October 11, 2004
The family organised a great day out for their second birthday at a vineyard in Stellenbosch. A lovely warm day, the whole family came we had picnic baskets, the works. I loved every minute of being surrounded by family and my special men.
The day started out quite dramatically though, Stuart was in the shower and I was out of the room momentarily and the boys were in the bathroom with Stuart. I heard the bathroom door bang then again and thought that a finger might get hurt. I ran in to see Oliver mid scream (without the noise) and his finger bleeding, he had had it caught in the hinge and Benjamin was repeatedly trying to slam the door shut but it wouldn’t. Poor little Oliver, he had a badly mashed and very sore, bleeding finger, he screamed and screamed and I couldn’t settle him. The finger was bleeding and he was fighting me as I had him on my lap, I just burst into tears. Merille and Neil rescued him from me and tried to dress his finger. WE decided a visit to the local a&e was called for, just to dress it and check that nothing was broken.
It turned out that the skin was torn almost to the bone and the bone had a small chip. The dr thought it was unnecessary to put a splint as the size of the chip was very small. He was so good about it tho. R600 later, we went to the birthday party.
It was such a lovely day and Oliver soon forgot about his injury, although he was quite protective of his finger making sure that noone interfered with it.
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