Mission: Bandaid.

UGH I just typed up a long post and added a link and it messed up the whole thing and deleted it.

Annnyway.


Not much new to update on the baby - no new symptoms, other than I feel fat. No new cravings, unless you count anything that's not good for me.

But, there is some new news on the Liz front. Seems my little monkey reached new heights last night. While I was talking to Jay as he was getting ready in our room, Liz decided to play acrobat in the bathroom.

(*warning* If blood bothers you... don't read ahead.)

She climbed up on the toilet, reached the 5 foot shelf and grabbed daddy's razor. Proceeded to get down, take a chunk out of her middle finger with it, and then smear blood all over the bathtub. Who needs bath crayons when you have your own blood? So daddy walks in, and there she is, nice dress covered in blood, bathtub covered in blood - no tears. Not so much as a peep out of her. (Typical behavior when she knows she's doing something she shouldn't... she'll stay quiet even if she's hurt.) Jay calls to me and says "Hey Jess, come here... but don't freak out, lizzy got a little cut but I don't think it's that bad since she's not crying." I'm glad he was there b/c I definately would have freaked out at the sight of my 2 year old with blood dripping down her arm, smeared all over the tub and her holding the razor as evidence to her crime. My heart pounding I realized, little cuts can bleed bad and if she's not crying, it really musn't be that bad... I turned on the water and rinsed her hands off and that's when we saw the gaping hole in my childs middle finger. Not even stitches would help this mess... there was nothing to stitch back... it was just... a hole! Seriously, all the padding from her middle finger was gone. And once the peroxide hit it, well then the tears started. We had the hardest time getting it to stop bleeding... she kept soaking through the towel we were using to apply pressure. (At this point she stopped crying through, juice and cartoons distracted her while we were busy working to stop the blood.) After 15 minutes I braved a bandaid, only to see blood dripping out of both sides of the bandaid and down her wrist 10 seconds later... so back to the pressure... another 15 minutes later it finally subsided enough that we were able to keep a bandaid on it without soaking through.

Aside from not using her hand much today (only b/c the bandaid is too busy being shown to everyone we meet... princess bandaid anyone?) she's fine. Changing the bandaid is only difficult due to the fact that it takes her 10 minutes to choose which princess she wants to wear next. She could careless about the cut... it's clean, but definately a hole. Who knows how long this will take to heal. Neosporin and bandaids will have to do the trick unless it get's infected... I'm not going to take her in and have a doctor poke and prod it if it's not necessary.

Anyway, she might have a small scar from this when it's all said and done. Crazy kiddo. Just when i think my house is completely kid proof she goes and get's ahold of something 5 feet in the air. *sigh* She is a handful these days...