well that was fairly easy slipping into no school for the summer mode. need to take advantage of the kids' time off! also trying to get stuff done in the yard... the rain we got from last week/this weekend still has things wet in the backyard. pretty squishy by the play structure and trampoline. so the kids have been spending most of their time in the front yard.
matthieu got a soccer net which he begged for and is thoroughly enjoying. it's 6'x4' so it's an okay size but i think ideally it should be larger. he basks in every goal he scores against me or guy!
danielle is bummed.... no handstands for another month and she'll have to wait til then to take the training wheels off her big girl bike... doctor's orders : (
what a scorcher today was!!! wasn't ready for that yet - we're still only the beginning of june! thank god for central air!
danielle is bummed and matthieu is looking forward to the end of the school year... it sounds like matthieu isn't interested in taking in summer fun classes this summer.... oh well... i can still make him take swimming lessons - hopefully : )
i figured my flowers would be safe from freezing now so i planted my annuals last night, i'll get the others in the flower bed tonight. i hope monday morning was the last of the frost... guy put up the trampoline last night, so of course the kids were excited about that. the girls came up with this idea to jump rope on the trampoline.... i'm not ready to go back to the emergency room so i told danielle she had to be extra careful. "i know, mom" she says.... yeah, right.... she's also been begging to take the training wheels off her bike. she'll at least have to wait until her dr. says her arm is 100% when we go next week before we take off the training wheels. danielle has improved some for bending her arm but she has a long way to go! at least she can extend it all the way now.
that's it for now....
been busy.... haven't we all!
well where do i start? hmmmm... new name at work - our members voted to ammalgamate with caisse provencher (no, not the ones in winnipeg) so that become official - as of may 1, we are caisse la prarie. that's been a little hectic, but getting better now. we had some preparation to merge our two banking systems but most of it was done at administrative level so we didn't have to work on it too much : ) we threw a little "party", as matthieu called it. still getting used to answering the phone properly, and the new titles, new people, new service charges... keeping lots of notes handy.
saturday was national scrapbooking day - so of course had to go celebrate by scrapbooking... worked on memere's album and made a couple months worth of cards for card club. glad to have gotten those done! the weather on saturday was wet and dreary.... good day to be indoors and doing something i love.
now we're getting ready for the bedard garage sale this weekend... i think it's from 8am to 3pm on saturday if you feel like stopping by. look for the bright pink signs south of town among the sea of garage sale signs that will be up.
the grades 4, 5 and 6 will be putting on their spring program tomorrow.... i'll be going to watch matthieu in the afternoon. chantale will be with me but danielle is going to get her cast taken off tomorrow. she is sooooo looking forward to it. she's had this one on for four weeks now and i'm anxious for her to have it removed too... it's pretty filthy... guess that's what happens when you play in the dirt, in the rocks, and the sandbox with a cast on and get food on it and stuff. she's been very active with her cast on, didn't slow her down for long! guy will be bringing her tomorrow so hope the dr. thinks she's doing good enough that she won't need another one!
well, talk to you all soon....
well diane called me at work tuesday morning because danielle had a sore arm after jumping off a chair, not a high chair, not a kitchen chair, but a kid's little yellow plastic chair. i guess she landed on her arm and then it started to swell. i didn't know what to do when diane called to tell me about it - danielle wasn't crying, she could move her arm some, she said it hurt, but she wasn't crying. diane and i were at a loss, neither one of us have had to deal with broken bones before so we didn't know what to look for. diane put ice on it and then said she'd call in a little while to let me know danielle was doing. well then danielle was acting normal, playing and joking and eating, but she said it still hurt. luckily, one of diane's neighbours is a chiropractor so she asked him what he thought. dislocated, maybe? so we need to bring her in. i wasn't thinking when i left work, i was still signed on to everything, left my desk with stuff i was working on - thinking i'd back before the end of the work day. it couldn't be broken, we wouldn't be at hospital long. yeah, right!
