Sympathy Pains

A few days ago I crashed on my bicycle. I was lucky to come away with very minor injuries just a little less skin on one knee and elbow and some muscular strain. Unfortunately the muscular damage meant that I spend the evening and much of the next day half hobbling around the house and University.

Jack was very concerned and was glad that I wasn't badly hurt.

Since then Jack has been, shall we say, a little more delicate than usual. Any bump or bruise that would normally hurt for only a moment now comes with debilitating side effects. Any kind of collision resulted in 15 minutes or so of slowed laboured movement.

Today on the way home from school he tripped along a neighbour's garden wall, it's very low and brick so it scraped his knee a little. Jack limped home and upstairs to have it cleaned and dressed. Then he hobbled rigidly back downstairs and immobilised himself on the reclining sofa. All the while grunting and gasping and complaining about the stiff movement.

We're in love...

18-01-12

When I picked up Jack from school today he insisted that we search though his bag. There was possibly a buckle in there and it was important that we find it because if it's not in there then it's in my pocket and it's not in my pocket, I just checked it's definitely not there.


So I searched through for him and located the small silver hear shaped buckle.

Amber-leigh gave it to me. She said I can give it back to her tomorrow, she doesn't mind if I keep it until then.
Why did she give it to you?
Because it's shaped like a heart.
As good a reason as any I suppose.
Yeah, we're in love so she gave me a heart. I made her a heart shaped mobilo. (mobilo is a construction set that he favors in school. So much so that they've had to restrict his time in the construction corner.)
You're in love huh.
Yeah, but we're not married. (the marriage is planned for age 6 apparently)

The sparks between Jack and Amber-leigh have started up again after something of a dry spell. Lately she's become a very popular subject again and he's even working on getting her over to our house for dinner.

Upon searching though his bag some more I came across a milk carton cap... When I asked him about it he very casually replied.
Oh that? Billy-erin gave me that a long time ago. (it wasn't in there yesterday) We need to get her a toy for her birthday, she said she doesn't mind a transformer.