A Trip to the E.R.

We have been waiting for the day that we'd need to take Paige to the e.r. and today was the day. It wasn't that bad, though. The girls & I were eating dinner early to get ready for gymnastics tonight. Taite & I were still eating while Paige was running laps through the kitchen, dragging a sheet with her. She tripped on the sheet, fell down & bit her lip. She has had plenty of busted lips in her 2 yrs., but this one seemed worse - I got a quick look right after it happened & the inside looked pretty "opened". There was, of course, a lot of blood, but she was good about letting me keep ice on it.

Anyway, I called Lewis & we decided to take her somewhere to have it looked at. We decided to go to a new stand-alone emergency room in Pearland. It was great. We walked in & we were the only ones there. By now, by the way, Paige was bouncing off the wall (like normal). You wouldn't have thought anything was wrong with her. We literally walked in & went back to see the doctor within about 5 minutes.

The long story, short is that her lip is fine. She didn't need any stitches. He said the bottom lip heals well. She will live. Like Lewis said, now she's in the "system" there WHEN we need to take her back! ;)

The funniest thing about the whole ordeal was seeing her lying on the hospital bed! I wish we could've gotten a picture. Here's our little 2 year old, lying there (happy & actually STILL, by the way), with a miniture blood pressure cuff on her arm, a thermometer under her arm & that pulse thing on her finger. It was too funny. She was a little miniature e.r. patient.

While I'm talking about Paige, I have to include a video. I have more that I'd like to add later. Last night, she was singing songs to her Mema on the phone. She won't usually 'perform' for the camera, so this was a great opportunity to tape her (while she was focused on singing to Mema). Take a look....