Well tonight was pretty much the first night of drama when it comes to watching your child in pain. To be honest, we have had a good run. 18 months is pretty good. So, what happened? Well as usual, Mina has a thing about tearing around the house like a mad woman. Now I have always realized that you can't really stop that but what you should do is to eliminate the risk of injury.

The culprit... I think mostly the devices that connect her feet to the floor. She used to wear those Gap socks with the rubber bits on the bottom. Those worked fine but as she has gained more weight and speed, those were beginning to become a bit bad at keeping her feet to the floor on those around the couch pivots. Was solid proof of that. Honestly, it all seemed pretty harmless. She has fallen before and this time didn't sound any different.

Like the phrase "Its not the fall that kills you, but the sudden stop," It wasn't the fall that got her, but where she landed.... right on her face. For the first seconds it was an exercise of picking her up with a Yosh-Yosh, you're o.k.... Then the blood started. OMG there was blood everywhere. At first, for the first few minutes, I swore she had busted one of her front teeth. There was just so much blood. After cold tissues and ice covered tissues, we were able to finally determine that it was her lip. The giveaway, the balooning lip. There it was the cuts from her teeth. After about an hour of going through cleaning up, calming down and assessing the damage, we have finally determine that she did indeed split her lip, her front left tooth took a hit as well as her right tooth seems to have been bumped back a bit. Will it fall out? Who knows. It seems seated pretty well still so fingers are crossed until it is actually scheduled to come out.

I suppose with an 18 month old, and a 6-week old boy, this is just the beginning..... sigh