Gracie awoke in a good mood and we got to snuggle a little bit this morning and read a few books. I love mornings when we have a little extra time, they are few and far between.
Daddy dropped Gracie off at daycare and she was having a good day until she fell and cut her chin. The cut wasn't terribly deep, but it was quite wide. Would you believe Gracie didn't even cry. I picked her up at daycare and we headed to the ER. I was sure it would need a couple of stitches. We had the nicest nurses and doctors and indeed they too felt the cut needed to be secured, but not with stitches, with a Dermabond super glue. First they put a numbing gel on the chin and cut so that when they applied the glue it wouldn't hurt. The gel had to be on for 30 minutes. Then they washed out the cut and super glued it. It was pretty amazing. We have to be careful not to get any lotions, vaseline, liquids, etc. on it for 7 days. Gracie was a trooper throughout. Her chin looks terrible, not from the cut, but from the reaction to the adhesive on the tegaderm bandage they used to hold the numbing gel on. It took 4 of us to hold her down and get the wound glued. She was not happy about that at all. The nurse told me that it was totally age appropriate and they would have worried if she didn't fight it.
All this excitement took longer than expected and we got home just long enough for Gracie to eat a little something and take a nap before heading to the clinic for an appointment with the Medical Genetics physician that follows her. As much as our neurologist and our other care providers are loved by Gracie, Jeff, and I. I'm not as thrilled by this physician. It's like he is just looking for problems, almost like he wants us to have issues and problems and seemed disappointed that we were doing as well as we are. Gracie does not take to him either. She was a very happy girl to wander the office, but didn't want any face time with him at all. He asked about her verbal skills and I told him she had 15 verbal words and 25 - 30 signs. Gracie was not talkative in his office at all, another sign that she doesn't like him so much. After a while he told me that she didn't seem to be verbal. I finally told him perhaps he should ask the staff on the pediatric floor whether or not she is verbal. As we left, he did tell us to keep up the good work. We don't have to see him for another year.
Gracie was very social once we left his office. We visited Auntie Sheila for a few minutes and then were off to the ramp where mommy (yes me) forgot what floor I parked the car on . I totally didn't have a clue. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. So we wandered a couple of floors until I found it. Gracie was a sweetheart through all of this.
We gave Gracie a very quick bath tonight since she isn't to get her chin wet and she is the splashing queen. After her bath, she was playing with a toy that you put a ball into and it starts music playing. She put the ball in, would dance to the music, the music would stop and she would get the ball and put it in again. This is HUGE. Just a few weeks ago she would have nothing to do with this toy.
Gracie's other big accomplishment for the day was finding a duck in her toy box and telling me it was a "duck". Then she proceeded to say "quack".
The successes are so sweet.
Love,
Lisa, Jeff, and Gracie
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