If this is how my New Years is starting out, I'm screwed

So not only did I end 2009 being completely heartbroken by 2 of my family members, New Years Day poor Benjamin ended up in the emergency room :-( Audrey decided to play a game of "Tug of War" with Benjamin's arm as the rope.. needless to say, his elbow was dislocated in 3 places. He now has "Nurse Maids Elbow" which means that his elbow can pop out at any time from now until he's about 5 years old. We have to be very careful around him now, which is proving to be very hard. I keep forgetting and almost doing something I shouldn't.



At the hospital he was such a good boy. We immediately knew something was wrong at the house when he said he couldn't move his elbow. The poor thing was crying so we decided to take him in. Luckily Amy was here and watched Audrey so both Dan and I could take him. When he got into his room, the PA immediately tried popping it back into place. However, it took another doctor over an hour later to really make it work. My poor baby was screaming in agony as these doctors did this. He was such a trooper though. He did very well for the 2 sets of xrays and all the waiting in between doctor visits. I'm so proud of my baby for his braveness <3

Needless to say, Audrey is grounded (as much as a 5 year old can be grounded). She's going to bed at 7:30 for the rest of the week with no after-dinner snack (her normal bedtime is 8:30). We also let Benjamin take out 2 big toys out of her room that she is not allowed to play with for the week. We didn't know what else to do, so that is the extent of it, but she seems pretty upset by it. She really did/does feel very bad about hurting her brother, so it's hard to ground her, but we've warned her before about playing to rough with him, and this was our final straw.

You wouldn't know by looking at Benjamin and Audrey today that she hurt him yesterday. He has no cast, and he isn't mad at his sister in the least. He loves her so much and it's so sad to see the way she treats him sometimes. It makes me think back to when I was a little girl and hated having my sister around... no matter how mean I was to her she always would be around me. I guess that just says something about siblings though... can't live with them, can't live without them.

...Crap, I suppose I should really forgive Julie huh?????