Busted Lip

On Sunday night 10/3/10 Josephine fell and bit through her lip. She is fine, but it did give me a really big scare.

We had a great day on Sunday, lots of running around and playing outside in the nice fall weather. Everything was great until (insert dramatic music...dum, dum, dum)...it was time to go to bed. We had completed all of the nightly rituals and had just finished brushing teeth when she stepped back off of the stool and slipped and hit her chin on the bathroom sink counter. At first I thought it was just an "ouchie" but then I saw the blood. Then I saw the big teeth marks on the fleshy part of her bottom lip. Steve helped me clean it up and that is when I noticed the cut on the outside too!
I thought that we should go straight to the ER, but Steve was more level headed. I called Auntie Trimble who is my go-to for anything medical and she was also a calming force. Finally spoke to two nurses and made the call to stay home. It stopped bleeding pretty quickly and she only cried for about 4 minutes so we took our cues from Joey. We made it through the night with popsicles in mommy & daddy's bed, ice water and a special movie to fall asleep to. By the morning it looked 90% better. I am always amazed the healing power little kids have.
This picture above was taken the next afternoon and it doesn't look so bad, of course...it looked worse in "real life" and any boo-boo on my baby seems awful to me!