Mia's poor nose!

I swear that kids who have dads that are doctors are the ones that are hurt the most. So I guess that that means that all of my kids will have to deal with a lot of pain!

Case in point: The girls were walking to the bus stop Wednesday morning and Hannah and Whitney decided that they should run. Mia, being the competitive child that she is (after all she is a Gardner!), took off first to get a head start on her older, taller sisters. It was going well until she tripped. It had to have been a pretty amazing skid, because she had scratch marks from the top of her forehead, proceeding down to the tip of her nose and didn't stop until it hit her mouth. They came right back home because the scratches were so bad that there was actual blood dripping from the scratches on her nose. I was able to get her cleaned up (keeping in mind that cleaning sensitive "owies" no small feat) and she wanted a band aid. I put one on her nose... but spent the next half hour trying to convince her that it looked worse to have the band aid than not. She finally made it to school and stayed the entire day. Although she did take a few trips to the nurse and kept telling her teachers that it hurt when she would do "this (scrunch up nose and face)".

Here she is one day later. (Photo by Hannah)

It doesn't look as bad as it did yesterday, but Richard is still stressed out that "it might scar". I don't know if that is the worried father, pessimist, perfectionist, or plastic surgeon in him (probably a bit of everything). I am sure she will be fine and racing her sisters just as soon as they offer.