Insults and Injuries

So during soccer practice lately we've been switching off. We always have brought the girls to play on the playground while Grant plays soccer. But in the past I would just stay with Grant and Missy would stay with the girls which I have to admit is completely unfair. So now we switch halfway through.

Last night while I was with the girls, pushing Rachel on the swing and watching Nina on the jungle gym dome thing, Nina fell. She had been perfecting the dismount and landing on her feet really well. Then for some reason she felt the next step was a dismount onto her hands into the gravel but missed and landed on her chin somehow. It wasn't very far and I made it over there quick to pick her up. She was crying with good reason. Her chin was a bloody mess with a lot of abrasions and had somehow managed to get a pokey thorn thing on her lips in the fall. We washed her injury with some of Grant's water and she was tough.

The next day, I got a call from the school that Grant was in the nurse's office and wanted to talk to me. He told me he had been running on the track at recess and had fallen. He had pretty bad scrapes on both knees and one elbow and was kind of traumatized. Even then, though he wanted to go home he was worried about how Nina would get picked up. Every day they tell him when Mom pulls up and he walks over to get Nina and bring her to the car. And he was very concerned that she wouldn't get picked up without him to help. But I convinced him it would be ok and he came home.