Ouch!

This is at the pediatrician's office today after Norah's accident.  My poor baby-we had just gotten back from jogging and I let Norah out to sit on the porch with me while I cooled down.  She was getting pretty excited about being outside and out of the stroller and began getting a bit silly.  She got off the bench we were sitting on and started walking over to the cement step right before the front door.  I think she intended to go sit on it, she likes to sit there, but on her way she tripped on the door mat and landed with her mouth on the cement step. I scooped her up as she began to wail and cradled her as I ran into the house.  Seeing that blood was beginning to ooze out of her mouth and lips I began yelling for my mom to come help me( I didn't know where Ben was, and I figured my mom would know what to do anyway).  We discovered two teeth marks just under her bottom lip and with the amount of blood coming from her mouth we figured we should take her to the Instacare just to be safe. Ben had heard us by then so he and I scrambled to get out the door with Norah. She was such a brave little girl and stopped crying within a few minutes.  We wasted time at the Instacare because it turns out they wouldn't accept our insurance.  So we headed over to her Pediatrician in hopes they could take care of her there. 

The doctor was able to look at her mouth for us(which Norah despised) and we made it out of there with nothing more than a bit of neosporin.  The doctor told us that she did in fact bite all the way through her lip but it was such a minimal bite that the skin still looked pretty good and to put a stitch in it would probably make it scar worse.  He did tell us that she will probably have two little scars once it heals, and I'm hoping that with the neosporin that's not true.  But I guess it's not the end of the world if it does scar.  The scrape on her chin is pretty bad too, so we'll keep neosporin on that as well.  It could have been a lot worse so I am ever so grateful that it wasn't.  I do need to work on keeping calm in stressful situations.  I've witnessed a lot of trauma and high stress situations in my profession, but it's a completely different story when it's my baby girl we are talking about.  Thankfully Ben can usually keep me in check.  I'm sure this is just the beginning of the injuries, but let's hope we keep it to a minimum.

Feel The Rythym

We began teaching Norah to dance to music when she was first able to stand.  She would bend her knees and bob up and down.  She has since learned to tap her foot along to the beat and is starting to get her arms and hands into the groove as well.  Although she still doesn't know how to clap; have you ever heard of a 15 month old child who can't clap?!  We're working on it :)

Her latest dance is not even a dance at all, she likes to sit in front of the speaker and suck her thumb while listening to the music.  She is fascinated with it; it's almost as if she thinks there is actually someone inside of the speaker.  While we have been staying at my parents house we have discovered all the tapes that I loved as a child, it's really taking me back.  And I'm glad Norah loves them as much as I do.

 

 We're working on the thumb sucking issue.  Usually she takes it out of her mouth when we ask her to, sometimes she pretends like she can't hear us though and it takes us asking her 3 or 4 times for her to remove it.  Hoping she's not still sucking her thumb as she enters High School ;)

On The Farm

Our little girl is already an animal lover.  She came to love dogs back in Spokane; we had some friends who watched her a few times for us and they had a puppy; Norah loved him.  Since then we have taught her all about animals.  She is especially fond of farm animals and on command can mimic the sounds many of them make.  We've been wanting to take her to the Zoo for a few months now but since we are too poor for that we took the next best thing, a free trip to "Wheeler Farm".  She was in heaven!  We brought in our stroller but what a waste that turned out to be as she had to be right at the fence of every animal.  Eventually we'll take her to the Zoo, but this turned out to be such a great alternative as we are still trying to help her distinguish between the roar of a lion, tiger, bear, etc.  And what sounds do the Alligator, Giraffe, and Hippos make?  Zoo Animals may look pretty cool, but Farm Animals have much better sounds.  Oh, and we didn't get any pics of the Horses, but she does an awesome impression of a horse :)

Go Cougs!

Norah is quite the cheerleader, we've taught her to say "Go Cougs"!  She actually watches the game for the most part, must have been all that time in daddy's arms as an infant, watching ESPN; she loves football :)  And yes despite what you may think, we did in fact both graduate from the University of Utah, and still bleed BLUE.  Go BYU! :)