We are studying Anatomy and today we covered the major bones in our bodies. I had the 3 little ones put on shorts and labelled all of their bones with washable marker and we played "Simon Says" ie. Simon Says touch your metatarsals (toes) to your cranium (head!) It was great fun, they even encouraged eachother - Geoffrey suggested they touch their femur (leg) to their spine. They tried, failed and giggled.

We had a few errands to run and they proudly marched around with their bones clearly marked. They were playing tag on the concrete while waiting for Catherine's ballet class to end. And it was cold (for the south ) Instead of wearing his sweater (that I was holding) Geoffrey pulled his arms into his shirt and continued the game of tag. Until he tripped on his shoes, and could not break his fall, and broke his clearly marked clavicle! The ER doc asked him if he wrote the names so he would not get mixed up.  Geoffrey handled his injury very well. In fact we were not sure if we should waste a visit to the ER bc he was not complaining (unless you tried to move it) but he kept still on the couch and would not use his arm. Here he is all wrapped up and still clearly labelled. Only in our family would we top off a bone study with an actual broken bone!

This is not his xray - but the break is the same - almost clean through!