Split chins and splints

I don't think my daughter is capable of just exploring with out injury as of late...

She has been to our local Urgent care twice in the last month.  Once for a split chin and just today to splint her right hand.  Silly girl has to do everything above and beyond.  Oh and I mean that literally!

In her two little years she has gone to the ER for a split toe by dropping a can on it, drinking white out prompted a call to poison control etc.. She is the child that gets into locked places and can climb the walls to get whatever she thinks is up there.  Prompting those people without children to look badly on us as parents in their ignorance and encouraging those parents with children like ours to laugh and share what their child did last week.  And to be honest I love those stories because it reminds me that no matter what mischief my little girl gets into someone has already been there done that :-)

So this months activities so far have included...

At the beginning of the month she just had to get something off the half wall in our entry.  She was determined as only our little Miss can be.  So when, surprise, we heard the thump we weren't entirely surprised.  What did surprise us was the blood...lots and lots of blood.  She had managed to get what she wanted and in an effort to keep it had landed on her chin.  I had no idea your chin could bleed like that :-(  within minutes she had calmed down and was ready to go to the urgent care.  Where she was a model patient.  Showing everyone who would look at her owie and giving them a running babel of what transpired for the wound.  She held perfectly still as they glued it shut and used her please and thank you's to everyone who helped.  They awarded her with stickers and a ball.  She felt like the queen!  She spent the next week showing everyone her owie with great pride and pulled all the glue off her chin awarding herself with a little scar.  nice....

Today was very different.  In fact today was her biggest self injury yet.  Kids love to play in closets....they are little cubbies of adventure!  Only today my very flexible little miss grabbed the door handle and the door hinge at the same time.  Yes you may cringe now...because you can imagine what happened next.  She leaned back with the door nob closing the hinge on three fingers of her right hand.  It was one of those cries that send the whole household to run and see what is wrong.  I honestly was afraid she had crushed the first joints on her fingers....but thank God that in his infinite wisdom little people have very soft bones with lots of cartilage!  But what made this injury even more unique was that she couldn't stop crying, she is my ubber tough girl so crying from pain is not her thing.  So off we rushed to the Urgent care....still crying....and crying and crying.... it was so sad :-(  The compassionate staff tried everything to help but no one can rush the benefits of Motrin and Tylenol.   We waited for an hour to get x-rays because the guy before us had 2 broken legs...we prayed for him.  At this point it doesn't look like she has any broken bones, praise the Lord!  But what she does have is supper bruised and wounded fingers.  In an effort to help her heal and not re-injure her fingers she is in a hand splint with some pain meds.  We'll find out for sure later this week if anything is broken.

I think of all her escapades and am amazed that we haven't had more injuries.  I'm so thankful that she is a little girl who always wonders why, how and what.  She loves to learn and be and do.  Life with her will never be dull!  I think of my friends with "busy" children and realize how incredibly blessed we are to have such active children.  Yes they may give us a few heart attacks but the laughter, joy and adventure they bring are well worth it.

So we'll keep the splint on as long as I can keep it on her ;-) and then we'll be off on our next adventure in life.  So cheers to you parents and God bless!