first we go in a room where the nurse checks out danielle and asks her questions, then we get moved to another room. we wait there until they come get danielle to escort her to xray. she thought taking a picture of her arm was cool. she was hoping she'd get a chance to see the pictures of her arm. then we went back to the room to wait for the doctor. imagine my surprise when he comes in after looking at her xrays and telling us that danielle has a broken elbow! so they moved us to yet another room where the doctor came back to put her arm in a splint and said that we'd have to go see the "bone doctor" in grand forks. it hurt danielle when they were putting the splint on, but she was being tough! she didn't care for the sling they put her arm in though, especially when they said she'd have to keep it on til she saw the doctor the next day. they gave her prescription for tylenol with codeine.
danielle didn't wake up that night, but she was restless. so she didn't have any meds till yesterday morning, we gave her her dose and then a little bit to eat. she started saying she was going to be sick and sure enough.... she tried nibbling on a few things but nothing would stay down. when i called the hospital to see what i could give her instead, they said it was the codeine, it's hard on the stomach. she was still throwing up on the way to grand forks. fun... i even missed my exit because i was trying to help danielle open the bag - poor thing was having a hard time managing with one good hand : )
so then we're at the valley bone and joint clinic, chantale is striking up a conversation with EVERYONE... "what's your name?" and usually they wouldn't realize she was talking to them, so it was like a loop of "what's your name?" "what's your name?" "what's your name?" until they would turn their attention to her LOL
all the doctors and nurses there are super nice. a VERY busy place! dr. thompson is her doctor, he showed us where the break was and said it's aligned pretty good but you could see one part where it was jutting out slightly, he said that should not cause any problems though. he explained a few things and that we'd have a few trips ahead of us. luckily we'll be able to do the re-xray in a week in roseau and they'll send the pictures to the clinic in grand forks for her doctor to take a look at them there. we'll be going back to grand forks in three weeks when she'll likely have this cast removed and have a new one put on for another three weeks. after that, danielle will need "parental supervision" for a while. LOL.
ben came and wrapped her arm in a full arm cast, he enlisted me as his nurse - good thing we had a good patient or i might not have done so well : ) he's a super nice guy too - gave us some tips on taking baths, etc. since he'd been through it last year when his little guy broke his arm. i gave guy a call when we were done. he was in grand forks for work and he took some time off to join us for lunch. we went to boston pizza - but in the states they call in "boston's - the gourmet pizza" as i've been corrected.
oh yeah, dr. thompson gave danielle prescription for an anti-nausea medicine or something but i brought it back to roseau to get filled, no one had that dose in liquid. they could get it by this afternoon but in the meantime she'd be puking... so we decided to try just regular tylenol/motrin and that's been working fine. she says she's not in pain with just the regular stuff so we'll keep up with that.
flashback to when my nephew, daniel, was one and a half (i think?) and he broke his leg after a tumble from a little tykes-type playstructure - and he had to be in a whole leg cast : (
danielle appreciates the calls and emails : ) so thanks for checking on her. if you do talk to her, please remind her she needs to rest her arm and not be so active - she thinks she can still continue to do everything like usual!
spent the weekend at camp moose lake, it was so much fun (like usual). i love going there because it is such an awesome setup - have your own space to scrapbook, lots of fun people, good food put on by the camp hosts, fun projects and fun ideas!!
here's a pic of the group that was there this time...
i started on a scrapbook album for memere (shh - it's a surprise!) it's been really interesting reading my ancestors history in the family books - i was trying to put faces to old pictures i was putting in her scrapbook. when i was thinking of doing this album for her, i was thinking that i wouldn't have much journaling in it but now i have some awesome stories to put in her scrapbook - there's a ton of stories in the family books, even about their voyage over from france and when they immigrated to canada. poor nicole had to put up with my blabbering about these people she didn't know : )
i was happy with what i got done - i still have a lot to do so i'll have to keep at it for the rest of the week. good thing i have a couple of days off this week!!
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