Friday, March 10, 2006

the best present of all

[my title is oozing in sarcasm...]

erica and i went out for a walk yesterday afternoon. It was such a nice day. Just a little breezy, but not cold at all. andrew had taken her out earier in the week to walk up and down the sidewalk and she liked it, so i decided to try it too.

We were having fun; just walking up and down the sidewalks. she was really enjoying the time outside. Well, after maybe 20 minutes we started heading home. She was starting to walk a little too fast, and i said: "erica, slow down a little." Just as i said it---

WAMM!!!

she fell and landed on the pavement. Luckily, she had her hands out and stopped herself-- but then tumbled over and landed on her face. [the lucky part being that it could have been a lot worse.]

so, my baby [she's not a baby anymore] has a nasty cut-up face. she has a huge scrape on her forehead. the side of her nose and the top of her nose are scraped badly also. One of her fingers is also really red-- but i think its b/c she's been sucking on it alot lately and its getting rather chapped.

i'm so afraid to take her out into public. i was gonna go out and about today. but now i think i'll just stay home. i dont want people thinking: "what did that woman do to her child?"

6 comments:

Tom said...

Awe, poor little rascal! I bet she cried hard on that one! There is nothing worse than watching your child in pain. My daughter who is 5 fell down the stairs last night. It was a nasty fall, luckily she didn't break anything. My wife was at the ER till 1:00 last night.

Crazy Me said...

Poor baby. She's had it rough lately, hasn't she?

Becky L said...

her little scrapes are healing. the forehead hardly looks bad anymore. she still has that scab on her nose-- which makes it SO HARD to wipe her nose, since she has a cold. ah well.

Anonymous said...

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Becky L said...

no, val, no!!!

xanga is CRAPPY! its soooo un-user-friendly. blogger is amazing!

(i say this out of experience.)

Agnes said...

Aw hon. They all do that. It's part of learning to walk. haha
Riley did it too. He has a nice "character" scar in the middle of his right eyebrow. :)