Falling.......

So if you've read any of my previous posts then you know how excited I was to get Tally up and walking! She's too heavy to carry around anymore, I needed some freedom. :) I was so excited when she started! Probably a week ago she started getting really good at it and now she walks everywhere she can. No one told me that the problem with having your child start walking is that you have to watch them fall over and OVER! Tally trips over her feet alot making it horrible to watch because most of the times she ends up hitting her head. My mom says this is just an awful stage that kids go through trying out their new trick but man do I hate it! I hope she gets over this falling stage soon. Her mom can't take it!

The Big Fall

Normally I wouldn't flaunt this story but it's Christmas and too many people are going to see her for me to not "come clean!"

So last Tuesday Ryan, Tally and I were all downstairs. Ryan and I were golfing on the Wii has we'd done for the last couple nights or so. (P.S. Ryan would like it to be known that his fitness age is now 28) Tally has a new found love of sitting on the couch like a big girl. She's very good at getting up and sliding down backwards, which is the right way.

So Tally was on the couch and there were some plastic tongs in the window sill. (Ryan's step mother Carol had left them from a birthday dinner we had for Tally and they are coming after Christmas for a few days so they were out to remind us to give them to her) Thought I would clear up the rumor that we keep tongs in our window sill. :) So Tally got them, and she was sitting on the couch playing with them. Ryan and I both knew she had them (which makes this whole story worse). This time because her hands were full Tally tried to get off the couch front ways. As she fell off the couch the tongs grabbed her nose and forehead, and the side on her forehead then made it's way down her cheek. Needless to say she was cut pretty bad nose, forehead and cheek. She was bleeding and looked a mess. Ryan grabbed a wash rag and some water and we cleaned her up and added Neosporin but her "ouchies" still looked horrible.

After four days now Tally is looking much better. Her cuts are still there and still noticeable but they are healing very fast.

*sigh* It feels good to come clean. For a while I've been trying to get away with just saying "she fell of the couch" when people asked about her face, but some out spoken people began to pry "is your couch made of nails" "do you have concrete floors in your basement." So there's the truth. No nails, no concrete. Just a 13 month old girl trying to get off the couch while battling plastic tongs.