It occurred to me that I haven't posted in a long time.
I had the time of my life in Omaha for two glorious weeks of fun, food, and eager people to play with Kate. Kate also had the time of her life, as she was surrounded by doting family members, new toys and books (books and toys that I played with as a kid), and playful squirrels. It was really a special time to reconnect with family. I loved every minute! (I'll post pics and some more details later--too lazy right now.)
Tonight Andrew and I took Kate to Rock Canyon Park to walk around. The weather has been gorgeous! They have a jungle gym that she was playing on, and was even able to climb up on things she's never been able to climb up before. She did it several times, but was a little wobbly, and so Andrew was right by her. Her little foot slipped, and her chin/lip crashed into something as she fell. Andrew was able to catch her before she hit the ground, luckily, but she was instantly covered in blood! Her little white sweatshirt was caked in seconds. It was so traumatic! She has never had more than a scratch in her life, which I always thought was remarkable for how active she is. Andrew grabbed her, and we headed to the car, but she immediately started screaming that she wanted to go on the slide again. She was upset by the fall, of course, but even more upset at the idea of not going on the slide again. We stopped to look at her--face, hands, shirt, pants covered in red. Her hands were making nice bloody hand prints on us as well. We couldn't really tell what was cut, but it looked like it was just her lip (and not teeth, thank goodness). She was really hysterical about wanting to continue on the slide, so we thought maybe a couple more times would make her feel better--then we'd go.
She seemed to have stopped bleeding rather quickly, too, so we thought it'd be okay.
I can't imagine what other people were thinking when they saw Kate happily going down the slide--completely CAKED in blood. We only let her go down twice more--she was really kind of causing a scene, and I wanted to get her cleaned up and see what exactly was hurt.
We didn't realize for a little while that she had cut her lip and below her lip as well. All night, she was chewing on her lip--both cuts. Yikes--we are hoping it doesn't get infected.
Anyway, that Kate really is a fighter and doesn't let a little blood and staring strangers get in her way!
4 comments:
how many people were there? what a funny thing for her to be able to tell her first date 15 years from now. lol
i would say, poor little girl...but it sounds like she didn't care. poor jenn and andrew!!
It is so sad when your baby is bleeding! Ibby fell off the couch onto a tile floor and was just gushing blood. Then we realized she had cut a tendon in her mouth that was running between her two front teeth (it would've had to have had surgery later), but nothing else so it was really a blessing. Crazy!
What a kid! At least you don't have a kid who freaks when she sees blood, like mine do. :)
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