While barely there, her hair makes a statement.
See for yourself.
On top of this, one of her favorite things is to have her ningertails painted. She'll ask for a color, usually pink, and then glitter on top.
And if you noticed the grapefruit sized bruise on her head its from when she darted around the banister on the stairs and clipped it, knocking her out flat on her back. It scraped the skin, but didn't break it. The impact was lined up perfectly with a strong blood vein, which did rupture on impact and the bleeding caused a golf ball sized mass of blood under her skin, to swell within a 5 minute window.
I rushed her to our home, where Collete - a nurse- took a look at it. She helped determine that we would be okay, and to not go to a clinic or ER.
Brooklyn barely cried, I think from shock, and instead just wouldn't let me put her down. We kept a close eye on her, and she did great, falling asleep easily and the swelling went down within an hour.
However all that backed up blood left a bruise the size of Texas. Its got to be nearly a week old now, and you can still see it.
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| If she just isn't the cutest. Notice how full the tub is? I got after her for not turning the water off. She said this to me in not so many words: "What the big deal?" |
One last note. We've had to start locking the kid in the room to keep her from constantly coming out and getting into stuff, like, jam.
When she's finally asleep, we unlock it.
Mean parents, we know.
But she knows the deal. She gets two tries and if she comes out, then we lock it. A few times, this has worked well.
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