Milestones and Memorial Day

BEWARE: Long Post Ahead! Read through to the end if you wanna see a nice injury picture...
This little girl of ours is growing so fast that it's ridiculous! She's been hitting some milestones lately..... Her hair is now long enough to experiment on. It's fun! She is now sleeping in her "big girl bed". And she's loving it!

(She's laughing in this picture, not crying!)And she is on her way to being potty trained! I've never pushed her into going on the toilet. I just don't want to fight that battle. I have just let her do it on her own time. She has started telling me when she wants to go and then holds it til she's on the potty! It's a daily occurence now and she's getting better every day! Here she's showing her "potty treats". (Funny story: she went #2 on the toilet the other day. She looked in the toilet and told me that she put a fish in the toilet! Now every time she tells me about the fishy in the toilet. Hilarious!)

And she got stitches for the first time last night... She was crawling up the stairs at a friends house when she slipped and cut her chin open on the stairs. Yes, they were even carpeted!We waited a LONG time in the ER. Of course it was on MEMORIAL DAY so the ER was the only place open. I wish we could have paid an Instacare copay instead.... but no such luck! Zoey was happy as a clam the entire time we were waiting. Singing "Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes". And then telling me that she couldn't find her mouth. (It was numb!)Laying on the bed and watching TV with daddy.Trying to do cartwheels and somersaults on the bed. We finally had to tell her to stop because she kept making her chin bleed again. As soon as the DR came in the room she FREAKED OUT! (Understandably!) They wrapped her up in a sheet to hold her arms and legs down. I cried as they shot the numbing stuff into it and she screamed and cried for me. Then they began stitching her up. It took three of us to hold her down. She was MAD!!!! She kept screaming at all of us...

"DON'T TOUCH ME!!"

"DON'T HOLD ME!!!"

"I WANT MY ARMS OUT!"

" I WANT MOMMY!!"

The doctor and nurses were laughing about how strong and wiggly she was. Her yelling made me and Nick giggle just a bit. If she knew how to swear, believe me she'd have been screaming profanities at the top of her lungs at us. She did really well overall and they ended up putting 7 stitches in her chin.Above is what it looked like when we got home that night.

And this is the next morning. She did really well and only complained that it hurt once. Our tough little monkey... We love you baby! Needless to say, our Memorial Day was VERY memorable! And here's hoping that we don't see the inside of another ER for a very long time!