Today is Chloe’s fifth birthday! We spent the morning in town running some errands, and so I didn’t have time to make her a cake. We had a dentist appointment, and we went to the toy store. We went to McDonalds for lunch, and the last errand we ran before coming home was to pick up some plants to put in our vegetable garden at a nursery just down the street from where Kyle works. I stopped to pick Kyle up from work first so he could be with us when we decided what we were getting for the garden. We got lots of plants, tomato plants, onion, rhubarb and more. The kids also picked out a cute bug garden decoration, then it was time to head home. So I took Kyle back to his place of work so he could get his car, and I headed home with the kids.
After getting home, and unloading the kids from the van, I got all the plants unloaded and set on the porch. The kids had taken some of the other purchases into the house, and began playing. We hadn’t been home very long when I heard an awful sound, and Chloe began crying frantically. It turns out that Lydia was swinging the bug garden decoration around and one of the bug’s wings cut Chloe right between the eyes!
Here is the bug, with it’s nice, thin wings (which are made of metal btw).
Sigh. I really didn’t want to take her in to get stitches. I was afraid that stitches might leave an even bigger scar, than would be left if we tried to take care of it ourselves. So I superglued the cut closed, or at least I tried my best to glue it closed without gluing my fingers to her face. The bug decoration went into the front yard, since after it had been used to cause an owie like that I just couldn’t put it in the backyard. I just know that the kids would have just played with it some more when I let them out to play. Then after Kyle got home we proceeded with celebrating her birthday.
