2 days, 2 nosebleeds

I don't know if I can handle this growing up thing that my kids are doing. The older they get the more owie's they get and it's hard on poor old Mom and Dad(being Matt and I). I got home from the conference center last night late and was telling Matt about all the wonderful things that happened to find out that Maryn had a major crash on her bike. She is kind insane when she gets on her bike and wasn't so lucky this time. I guess she was riding super fast down at the church and jerked her handle bars a little bit and put her feet down to steady herself. She was able to steady herself but was still going to fast and jerked her handle bars again and flew over her bike. Matt said he heard her head hit and it was very unsettling. He was prepared to find her face shaved off as to what he explained because she skidded against the pavement with her face. When he got to her blood was coming out of her mouth and nose and forehead. THANK GOODNESS she was wearing her helmet!!!! It took the brunt of her fall.

She ended up scraping up her hip, elbow, chin, forehead, nose, has a bruise on her knee and has a nasty cut in her mouth above her teeth which are now wiggly and hopefully won't fall out. I just noticed she chipped one of her front teeth. So much for our perfect dentist visit this past week with Maryn. I checked in on her before I went to bed but didn't want to wake her so didn't see most of it until morning. Poor girl!!! I just hope her teeth don't fall out or else it will be a long time before her permanent teeth come in. Sorry no pictures folks...can't bring myself to photograph the owies. Matt said she cleaned up pretty well considering. He really thought she broke something.

And now Macey. She was playing with a toy this morning and somehow jerked her head down. She smacked her nose on the toy and got a bloody nose. Have you ever tried to put pressure on a 7 month old to stop the bleeding? Doesn't work too well. I was finally able to stick a little bit of a tissue in her nose to help stop the bleeding but it still comes out every so often. Hopefully my kids can survive the rest of the weekend. Matt wanted to take Maryn fishing tomorrow but I don't think I can handle another accident of any kind.