The day before Valentine's Day, Ella was taking her coat off in the kitchen and somehow slipped and fell, landing right on her chin. She was bleeding from her chin and inside her mouth...once we cleaned her up, we saw that she had bitten both cheeks and had a big gash on her chin that needed to be stitched up. Lucy was so sweet--she immediately went to get toys and tried to make Ella happy. My mom and dad came right over to stay with Lucy and Audrey, and Greg and I took Ella (with lollipop in hand) to the hospital. Greg decided to do the stitches himself, so we got ourselves set up in an ultrasound room. Ella was pretty calm after the initial shock, but you could tell she was nervous and definitely in pain. We brought our portable DVD player and put on a movie while Greg set everything up. I unfortunately had the job of holding her down while he did the stitches--it was awful! After Greg was done, Ella stoped crying pretty quickly...she was such a trooper. She told Greg, "That was a good check up, Daddy," and then on the way out of the hospital she told him, "You did a good job, Daddy." What a sweetheart! These pictures were taken 6 days after the stitches were put in...they didn't bother her too much, and she loved picking out the band-aids to cover them up each day. You can see in the bottom picture that her scar will most likely not be visible from face-on. We were so proud of her, and I was very thankful for Greg's steady hands!
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