We arrived in Charlotte NC at about 8pm on Thursday the 7th after a great drive in. By 9:30 we were on the way to the Emergency Room.
We were sitting out in the backyard getting to know one another again and had just commented on how quickly the kids hit it off when Zack came out to tell me that one of my daughters was gushin' blood all over the place upstairs.
It seems that Jori was hit in the head 4 times by a ceiling fan. Jori was on the top bunk of her cousins bed and leaned over the side into the ceiling fan, she was hit twice in the forehead, once on top of her head in her hair line and once in the nose. The gash on the upper part of her forehead was the worst and needed to be closed. We went, at great speed, to the ER at Matthews Presbyterian Hospital in Uncle Allan's policecar where we waited for three hours to see the doc. Once we got in, he was able to glue Jori's head back together. This was a big relief as she was certain she needed stitches. Glue is much less traumatic for a little one.
To her great chagrin, Jori was told she had to keep her head out of the swimming pool. She did a great job by paddling around and tried to keep her forehead dry. On Sunday, Mother's Day we relented and let her get her forehead wet. This made her very happy and the glue stayed on and so far so good.
(Sydney, Joriann, Emmy and Jessica)
Sunday afternoon Em managed to catch one of her cousins with her face and is now sporting a little shiner on her eye. Aunt Allyson's Dad says the girls need t-shirts that say "I survived North Carolina".
Its just part of the adventure of the trip and Im sure it will make great stories for a long time. We have even begun to scheme for some future trips together. Uncle Jim and Zachary are trying to put together a camping trip to the mountains somewhere.
Despite the bumps and bruises we are having a great time. The girls are loving playing with new cousins and we are enjoying getting to know our cousins again as well.
We will get some pictures posted when we get back to boring, flat, boring, cruddy, boring Illinois.
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