Bumps, Bruises & Celebrations

I must say we have been EXTREMELY lucky that Bella has been pretty much injury free in life. Only very minor issues and they have been far and few between. However it now appears that we are playing catch up. On Saturday she sprained her ankle on one of the big inflatable slide/bounce house things. Today, I got a call from the school nurse informing me that Bella fell off the bench at lunch and hit her head on the lunchroom floor. She said that they iced it, and that she wanted to go back to the lunchroom, but that she had been very emotional (ahh break mommies heart).

Well I pick her up at school and she informs me that she didn't fall, she was pushed off the bench. By another girl in class, one who seems to do this kind of thing a lot - I had talked with two other mothers about incidents their daughters had with this girl - prior to Bella's today. I also had a few moms contact me after school because their daughters told them what happened, thus sort of supporting that Bella wasn't making up or exagerating that she was pushed off the bench. This is a whole new type of issue for us to deal with. I'm going to talk to the teacher, I'm just not sure what the correct way is to handle things like this.

So I took Bella to the doctor right from school, and the head looks like it's okay. We need to wake her up one time tonight, but all signs point to her being fine. The doctor did not feel the same about her ankle. It's very swollen still, much more swollen then the doctor felt it should be. So she sent us for an xray (Bella's first). We are waiting to hear on that. She's out of dance and gymnastics for two-three weeks, which is a big deal seeing as how she participates in the two for about seven hours a week. So fingers crossed she just has a bad sprain, and will not be out of comission too long. Bella is NOT an easy kid to keep down.

On to better news... We have some very exciting news in the family, my brother Josh proposed to his girlfriend Kim this weekend up in Sedona. It's been a fun week, talking on the phone with him much more then usual - as he prepared for this weekend. He asked her parents, bought the ring, all that good stuff. Kim said yes an seems ecstatic, and we are SO excited for them. They are a great couple and my brother is so happy when he's with her. They have so much in common, they are both science teachers (same school even), both love the outdoors and are both pretty serious atheltes. I think they have a wonderful future together, and we are thrilled that Kim will be a permanent part of our family.