...and the cement won... *pics*

Wednesday started off like any other day. Right after lunch I dropped Elise off at school (she's in afternoon Kindergarten)and left to run some errands. Roughly an hour and a half later I'm wandering through Walmart when I get a call from the school nurse.

Nurse: "Mrs. Bowles there's been a bit of an accident"

Me: "What? Who...which kid??"

Nurse: "Well Elise was playing outside during recess and she tripped on the blacktop...she's bleeding...." (and then she said something about blood everywhere, something about lots of swelling...possible stitches...concussion...I don't know what else it's all pretty much a blur)

Me: "I'll be right there"

So I rush over to the school after dropping Julianna at a friends house (knowing I'm about to take Lise in to the ER...)and I walk in to the nurses office and get this....ELISE IS SLEEPING! Ummmm yep...you read it right SLEEPING!

Head Injury + Sleeping= REALLY BAD STUFF!!

So the school nurse helps me carry Elise out to the car all disoriented and while I put Liam in his car seat she helped Elise in the car. We went straight to the ER where she continued to act kind of funny and her poor little face looked so AWFUL. So after a 4 hour wait it turns out that she DIDN'T need stitches on her forehead, she DID NOT have a concussion (thank goodness!), but she DOES have a possible broken nose. There was so much swelling, bleeding and fluid in her sinuses that they couldn't make a definitive call based on the x-ray. She was still having nosebleeds yesterday!!

So we've scheduled an appointment with an Ear, Nose, & Throat doctor for Monday morning to get a final ruling on whether it's broken or not. So I guess I will have to update then. For now I'll leave you with some pictures:

BEFORE: (Feb 9, 2009)


~Day One~


~Day Two~ (see all that swelling on the bridge of her nose?!)



~Today~



So I guess we can say that Elise got into a fight with the cement playground and the cement won. But, seriously, who knew Kindergarten was so dangerous!!!!