As soon as I got home from work yesterday, Dan called me to tell me that Olia had been hurt in gym class and the school wanted us to pick her up.  The nurse had reached Dan on his cellphone.  I went to the school to get Olia and the nurse told me that she thought Olia's arm was broken. I kept thinking....oh, no, not another trip to the ER.  I called her doctor who works in a new modern health center.  The office told me to bring her in right away and that there was an x-ray center right in the building.  Apparently the kids had been playing some kind of tag game in gym class.  A boy ran in front of Olia and tripped her and another kid, and then Olia fell over the other kid and onto her right arm.  It was quite swollen.  The doctor examined Olia's arm and thought it was broken so he sent us down to x-ray.  Fortunately, after waiting about an hour, the x-ray revealed that it was just a sprain and a bruise.  I am so glad!  I kept thinking that this would have been the end of competition cheerleading and Olia just loves cheerleading. The doctor told her to keep the arm elevated and that if it continued to bother her that we would have to see an orthopedic doctor.  Years ago, Amy got hurt in gym class at a different elementary school.  I took her for an x-ray which didn't show a fracture.  She kept complaining so I took her to an orthopedic doctor who touched her leg and said it was broken. He x-rayed her and we could see the fracture healing. The same thing happened with my foot years ago.  I went for an x-ray which did not show a fracture.  Months later I went to another orpthopedic doctor who did a scan and it showed a fracture.  I hope Olia's arm is not broken, but she said it still really hurt this morning.

   Olia had gone camping with her Bible School over the weekend.  She had such a good time and met a lot of new kids.  She said that each person was offered the opportunity to get up and speak to the group and talk about a traumatic event in their life and their relationship with God and when they first started praying.  Olia said that she talked about her grandmother dying and that she started crying and that many of the people in the group were crying.

   Olia is definitely a very strong-willed Russian girl.  I imagine that she was just like that when she was younger in Ukraine.  Last night she told me that she got smacked a lot by her grandmother and great-grandmother because she didn't listen well.. She is still not the best listener. She also told me that her great-grandmother had an outside shower and when she was really fresh that they stood her under the shower and turned on the cold water. She said it was not fun!

   Olia had told me before that her uncle had once visited her at the orphanage.  What I didn't understand before was that he visited her after we met her, but before we went to court.  She said that she didn't tell him that we met her or wanted to adopt her because she was afraid that he would try to stop it and that she really wanted to have a family.  I guess he could have tried to stop the adoption.