Maya's Ouchie

I'm starting to think my girls have formed a club - the "have-to-have-an-injury-that-gives-mom-and-dad-a-heart-attack" club. Maya seems to have joined the club at a much younger age :( Sunday evening we were exploring all the new flowers in the park behind our house. The girls had tried to run on numerous occasions and we told them to stop since they weren't wearing appropriate footwear. Maya very innocently took three fast, jogging steps to catch up with Makenna, her feet got tangled up underneath her and her face caught the concrete. The only real injuries were to her face... she even "skidded" on the concrete with her face. I know that's too much information, but her mommy and daddy had to watch it and couldn't get there in time to stop it. It was horrible. She looks absolutely horrible. She came up with a face full of blood :( Forunatiely the bleeding stopped very quickly and there were no gaping wounds so that meant no stitches. She basically just scraped off a few good layers of skin.

After the fact, I'm just thanking God for the small stuff. This is really a small thing in the whole big picture... no major damage was done, it's just a minor inconvenience. We praise God for protecting our baby and making sure more serious damage wasn't done to her head or face.


This is just minutes after we got her cleaned up. Mommy knew she was going to be okay when she asked for ice cream right away :)


Her ouchie is mostly on her nose, but goes up on her forehead and upper lip as well. After the accident she kept reapeating "Maya fall down - go boom! Maya fall down - go boom!"


Snuggles with Daddy always make it better... oh and a little Blues Clues and ice cream with sprinkles :) We probably would have bought her a car at that point if she would've asked.


Maya's ouchies the day after her fall. Still not looking great. Everywhere we go she gets sad, pity looks :( She's still one of the cutest kids I know!


But she's still smiling! Gotta love my "sweetie-heart"!