ER Baby

I have decided that Maddi is going to be our ER child. The one with all the broken bones, and major accidents. Not only is she absolutely FEARLESS, but her falls always result in major injuries. When she was 3 months old she burnt her fingers really bad with blisters and everything. When she was a little over a year old she fell on a little match box car and sliced her skin open just above her lip and below her nose. We debated about taking her to the ER to see about getting stitches and opted not to (she still has a tiny scar that I just HOPE doesn't look obvious when she's older). And the lates and GREATEST is what you see in these pictures. One Sunday we had just gotten home from church and Lance had run out the door to go hometeaching, and I was making dinner as fast as I could so we could eat, Lance could get home, and I could leave to attend a Fireside I was in charge of. Everything was timed out to the minute and Mia and Maddi were playing. Maddi wanted to try on Mia's helmet (funny that a helmet is involved in this story but yet did nothing to protect the head) and had it on backwards, so Mia (being the typical big Sister that she is) wanted to help her put it on the right way so she kept trying to corall her into a place where she could get her to hold still long enough to fix it. She finally got right behind her and grabbed her around the waist, tripped and fell INTO Maddi slamming her into the corner of a wall. As soon as I picked her up her head just erupted forming the Largest GOOSE EGG I have ever seen and it just kept getting bigger. I called my neighbor to come over and take a look and as soon as I saw her face I knew it was bad. These pictures are actually a day later, so you can't really see the full effect. Thankfully she took Mia home with her (as I was pretty much in shock at this point) and I started trying to get ahold of Lance, one of my counselors to figure things out with the fireside it looked like I wouldn't be attending, and tried to find my keys. It always seems like the worst things happen on the Busiest Days! But anyway...Lance came with us to the ER and they were able to just use dermabond (aka. SuperGlue) on her cut, and opted not to do a Catscan (apparently while a GooseEgg can be a sign of internal bleeding, when doing a Catscan on a child that young there is a 1% chance that they could develop cancer later on....talk about a catch 22), and we were litterally in and out in about 45 minutes...record time for an ER visit....and were back home to put the kids in bed.

Some days I wonder if it's just me being a terrible Mom and not protecting her enough because somehow these things never happened to Mia, but to make myself feel better I just say it's her little personality. The ultimate explorer!!!!