Lucy's Luck

Approximately 1 week into summer vacation, Lucy came running in the door with tears in her eyes, and her arm looking like this:

 Now, you and I both know that that is NOT what arms are supposed to look like.  (Unless you are Harry Potter and Professor Lockhart removed all the bones from your arm instead of mending them.  And we are definitely all muggles here.)  Obviously it was pretty darn painful, though, because Lucy fainted as my friend was helping her out to the car while I was getting Eli in his carseat.  Scared the snot out of me, as I've never seen anyone faint before.  After leaning back in the car with a cold washcloth on her head for a few minutes, she came around and we went to the doctor.  We ended up seeing the doctor I'm not too fond of and I just prayed it would be an okay experience.  I wasn't even shooting for great, just okay.  And it was okay.  So, Lucy got herself one of these babies:

 Fortunately, she was old enough to keep her wrist pretty still, so the doc let her keep it in a brace for 4 weeks instead of casting it.

Just a few weeks later, we were getting ready for our trip to SD when Luc told me her throat was hurting a ton.  After another quick trip to the doctor, we found out she had strep throat.  Antibiotics picked up in time for us to leave the next day.

On the way to SD, we stopped at a fabulously fun Fairfield Inn in Gillette, WY.  They had a pool with 2 waterslides, a lazy river, and a kid's splash area.  After coming down one of the slides, Lucy had her eyes closed and ran into the step.  With her nose.  Yowzers.

 No blood, but a pretty painful looking bruise on the bridge of her nose and around her eyes. 

Once we got to SD, she had a bad couple of days until the antibiotics really kicked in.  Despite that, she was out in Gma and Gpa's pool every second that I would let her.  2 days before we came back, she got to take her brace off.  1 day before we came back, she finished the antibiotic.  1 day after we got back, she started complaining that her ear was killing her.  Trip #3 to the doctor revealed she had a pretty bad case of swimmer's ear.  6 days on an antibiotic eardrop helped clear that one up.

So we were sitting at dinner the other day and Lucy asked, "Mom, how come we have hardly been swimming at ALL this summer?"  Ummmmmmmm.