My "Not-So" Graceful Little Girl

Pictures:
* A happy Brooke after her table incident - look at that poor head?!
* Note the busted, swollen gum from incident #2

Unfortunately for Brooke, she inherited my "lack of" gracefulness,which isn't such a great trait when learning to walk. She has been walking for about a month now and is a pretty good walker but the least steady of the three. Last Tuesday night, my parents were over and the babies were all dancing and walking around, swaying to music. Brooke just did a little spin, lost her balance and hit her head on the coffee table leg. It turned purple right away and a lump immediately popped out. She was crying hard for a few minutes, then hopped on the rocking doggy (pictured above). What a trooper!

Then on Thursday night, I let the babies out of the car in the evening so they could walk into the house by themselves. This was the first day that I did this and of course, wished I hadn't. Brooke was first and she caught her shoe on the mat and fell forward onto the concrete step into the house. She just cried for a few minutes and was fine. When we got in the house, I noticed her putting her hands in her mouth with a little blood, so I checked it out. Yikes! Her gum was cut open, right above her new front tooth that had come in that morning along with a new bruise for the other side of her head! Long story short, I took her to the dentist the next day and he said everything looked fine...thank goodness!

She now has three teeth with a fourth on they way. They are all top teeth, we're still waiting for the bottom ones to come in. I'll have to get my sweet little girl enrolled in ballet as soon as she's able...gracefulness can be learned, right?!