Alex's Christening - What a day...

...Surely to remember for being too god and too bad all at the same time!!!

The beginning was great and sweet. Mami bathed Alex, she dressed him up beautifully in his silk suit, perfumed him and combed his hair. I watched curiously the whole ritual...

Then presents were exchanged between godparents (my mami & papi) and Alex and everything was just perfect, we were even going to be right on time for the Mass - very unusual in the case of the Guttilla family reunited!!!

BUT...the frightening accident happened. As the Sicilians say
"there's no party without a drum"...

And the drum was the sound of daddy slipping down the stairs and bumping on 12 steps, one after the other...The good news? He was still in one piece when he landed.
The bad news? He was holding ME when that happened...and I cried and cried and cried.

Mami checked me all over and I looked fine but very scared. I cried for all the duration of the religious ceremony, I was quiter in the restaurant but could not walk and did not play with the many other children present, very unlike me! I was so unhappy (hence I am not in the above picture) that mami insisted that I was taken to A&E...

Result: I broke my leg. Both tibia and fibula. I was very cheerful and smiley at the hospital that even the doctors could not believe it. Consequence: they put a splint on my leg and I had to go back to see the specialist the day after and my leg was put in a cast!

Shame and pain, but it'll be over in less time than what I imagine...