So Kyrie was running around at Grandma Lisa’s yesterday, and she tripped over some raised ground around their fireplace. She hit her face on the tile, and she had a goose-egg about the size of a marble (the smallest one lately) underneath her eyebrow. She had a purple eye when she woke up this morning. It looked like she had on purple eyeshadow. Fortunately it looks more normal colored already.

Update: 4:30 PM, added bloody lip.

So Kyrie decided to try to climb in the playpen today, like she often does, but she fell backwards, gashing her head open. Fortunately, it was on the back of her head, and it wasn’t too bad, but there seemed to be quite a lot of blood for bleeding less than a minute. Of course, all her hair was covered in blood and the back of her shirt had a bunch of blood on it.

We’re going to a Spokane Indians baseball game tonight, and I’ll be sure to bring my baseball glove to ward off any flying baseballs. I just wonder if we shouldn’t bring that helmet too.

Kyrie has gotten so many head injuries this summer, it’s ridiculous. Fortunately, there’s been only one trip to Urgent Care (the time she fell at the park and cut her head open). Last night, she hit her head on the corner of a bathroom wall, producing a huge goose egg (though not the biggest of the summer). A little arnica and ice, and by morning, it was looking much better. Just a bit after I got up, Kyrie decided to jump on the bed with Noelle. Well, like the monkeys jumping on the bed, she received a head injury on the SAME SPOT. So that wasn’t pretty. Then, a bit after lunch, I received the news, “Kyrie was hit in the head with a metal pipe.”

*sigh* I think I might have to take up Rachel’s advice and put the kid in a helmet full-time.