Wednesday, February 13

I fell down!


This past weekend was our Stake Conference. (For those of you who don't know- Stake Conference is a meeting that all of the congregations in an area meet twice a year.) Since we live two hours from the Stake Center, we decided to go stay with my family for the weekend. We drove down to Vidor and the kids were having a great time. My sister, Marianne and her baby came and we decided to go to a resale shop. We left the babies and kids, etc. for about an hour. I called Johnny from the store and he said Ella got hurt and we needed to take her to the ER. ?!??!? I drove up to my mom's house, Marianne got out, Johnny loaded Ella up and I gave my mom Bryn's bottle. Since I wasn't there Johnny told me what he thinks happened... No one was watching at the time... Ella was playing with a little metal doll chair by the back French doors. Somehow she was trying to stand on it and fell on the tile floor, and got cut right under her left eyebrow, about an inch wide and pretty deep. My uncle Pete was there and helped Johnny bandage her eye and stopped the bleeding. (Most of my family has weak stomachs for this sort of medical attention- sorry Sarah if you're feeling whoosy!)

We waited for a while at Baptist Hospital, but the Physician's Assistant that was there was really nice and gave Ella five stitches. A male nurse helped hold Ella's head and Johnny and I held Ella still, while she was wrapped in a sheet. She screamed and cried and as we tried to comfort her, she yelled, "I fell down!" So pitiful! Neither of us cried, we just felt so bad for her. I didn't have my camera with me, but my phone has a camera, so I was able to snap a few shots for keepsakes. (Is that okay to say- maybe not keepsakes, but so we'll remember...)


For a few days afterward, she would say out of the blue, "I fell down". She's okay now. Only, she won't climb onto anything without having help to get down. She's much more cautious now and nobody blames her! Luckily our kids aren't accident prone- hopefully they'll stay that way!

It was a fun visit otherwise... We loved seeing Marianne and Ethan and my parents and Rachel and their dog Little Jerry and everybody else!


Here's a picture of Ella from this morning, she was making a mad face- but it didn't last long. I'm taking her to Dr. Packard's office to get the stitches removed tomorrow.

2 comments:

  1. i never grew out of being clumsy...so watch out...

    marianne and ethan look great

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  2. Aww, poor Ella. Although, it's good she's being more cautious. Gabi hasn't had any accidents yet so she's not humble enough to understand being cautious. In fact, I just found her doing front flips off the couch!

    Ethan is a doll, by the way!

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