Chance Is Here Today

Some Explaining To Do!

Well, I thought I better post before I put the pictures in so that I could explain my beautiful 7 month old little girl with a black eye.

I hestitated putting the picture on the blog at all, but we did take her into the Dr. and no it wasn't child abuse!

I had Jordyn sitting on the counter in front of me and I was holding her legs. I reached to my right to get something from the sink just as she reached to her right to get a pile of mail on the counter. The pile of mail slid off the counter and she went with it. I got ahold of her jammys, but that wasn't enough. The next thing I knew she was on the floor screaming. I was so upset. I watched her for the next hour and kept feeling the back of her head to see if there was any bumps. Poor Chance was standing right there when she fell. He went running into his bedroom and didn't come up for quite a while.

By the time David came home her eye started turning purple and swelling up. So, we took her to the Dr. Dr. Woods was on call and I am not so impressed with him. I think he is a little dramatic. He said that he felt that she was fine but suggested that we might want to take her to the hospital and have a CAT Scan done to ease our minds. Given the fact that David has had EMT Training (Ski Patrol) we felt confident that we would know if there was a need to take her in. He assured us that if there was any damage to the skull it would be fine if we waited until Saturday (the next day). Anyway, after the eye started to swell up I realized that she had reached for the mail, it slipped and so did she. Her head went down and hit the countertop and then she fell off onto the floor. When Dr. Woods walked in the room he said, "OK, so who is more upset, mom or baby!" Obviously it was me, I was the one crying! Wow did I feel horrible! Thank the Lord that in his wisdom he made little children so resiliant!

Well, my countertops are in!!!! I can't believe it. Thanks Lisa for being so patient and letting me go first! They look so wonderful. We have a few more drawer and door fronts to go on and then the floor can go in. Well, actually the floor can go in at any time now.

posted by Colleen @ 3:24 PM