Not impressed

5years 99days 

I wait excitedly at the gate every afternoon, looking forward to meet her. She's normally at the back and I see her little face search through the mamas until she spots me and grins. Today, not so much. Today the teacher brought her out first and came straight to me. My little pickle had a bloodied lip, with a blood soaked bandage to it. She'd got herself caught in the cosy coupe car at tidy up time, fallen on her face, bit quite deep into both the top and bottom of her lip. The teacher said she'd not even cried. It probably frightened me more actually than if she were crying her little heart out. But she was just silent. Her top front tooth has taken a bashing and is now wobbly. It felt appropriate to cancel her swim lesson this week!

She sat very quiet the whole way home. She put her jammies on and was just settling as we got an invite to go for a play with friends. She wanted to go and I thought it would be a good distraction. She had fun, played a few games, but also was very clingy and a bit sad for herself, so we headed home after not that long. By the time I took this photograph, it was already looking a lot better (though it is a bit worse than it looks here, actually) but she said her tooth was hurting more than her lip now. She managed to eat some soft tea, but couldn't manage the nice crunchy tiger bread baguette I'd bought earlier in the day as a treat. She's asleep now, bless her socks.