Busted Chin

Lia's first major injury happened and it was kinda scary! Max and Lia were upstairs playing loudly in the playroom when I suddenly heard a super loud crash and then horrible crying. I raced up the stairs to find Lia facedown on the floor. I told her to stand up but when she tried to stand up her legs gave out and she fell again and her face was turning blue. So I of course jumped to the next logical conclusion that she had broken her neck and was either dying or paralyzed. Luckily Tyler was home and I yelled for him and he laid her down on the floor and checked her out and she seemed to be fine. Later I realized that she was crying so hard she held her breath and started to pass out.

Apparently Max was chasing her and grabbed her arms and tried to tie them together behind Lia's back. When she fell she had no arms to cushion her fall so she fell directly onto the hardwood floor on her chin. It almost immediately bruised and I was just relieved that it didn't split open. We iced it as good as we could that night but she was up all night long crying about the pain. We were concerned enough that we took her in to the doctors and he confirmed that she most certainly had a fracture in her chin. Luckily her jaw seemed to be fine though (with facial injuries, a jaw injury can be really really bad, like surgery and teeth problems for life bad). Her bruising was pretty intense for a few weeks (that picture does not even do it justice; it got worse before it got better) but it's healed up just fine now. And she was pretty proud of it.