How did you spend your Sunday afternoon??

Mine was spent in the Joondalup Hospital emergency dept. Nothing drastic, just an X-Ray for Samuel's thumb.

Okay, let's rewind and start from the start.
I'll take you back far, far into the past, aaaaaalllllllllll the way back to Friday morning. Friday's are our homeschool group social days and this particular day was very VERY wet. Friday mornings, we meet up at one of the families homes, and play ball/team sports in the park across the road. As i mentioned it was a very wet day, so team sports were re-directed inside. now usually it is our little family that makes up the half of the players, literally my mob, against the other 2 regular families  OK well not against, but you know. Anyway we had 2 new families join us this day, One family has just moved from Minnesota with wait for it....6 cherubs!! hurrah, we are no longer the biggest :D, oh! but pooh! we are no longer the biggest ;).

So long story short (I'm really building this up far too much!) lots of kids inside, playing rambunctious games, he tripped/fell/was pushed, and landed his knee, CRUNCH! on his thumb.

doesn't look like much huh?

So we left it, it was 'fine' he didn't complain at all.  Saturday came, we headed into Perth for the library book sale, he even managed to 'interact' with an "art installation" (see further below) without discomfort.
Sunday morning, and after over hearing me speak to Jamie about it, it was 'oh so sore and i can't bend it.'

So 2pm Sunday (today) we headed up to the hospital ED. and waited...and waited...and waited :) we were 'lucky' 2 of the parents waiting had been there since 11am! (but, to be honest i think they only had croup, and a mild case at that) Now, is it just me, or am i just completely negligent in my children's health?? The mother who i chatted with, was surprised we'd never been to the hospital before, even still, when i mentioned we'd only been here since November.  In Samuel's 11 years of life, we have been to the hospital ED twice...including today, the first time was for stitches which SHOULD have been done at the Dr's surgery. but he said the chemist would have some 'glue', they didn't, and so the hospital was closer than going back to the Doctors. Kaytie is the only other one who has visited the ED, when i fractured her fingertip, after accidentally running over it with an overladen trolley :( and they didn't even do anything for her. just washed it and put tape on the open wound...i had already done that!

So how did we spend our 3hrs? well we did a bit of this

We did a bit of that

And we made ''stop-motion" movies on the camera,
which i would love to add in, cos they were pretty good i thought! (they are all mental about that 'vodaphone/virgin' ad about the Gary the mime who can now practice his passion, because of the free txt deal??) they are always trying to be mimes around the house...good thing we've started a "drama club" with our HS friends ;D Anyway i digress (again!) So he got his x-ray, Completely fine and a finger splint, we went our merry way home. i tried to scan in the X-ray, but it wouldn't work, so here is Mr Cheez showing off his battle wounds. apparently if it's not healed properly in a week or so, he is to go to "hand therapy" Are they serious!! -bend...straighten,bend...straighten - it's not rocket science! besides, i happen to know two O.T's i could ask ;P

So... lessons learnt today, don't complain and whinge about it, unless it's actually broken, as hospitals are DEAD BORING!!!  Oh and guess who thought he had a valid excuse for not doing school work!! HA! "nope, your brain still works my dear boy ";)

Mishaps over, what else have we done, well this post was going to be about what we did SATURDAY!. We discovered also Friday afternoon that there was a library discard Sale on and that the next day (Saturday) would be the last day!! So 12pm Saturday we headed into the city to the state library, (slightly disappointing, but it was the last day after all) I did still manage to find some good looking titles, i might have found more if it wasn't for Jamie 'rubbing off' on the children who were insistent that i stop buying books and spending money!! I had promised myself i would only spend the $60 cash that i had on me, and wouldn't use my card, well that idea fell through, when she crossed over that total, and stopped at 75. i twisted my arm and said it's only 15 more, that's not so bad.... "because it's the last day, children's books are half price, so that's $37.50 thanks" "Alright!! awesome!" says I, i was tempted to grab a couple I'd culled, but i had 5 impatient (but beautifully behaved) children and a phone reminder about the parking meter to contend with so we headed back to the car - happy we'd brought along both strollers - and added money to the meter. Since they had behaved so well, we headed back inside to the children's section, i was again slightly disappointed, it was more of a play space than a library, with maybe double the amount of books we own...and we sadly don't have that many! They had an 'artwork' there taking pride of place.  They called it a 'book totem'

ppffftttt Me, i called it an abomination!!! I had a look through some of the titles they had stabbed through the heart! i cringed every time i saw one i owned/liked/wanted or NEEDED!! *sigh* some were in such good looking condition :(

after a tip off from another parent, we headed across the courtyard to the PICA where we had an 'experience' saw an "immersive installation".   Brook Andrew's "The Cell",  basically a huge zig-zagged bouncy castle, with the added fun of costumes!

Apparently they thought the suits made them Ninjas
LOL yeah real stealth-like ninjas too!

Oh believe it or not, but i also donned one of these striking outfits, mine was blue like Samuel's, from here it gets a little hazy...not because i don't remember, but because i only had the phone camera, so, well, the photos are....crap. :/

Lily is consoling Sophie, she HATED it!
even though you have to drag her
kicking and screaming from the trampoline!

that's the kid with the 'broken' thumb remember.
He looks like he's in agony doesn't he :)

After our play ahem immersion , we were able to do a related art activity, we had to make our own black/white pattern. Mine's the triangle-y spotty one ;p

To be honest, after reading the bio of the artist, i have to wonder if anyone has actually "got it" I seriously doubt, except for the pretentious lame-os.

So by now it was nearly 3pm, meter was running out again soon, so we had a late afternoon snack of raisin toast and banana bread, before we headed home, with plans for a full day next time.


Have i told you lately. I.LOVE.PERTH!!
Seriously, i do! it's awesome, y'all should come visit us sometime :)

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