Ruth is a bit accident prone.  It's rare for more than two or three days to pass without her falling, tripping, running into something and having a knot, scrape, or black eye to show for it.  None have been so bad as her last ER trip, but it's becoming a joke just how ungraceful she is.  Britt hasn't even come close in 3 years to the damage she's done to herself since she started pulling up and walking.

He tried to make up for it this week though.  Tuesday night he was over at Memaw and Mister's house while Gary and I went to a Gator Networking dinner.  He was running around and playing with Lilli like usual and either tripped on something or ran into a wall.  Anyway, he fell on the floor and cracked his head on it pretty good.  He was crying and let Mister hold him, and ended up finally going to sleep, but he had a pretty good knot on his head after that.

The fun didn't end there though.  Wednesday, Gary was gone to an ag conference so to get all of us to Church we needed to split up.  The two kids rode with Mom, Dad and Lilli, and then Uncle Quintin and Aunt Joanna picked me up.  While everyone was in the lunchroom taking care of a few things before Church, the three kids were playing in the nursery and Britt came running, crying, and bleeding this time.  Britt says he hurt himself on a bench, Lilli says he ran into the wall.  In any event, he cut himself both under and above his eye.  He wouldn't let anyone clean it up with a wash rag or a bag of ice.  Last night he finally let me wash it up a little.  Britt may have a scar to match the one Ruth has now.

Believe or not the fun continued.  On Thursday, for the first time ever Ruth managed to fall off the hearth for the first time.  She landed flat on her face from the looks of it.  Britt wouldn't admit, it but I suspect they were fighting and pulling on a toy.  Britt probably succeeded in pulling it away from her, and she fell off.  I saw her run through the kitchen with Unca Matthew's old raccoon, then when I heard the crying and went back in the living room Britt was running off with it.  She's got a real bruise and a little cut on her forehead.  It's been the sort of week that keeps me hopping.  That's for sure!