Hanson's Happenings!: It's all fun and games until someone breaks an arm

Yesterday turned into quite the eventful day. It started out with a trip down south and a visit with Grandma "Ta". When we got home Gunnar was out doing some work at the church and Grace was playing with her new baby doll that Grandma bought her. She was playing on the chair, I think she was trying to sit on the arm when next thing I knew, she was on the ground screaming. When I picked her up her arm had an obvious bend where there shouldn't have been one.

I called Gunnar and he called the direct line to the sheriffs office (it is nice to have friends in the right places). The fire department beat him home. When we walked in they all knew him from during the fires, so it was like a mini reunion.

They said her arm was broken, and although they would be more than happy to take us down, they said it was okay for us to transport her to children's hospital.

My parents, Daniel and Maria and Sonja came down to the waiting room. After we had been there for a while our friend Marcus and his son Diego stopped by. So we had a whole party. Grace was in really good spirits while we waited, laughing and going from person to person.

Kissing her owie

We read books and hung out for a LONG time. I think we got there around 6 and aside from the initial check and the x-rays we sat around until 9:30 when they took us back to show us the x-rays. In the waiting room she was reading books and turning the pages with her bad arm, and although she wasn't using it as much as normal, she didn't seem that upset. When we went back the nurse seemed shocked that she would let us touch her arm and that she wasn't screaming and when she showed us the x-rays we knew why. She cleanly broken both the arms in her forearm.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words....so I will let you see the rest of the story.