The Latest

The soccer season ended this week. At Joseph and Grant's last game, Austin wandered away from the family and went the goal and started pulling on the net. We didn't notice he was gone until we heard gasps from the fans and saw them pointing towards the goal. There was Austin tangled in the net of the recently collapsed soccer goal. Joe ran out there and he and the ref tried to put the goal back together. But, one of the connectors, made of PVC, had snapped, so they ended up having to use medical tape to hold the goal together for the rest of the game. To make things worse, at the end of the game, I remembered we were assigned to bring treats and had forgotten to bring any. That's a BIG "whoops"! Especially because we lost the game and the kids were looking forward to the treats as their consolation prize.

Hans' last game was on Wednesday and he went out with a bang! Before the game I thought he was being a little too hopeful when he said he wanted to score four goals. But sure enough, he got his four goals! When he puts his mind to something, he certainly gets it done.

The last little bit of news is that we took Jennabee to the ER last night. She was riding on her little foot propelled bike (no pedals) while her big brothers rode their bikes. While they were riding, Hans crashed into her, causing her to fly off her bike and land on the side of her head on the pavement. Two of her brothers tried to help her up, while another one ran inside to get me, but she was so upset she pulled back from their grip, falling this time on the back of her head. I brought her inside and tried to comfort her. Within five minutes she was vomiting and afterwards almost immediately fell asleep. I kept asking her if she could hear me and she kept nodding. Joe came home soon after the accident, and after she threw up for the fourth time, Joe took her to the ER. She continued to throw up in the hospital, so they gave her some anti-nausea medicine. She had a CT scan done and we were relieved that it showed no bleeding in the brain. She eventually started to perk up and become more her normal self. She really liked her hospital gown, getting stickers, and eating popsicles. We were also lucky that the ER nurse is from our church and took extra special care of Jennabee. At about 10 p.m., the doc said she could go home and told us to wake up in the middle of the night a few times and make sure she stirred in her sleep. He also told us to keep her from participating in activities that could reinjure her brain for at least a week (wrestling, playgrounds, bike riding, etc.). Somehow I have to keep her from trying to tackle Austin for a WEEK! This is going to be interesting.

One thing the doc told Joe that seems kind of scary, is that Jennabee now has a 1 in 200 chance of getting cancer in the next 30 years because of her CT scan. Those chances aren't small enough to make me comfortable, but knowing that the doc still thought she should have the scan done, I assume it was worth it to make sure there was no trauma to the brain.