Last Day of Kindergarten

Although Lila was attending "fake kindergarten" this year, I still found myself choked up on the last day of school.  She changed so much over the school year.  It is hard for me to watch her grow into a school aged girl.  She looks so much taller, acts older and knows more than we ever dreamed she would learn.  It wasn't a perfect year but when we do the math, all signs point to success.

Here she is at her end of the year party and on her last day.

Savannah walked Lila Grace to class for the last time.  They will not attend the same school next year.  It kind of makes me sad.

Stitches

Seems like forever ago, but a it was only 12 short days ago that Miss Lila went flying into a door jamb. She wasn't doing anything she shouldn't have been or even being careless.  She merely caught her toe under an area rug and, with her momentum (she was running), went right into the door jamb.  My heart still sinks when I think about it. 

I picked her up and saw the blood.  I know heads bleed a lot so I reassured her and told her that I would hold her until it stopped hurting.  I pressed a thick towel on her wound and cradled her like a baby.  Quickly, the tears were gone.  Since I hadn't really seen the wound, I decided to pull the towel away and that is when I realized it was soaked and my sweatshirt was pretty saturated too.  I knew the ER was in our future.  When I stood up to get the ball rolling, Lila became quiet, still, and very unlike herself.  It drove a wave of panic through both Alex and me but we put our brain before our emotions and knew that she couldn't be seriously injured.  I will say the blood was unbelievable.  Ten times more than what we saw from Adeline's stitches on her eyebrow.

After five and a half hours in the ER (she was fast tracked but it still took forever), Lila was stitched - 12 of them to be exact.  It was a deep and wide wound which made stitching a little more tricky.  She was so patient and brave.  Not a tear nor a moment of resistance came from her body.  Somehow, she just sucked it up and let them stitch her.  I still don't know how a five year old just lays down for something like that, especially when it is our so called Drama Queen.

The silver lining goes on and on but the more important points are this. . .

We got to spend five undivided hours with Lila Grace.   She was brave, happy and pretty darn funny with her head bandaged and princess garb.

Her wound could have been right on her cheek and instead rests in her hairline.  It will definitely scar. 

They didn't shave her hair thank goodness!

No concussion.

Lila was proud of herself (she isn't our most confident kid so this is a big deal!)


The day in pictures. . .

Her wound was actively bleeding for hours which required lots of unique bandages in the waiting room. We had a very attentive triage nurse.  Such a blessing.