Evelyn Had A Fall

It was in the middle of the morning and I had fallen sleep when suddenly I felt you slip out of my arms. And before I could react, you were on the floor and crying.

Picked you up and you calmed down quite quickly. I thought that you seemed OK. But then when I turned on the light, I saw that you had knocked yourself on the corner of my bedside table. Sigh.. another bruise? Thank goodness daddy got up and brought up some ice. So mummy put the ice on your cheekbone and then went back to sleep.

The next morning, you seemed perfectly fine, except for a little cut on the cheekbone. But now.. it is all healed. Phew..

Reminder to self: Do not sleep on the job :(

Evelyn's Black Eye

I was just starting my usual morning mad rush when Ko-ko came to me and said that you were awake. Feeling suspicious I asked if he'd woken you up as you were fast asleep less than 5 minutes before. Giving me a guilty grin he said "yes". So I told him to keep you entertained while I got ready.

After finally getting everything ready, I headed up and saw Ko-ko playing with you: him outside the cot and you standing inside the cot laughing. Then only did I realise you had one big and one small eye! Oh no.. you'd fallen in the baby cot. Just like your Ko-ko did when he was young.

The eye was swollen. Not really black yet.. So I quickly carried you down and tried to apply some ice in a towel to the eye. Of course you would not allow me to do so. No tears, but you kept pulling at the towel.

Later this evening when we got back Ah Ma wondered aloud as to whether the fall had its effect on you as you seemed very tired the whole day. Made poor daddy panic.

But no.. there was nothing wrong with you. Look at this picture daddy took, you were almost better. Just a little bruised.

Muakkss.. muakks.. poor little baby.

Yikes... Sausage Lips

What happened? Perhaps you forgot that we had the 3 steps from the dining room to the living room. Perhaps you were too happy to be back in our house and playing with your toys.. No one knows the reason, but on Monday, you decided to forget about the steps.

Ah Ma said that she's just taken her eyes off you for a while to look at the new Japan Visa forms and the next thing she knew, you'd pushed your little jeep off the 3 steps and so you landed on the living room floor. It was already 5pm by then. Yikes.. what followed? Lots of crying lo.

Poor Ah Ma was shocked. After she'd managed to calm you, she called daddy who then tried to call mummy, and he headed to the carpark to get the car. Mummy's reaction when he called was a loud "WHAT?!" that everyone sitting nearby heard the panic in my voice. That was a scary moment.

By the time we arrived home, you were already calm, with Barney playing on TV but still manja as Ah Ma was carrying you. You didn't give us your customary toothy grin when you saw us. Instead we were greeted by you with your 2 swollen lips and Ah Ma's bloody shirt. I guess when she carried you with your bleeding gums, it dirtied her shirt.

Thankfully, you could still latch and eat your dinner. By night, you were back to normal albeit having sausage lips (as dubbed by Aunty Joanne).

As of yesterday, your lips looks perfectly alright, with only a little tell-tale mark on your lower lip.