Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Holy fat lip and missing tooth Batman!

Emily was outside with Dan over the weekend while her brothers were sleeping. She wanted to teeter totter, but Dan was way too big to be her teetering partner, so he was using his foot to make his end go up and down. Emily was having great fun bouncing up into the air when Dan would push his end down, but at one point, she bounced too hard, lost her balance and fell forward, face first, into the bar. She had two FAT lips and a knocked out front tooth (which, thankfully, had already been very loose). Lots of blood, lots of tears... We got her cleaned up and calmed down relatively quickly and I took her picture so she could remember her fat lips. Of course, I never went back to look at the pictures until just now to realize that they really DO NOT do justice to the upper lip. Her lower lip was pretty well back to normal by bedtime, but the upper lip, on her left side, was HUGE. Very thick from inside to outside, and was the whole length of that half of her mouth. When she smiled, it never even moved. A few days later, it's still visibly puffy, but TONS better than before!

This was taken about 15 minutes after she got hurt
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This one was taken about a half hour later (she looked so sweet sitting there snuggling her Lambie), and you can see her bottom lip is already looking smaller, and the top lip is starting to get bigger
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And this is her just a few minutes ago. You can see the discoloration where it bruised a bit, and you can see how it makes her upper lip lopsided because it's still pretty thick and doesn't move as well as it should.
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10 comments:

Kaci said...

OWIE!! I hop that got you some extra ice cream Em! :)

Cheryl said...

Cute little girl that she is smiling through the pain! LOL! Ummm...isn't this the incident that Jodi told me about yesterday (you IM'd her with a wonderfully hilarious story as told to you by her school teacher)?? No more said...LOL!!!!!!!!!

Cattigan said...

You really have to stop beating the children and blaming Dan!

Kristina said...

Ow. Ow. Ow. Did the tooth fairy give her double for the pain she endured to get that tooth out?? Ow. Ow. Ow.

Betsy Hart said...

Poor EM!!! Give her extra hugs for me!!

Betsy Hart said...

I totally couldn't remember if I commented on your blog, so I had to come check, and yes I did! LOL!

Anonymous said...

Poor Emily Grace.
Auntie loves her : )

Valarie said...

Ohhhh, ouch!!! I bet that hurt! Mine would have been milking it to get as many popsicles as they could!

Jodi said...

Owie! Poor thing. I hate it when my kids get hurt like that. She looks like she's being very tough about the whole thing.

What a way for her to get some tooth fairy money. Whew!

Mom said...

Hey at least she is smiling mine would have been in tears in every picture!