D-OH!

We had an eventful injury day just before the New Year which made me grateful that it was still in with the old year, so as to not set the tone for this one. It would not be a tone that I would want looming. Early in the day, we stopped by my friend Josie's to borrow her vacuum since mine was clogged due to something ginormous that Melanie sucked up. Since I didn't want to wait until Jack got home, there I was seeking an alternate vacuum. Anyway, the kids were directed to stay seated while I ran to the door. As many would guess, this did not happen! I came back and the sunroof was half open with Punkin sticking her head out the top, with the other two cavorting around inside. Just then, Mel had the idea to open the sunroof all the way! Not a good idea because Punkins hands were on the glass, so they got pulled into the car. I took her screaming into Josie's (she's an RN) to see if she thought it was broken since it was all red and not so happy looking. All was well, but she filled up a ziplock bag with ice and sent us on our way.

Then... the girls and I went to go on a bike/scooter ride. Seemed innocent enough. Then as we're going down this little walkway that cut through the block, Sydney came up from behind me, ran her scooter up onto the little rock hill next to me, and was standing up on her knees watching Mel come up when it happened. Melanie was riding her bike pretty fast, came up, and ran her the *&^% over! Naturally Sydney was crying and ran up to wrap her arms around my waist. When she pulled away, I saw that the front of my white (naturally) jacket was totally blood stained! The handlebars had apparently clipped her forehead, and she was gushing blood! Needless to say, Jack met me at the urgent care where Sydney had to get some stitches. Niiiice!