Miss Gemma

 Oh, how we love our Gemma! She is sweet and darling and has the cutest voice. With that voice she says some funny stuff. She was being pretty feisty in these pics.

For the last few months she usually wakes up and says she's either: itchy or has hurts on her body.

I was starting to think she was a hypochondriac. Now we're starting to notice she may have allergies to foods like pineapple. Her face gets all red and puffy. 

If you look closely on her nose those are scabs. We were walking home from school one day and she tripped and fell on her nose and scraped it up. When I first picked her up it was a little red so I dismissed it and how much she was crying. The next day it was more red and beginning to scab. I felt so bad for dismissing it the day before.

 A few days later we were in her room and I was trying to do her hair on the changing table in front of the mirror, where we had done it lots of times before. She was happily talking to me when she tapped the mirror and it came crashing down. I tried to move her but when the mirror stopped falling her foot was under part of it and the one sharp corner had gotten her toe.

OUCH!! Again! It was sad because the baby was sleeping and Jordan had to stay over lunch for quartet rehearsal. I didn't know what to do. I called mom and she said she was helping grandma but could help me later. I didn't want to drag her, sleeping Lottie and Kodee to the ER if it didn't need stitches. I finally sent this pic to Jenny who sent it to Richard. He said to come in a couple hours to the office. I couldn't wait that long, what if it kept bleeding? The bleeding did stop and we made it to the office a while later. Gemma wasn't even acting like it hurt that much. Thankfully, it didn't need stitches. Richard just put on really super strong bandaids with ointment on them. Those only lasted for two days or so. That didn't stop Gemma from playing outside without shoes on. 

It's healed up pretty nicely, although now that we have seen the scar I would have asked Richard for a stitch in the middle of the cut. It's a pretty big scar. Good thing kids are so resilient!