It had to happen some time to one of them: the first "big hurt" of childhood. The image is of Sammy in the emergency department about 25 minutes after getting her upper lip sutured earlier this morning. She's doing fine now but, understandably, very tired.
Isaac Newton said "a body in motion tends to remain in motion unless acted upon..." by the upper lip. She fell while running across a part of the home she's been in daily since she could walk. Except last night she stopped herself with her face. It looks almost inconsequential until you notice it crosses from the face onto the lip itself. So we got to meet the friendly plastic surgeon.
As a parent, you know someone is going to get hurt sooner or later. But you expect (at least we did) that it would be something dramatic like getting hit with your first baseball or falling in the park, not a measly fall in the kitchen.
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