We were all outside last night (there is a park behind our house) watching the kids play and getting caught up, (DH was gone from last Saturday to late Wednesday night, and was on call Thursday and didn't get to come home) when our middle son Joel fell of the monkey bars and broke his arm in three places.
He is in a temporary cast now and will get the "real" cast Monday. I am so bummed for him because his birthday party is the 22nd and we are having it at a gymnastics center where they can bounce on trampolines and play on the other equipment.....I don't know how much of it he will be able to do, now, and he has been waiting SO long to be six so he can take "gym-kata" (combination of tumbling and martial arts) and I signed him up for the summer session.....I KNOW he won't be able to do that.....and at the beginning of June he (along with his brothers) is spending a week at his grandparents, where swimming at the country club is usually a big part of each day. So I am bummed for him.
We are also in discussions with his school regarding whether or not to have him repeat Kindergarten, primarily for reasons of immaturity, not academics, although the immaturity does affect his academics. He identifies emotionally with older kids because of his big brother, even though he is one of the youngest in his kindergarten class. The way things are now, we are going to re-evaluate in July and see if the principal/teacher make the same recommendation. I know that any disappointment he has will fade if we decide to retain him, and I want him to get off to a good start whenever he goes to first grade, but it is just really hard to contemplate a course of action that I know will be almost devestating to his little world.
So, please send good thoughts/prayers to Joel if you think of it!
Sally
He is in a temporary cast now and will get the "real" cast Monday. I am so bummed for him because his birthday party is the 22nd and we are having it at a gymnastics center where they can bounce on trampolines and play on the other equipment.....I don't know how much of it he will be able to do, now, and he has been waiting SO long to be six so he can take "gym-kata" (combination of tumbling and martial arts) and I signed him up for the summer session.....I KNOW he won't be able to do that.....and at the beginning of June he (along with his brothers) is spending a week at his grandparents, where swimming at the country club is usually a big part of each day. So I am bummed for him.
We are also in discussions with his school regarding whether or not to have him repeat Kindergarten, primarily for reasons of immaturity, not academics, although the immaturity does affect his academics. He identifies emotionally with older kids because of his big brother, even though he is one of the youngest in his kindergarten class. The way things are now, we are going to re-evaluate in July and see if the principal/teacher make the same recommendation. I know that any disappointment he has will fade if we decide to retain him, and I want him to get off to a good start whenever he goes to first grade, but it is just really hard to contemplate a course of action that I know will be almost devestating to his little world.
So, please send good thoughts/prayers to Joel if you think of it!
Sally
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