Broken Elbow

Poor Elizabeth - in February she was riding her cousin's electric scooter (I allowed her one trip up and down the sidewalk and that was it!) and on that one trip she fell off extremely hard onto her elbow.
It didn't look swollen or anything so we ended up sending her to school the next day (bad mommy!) even though she wasn't really moving it. We took her into the nurse's office who said she didn't think it was broken because her range of motion was pretty good. Once she got home and in the bathtub we could see that her elbow was now swollen so I took her to the doctor the next day and it was slightly broken.

She wore a cast for 4 weeks. No biking, scootering, running, recess, P.E., etc.. We went to have a treat with our neighbors after she got the cast on.

She thought the idea of a cast was fun for the first few days, and after a while was very tired of it. She handled it really well and is glad to now be cast free!

Meet the Teacher and an Owie

Poor Ben - had a fight with a toy at the park and the toy won :(

He's doing much better today thank goodness!

I can't believe we are already doing things like this, but Elizabeth had meet the teacher for her new kindergarten class! She hasn't been assigned a teacher yet so we just met all the kindergarten teachers (there were 5) and while they talked to the parents about what to expect next year they pulled the kids aside and did a little assessment.

Here's the front of the school.

After meeting the teachers they let us walk around the school to check out the kindergarten classrooms. We had to see where she would be using the restroom next year.

The classrooms were big and bright - with a bathroom inside. Very nice!

(especially considering that I didn't have a bathroom, sink, or window when I taught!)

I took her picture in front of a few different activities that the K students have done. We plan to put the pictures in a little book so Elizabeth can read it over the summer and get used to the school.

My big girl! :)