Biggest Boo-Boo to date

This Wednesday, Grace and I were be boppin around in the office cleaning up her toys. Grace was going to play with Jack, Z, and Tammy for a little while, while Scott and I went to see "A Christmas Carol" play downtown.

However while cleaning up Grace fell and busted her chin. As the blood began to gush I of course went in complete panic mode. As I'm checking her over I also noticed that the inside of her mouth is bleeding, so I began to freak out even more!

As I am trying to stop the blood im also making sure she stays conscious. Don't know if I mentioned it before or not but Grace went through a spell where she would hold her breath when crying and end up passing out for a quick second. Thankfully she didn't do it to me Wednesday, she must have know that I couldn't of handled that too.

I rushed to put her in the car and we headed to the emergency room. Through my tears and panic, I soon realized that Grace was pretty much back to her normal self. She was asking for her paci, asking to watch a movie, singing frosty the snowman, and even looked at me and told me "i okay, mommy". I got myself together, consulted with my Mom and Dad, and turned around heading back for home.

Once I got home I was able to get a better look of her chin after cleaning her up a bit more. I was still concerned with the wound, seeing as how it looked like a puncture wound, and thinking it needed probably at least a stitch or two. The bleeding had stopped for the most part. It's only bled when I touched it or when grace's shoulder hit it.

After getting dressed and taking her to Tammy's, I consulted with Tammy to see what she thought. We both seemed to think Grace was okay and that I could probably take her somewhere in the morning to have it looked at. Once I made it to Scott's office, after all of the craziness of the afternoon we both decided that it just wasn't right for us to go to the play as we were already running late. With this decision I knew I would feel better going ahead and taking her to urgent care just to be on the safe side.

We got there about 15 minutes before they closed. We were the only ones there and were seen right away. They said it was a good thing to bring her because she did need something to "keep her together" and decided that the durmabond glue was a better option than stitches with the anxiety Grace was going through just from being at the doctors office.



And that was it, our biggest boo-boo to date!

*Double our Birth Weight*

In between the hussle of my Christmas shopping, last minute photography sessions, photos to edit, Christmas cards to design, and getting the house ready for a realtor to come and look at so we can put it on the market, (and many other things) I've neglected our blog. I have so much to blog about including our wonderful Thanksgiving as well as Grace's Christening.

I am thankful that blogs were invented because I can quickly type what's on the brain and add a few images here and there. I dont have to stress about my handwriting being just so or misspelling something b/c I hate mistakes in my scrapbook, I know, I'm silly. If you saw Grace's scrapbook, you'd be shocked. I swore I would keep it updated, but I'm pretty far behind, which is why I'm thankful that this blog is keeping me on track. So, before I forgot a few things, I decided to take a break from the above tasks to just take a few minutes and *twitter-blog*, as Scott likes to call it.


There's my baby girl! She looks thrilled huh? No, she just feels bad, my poor baby is sick! I took this picture this afternoon when we got back from the pediatrician. Yep, we went in for a sick visit. Grace has been very congested since last Wednesday evening and has ran a slight fever here and there, but nothing major. I can tell she isn't sleeping as good and she has had a hard time eating because she can't breathe well with all of the congestion. This morning she just seemed worse so called first thing and took her in for a doctors visit. (Out in the rain. Pouring. Down. Rain.) The verdict: Grace has lots of congestion (duh!) and the beginnings of an ear infection. So we have some antibiotics to help clear that up and we'll be back at the doctors in 2 weeks for a follow-up. The doctor also prescribed a Vick's Plug-in and lots of TLC! :) The doctor also said we needed to fatten her up some and recommended that I give her cereal in another bottle during the day, not just at night. So we're going to try adding that into our routine tomorrow!

HEMANGIOMA UPDATE: The day before Thanksgiving we went to Duke for a follow-up dermatologist appointment. We hadn't been in two months so our nurse, Roseanne, and Dr. Bellet were excited to see Grace and how much she'd grown and developed! Both were extremely happy to see how well Grace's hemangioma looked! They increased her dosage of propranolol to 1.01ml (from .09ml) because they hadn't changed the dosage since she started the medication back when she was just 8lbs. On this particular day (11.25.09) she weighed 14lbs. 2oz. (just 2oz. shy of doubling her birth weight). Dr. Bellet said that we'll continue Grace on the medication until she's 9mo. to a year of age and then we'll gradually take her off the medication. Once she's off the medication we'll assess if we need to do more laser of the hemangioma as a whole, or what, if anything, will be our next step.

I hope you all are staying dry today, it sure is nasty out!
xoxo- Meg