids ALL day!! She was a life saver!!!!!

Can you see the brake? There is a small fracture on the other bone that didn't show up on this

x-ray. I know that had to hurt :(:( It makes me sad!

Here she is in her med. induced sleep. I hope she never has to do this again!!

I love this little girl with all my heart and I hope she like all the attention she gets from her cast!!! I am sure she will use it to her every advantage LOL!