Broken Bones Diner and Follow-up to A School Chair Did That?

To Celebrate the first Broken Bone in our family, dinner was at the "Broken Bones Diner".

The menu:

Everyone got a Menu by their place-setting and we got to light the candles. That is a big deal in our house. It means something special is happening.
The kids thought that this was such a great idea. I just hope that Sweet-boy does not take BIG chances so he can break a bone too.
The Bone cake.

I should have left it alone, the crack looks nothing like a cracked bone.

I never claimed to be a cake decorator.

Oh well it tasted great!

The kids did however really enjoy the dinner and wanted to have "Broken Bones Breakfast".

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Today we went to the Orthopedic Surgeon or Bone Doctor to get the good news.

It is going to be fine.

It is broken good, but nothing that requires more then continued wearing of the soft-cast and weekly checks of the healing. They want to make sure that the finger does not rotate out and grow funny. It was good news for a mom, but very sad news for a kid that desperately wanted a cast for people to sign. So on the way home we stopped at a craft store, picked up a blank t-shirt, some Sharpy pens and prepared for a signing of the shirt vs signing of the cast. She was delighted over that one. Even though it has been a hard time for her and painful she has really been a good sport about things.

Of course I get to sign it first.

Then we were off to have lunch together and then back to school.
Here she is home from School with a signed shirt.
I hope through all this she remembers how much I love her. It has been nice to have her need me. She needs help getting dressed, washing her hair, even doing her hair - something that she NEVER lets me do. I have always wondered that when her brother showed up 4 years into her perfect-world-revolves-around-me life that she did not feel pushed out? I wonder did I push her too hard or too soon to be independent? She is and I am proud of that, but I also miss my little sweet-pea shadow, the girl that wanted to go everywhere with me. So even though it is for a sad reason that we must spend alot of time together, I am going to relish all these appointments, all these moments where she is mine to enjoy. I hope that it will register somewhere in her mind that Mom is and always will be there for her.