Lucie's first trip to the ER

It was bound to happen. Our daughter practically bounces off the walls most days, so she decided to try it literally yesterday. My poor mom was watching her and she fell back and hit her ear on a stupid brick ledge in the basement (which has since been covered in nicely forgiving pipe insulation). Mom felt so bad, despite me telling her that it could've happened while any of us were watching her. Anywho, we had a pleasant outing to the Emergency room and Lucie scored 6 stitches. Daddy was an idiot and let her eat so they couldn't sedate her. Instead I got to pin her down while they worked. All of the doctors were wonderful and the finished product looks great. She recovered almost immediately and is back to running around like a meth-head. All I've thought about since then is what a miracle it is that she doesn't have scars everywhere. Here are some pics of the blessed event. WARNING: some of them are not for the squeamish!

The waiting room.  She ran around trying to wound herself further. 

The wound!

Playing with syringes and gauze is fun!

Now with topical anesthetic on.  Still smiling.

It's about to not be fun.  Daddy knows.  Lucie's starting to figure it out.  

There was a lot of this going on...


And this...

All better!

I wish we had a picture of all 6 of us trying to keep her still and "happy" while she got sewed up.  It was work!  But Lucie took it like a champ.  Check that one off the list of rites of passage!