Today Maddie got to take her second trip ever to the ER. Maddie, Macy, and I were just about to leave to go to Target to get a few necessities (bubbles being the most important, as anyone with toddlers knows) when she fell on our tile and bit her tongue really hard. I wasn't watching so I'm not sure exactly how she fell. She just got new orthotics and bigger shoes to go over them last week and I think she is still getting used to them, so that may have been the cause. I just heard a thump and then she started crying really hard, and when I picked her up she had blood dripping out of her mouth. After cleaning her up and calming her down a bit I looked in her mouth and found a cut across the middle of her tongue that looked about half an inch deep. (Don't worry, I will spare you the photos.) A call to the doctor told us we should take her in to the ER to get it checked out. These are the situations that I live in great fear of occurring while I am home alone with the girls because I never really know what to do. I am not particularly calm and rational in emergency situations. Somehow, though, I am very blessed because they almost always seem to happen when Matt is either home or arriving home soon.  Today he had a dentist appointment and was just finishing up when Maddie fell, so when he got home he gave her loves and then we all packed up to go to the ER. After waiting about 3 hours to be seen, the doctor told Matt (I had to leave earlier to get to my dentist appointment) that there was basically nothing he could do, and just to feed her pudding and jello for a few days. Lovely. Luckily our health insurance covers our ER visits 100% (unlike Maddie's first trip to the ER, complete with ambulance ride, which is a story for another day) so we won't have to actually pay for the pleasure of an incredibly long wait at a completely uneventful ER that was full of bratty kids (not mine, of course ;) ) and a tv blaring Jerry Springer.

After such a rough day, Maddie got the princess treatment this evening. She kept touching her tongue and then crying more so we had to really distract her with fun stuff. She got to watch Signing Time with Daddy, do lots of coloring and play-doh, have an extra long bathtime with Macy, and snuggle with Momma to go to sleep. Hopefully after all that she will wake up to a much happier tomorrow!