1st Shiner...

Well, it's official. Mark and I are terrible parents. Our daughter has her first shiner. Yes, folks, Emma has a black eye. :-( So, this is how it happened. Emma, in her infinite rush to grow up, has perfected getting up on her knees, and is now also quite adept at standing up. Well, on Saturday afternoon I was sitting on the couch reading a magazine and Mark was sitting with Em in the bay window area of our living room. Emma had managed to crawl her way over to the windowsills and pulled herself up to her knees and was holding onto two of the windowsills. Then, she saw one of her chewy toys on the floor and went to grab it with her left hand. She couldn't reach it, so she bent down further and in doing so lost her grip with her right hand and fell into the windowsill. And oh my goodness did she cry! I felt so horrible! How could we have let her fall into the sill?! Her poor little cheekbone and eye turned black and blue immediately. She wouldn't let us keep any ice on it, but the swelling managed to go down on it's own, and it looks much, much better today. And I feel better today than I did on Saturday. I know she's learning how to balance and to do all sorts of new things now and she's definitely gonna have a few bumps and bruises on the way. But still...I hate when it happens. But, on a happier note, she is very, VERY good at pulling herself up to a standing position now. However, she can't seem to figure out how to get back down, no matter how many times I show her. hehehe She'll learn....