it's hard being a parent...

About a week ago Laila stubbed her toe and got a little cut. She has continued to bump it a few times since then and Collin noticed yesterday that it looked a little infected. We decided it looked worse today and she should probably been seen, so since it was Sunday I took her to urgent care. We walked into the waiting room, I was grabbing the paperwork to fill out and asked Laila to go sit on the couch. The next thing I knew I heard a crash and she was screaming. She had somehow tripped, smashed her face into the wooden armrest of the couch and blood was pouring out of her mouth. I didn't panic because I knew that would frighten her more, but inside was thinking "oh my gosh, she probably just knocked out 4 teeth, or bit through her tongue...".

I picked her up, ran into the bathroom, catching the blood in my hand trying to assess the severity of the situation. At this point she is crying so hard that she is spurting blood out everywhere and half the bathroom is covered in it. Thankfully, the nurse there came to our aid with some gauze for her to bite down on and we were slowly able to clean her up and the bleeding stopped relatively quickly. We finally ascertained that she had split the inside of her lip and nothing worse. Thankfully she did not need stitches!

This is her first big, real injury so I figured it should be documented.  As the day has gone on it has gotten more swollen but she's been such a champ! She is one tough little cookie...and I guess, if something like this is going to happen, no better place than in the waiting area at an urgent care clinic!

(picture is after she was cleaned up by me and the nurse...)