Ouch...

    My family is accident prone.  Everyone with the exception of myself and my mom have had many injuries. The most recent one occurred on Super Bowl Sunday 2013.  Let's just say, Brigitte didn't go to school on Monday. We'll get back to that story, but for now, here's the list of injuries from oldest to youngest excluding my mom and myself since we've had none. 

Dad:  My dad is very outgoing.  With adventure and danger comes injury.  My dad has done several things while skiing including, breaking his shoulder and breaking a finger.  He is a leader at my church too.  My dad works with the boys ages 12-18.  When we lived in California, my dad went on a boating trip for a week with all the boys.  On the first day, he was wake boarding, and he broke his femur.  That night, he went into surgery, and he couldn't put any weight on his leg for six whole months.  It was awful.

Katie:  Katie is very clumsy.  Most of her accidents occurred a while ago, but they will never be forgotten because they are kind of funny.  Her first injury occurred when she was three years old.  My dad, mom, Katie, and myself were all taking a walk in the mountains.  Katie tripped and fell.  You need to know that when Katie was young, her head was too big for her body.  She caught herself with her hands, and then Katie's head hit the ground because it was too heavy.  A couple of Christmases later, she tripped over a bouncy ball and broke her arm.  In third grade, she fell off the jungle gym and broke her arm again.  Most recently, on an outing with our church, we went sledding, and she slid off the sled and broke her arm for the third time.

Nick:  Nick also started his injuries very young.  The first one was when he was one.  Katie, Nick, and I were playing "Ring Around the Rosies", and he tripped over his toy and landed on the corner of the table. That night, he got his first set of stitches.  Since then, Nick has gotten stitches seven times. One included our new puppy grabbing his lip instead of the chew toy. Whoops! 

Natalie:  Natalie got her first set of stitches when she was really young.  She fell off of a bench and cut her eyelid.  That was not a good day for her.  The next time she received stitches was at Walmart.  Natalie was hiding under a metal clothing rack, and she fell and hit her head on the metal.  That led to around twenty stitches.  The cut went all the way to her skull.  Her latest injury was during our house remodel. Brigitte and she were throwing bricks (bad idea) around.  Brigitte, being three years old at the time, threw one really far and hit Natalie in the eye.  Natalie had stitches again on the same eyelid.  

Brigitte: Finally we get to Brigitte.  Brigitte has had many injuries.  Her worst one happened on her second birthday.  Nick was messing around with Brigitte a chair.  Brigitte was sitting on the arm of the chair, and my mom told them to stop messing around because someone was going to get hurt.  Right as she said that, Brigitte fell off of the chair and hit a table.  Part of her ear was ripped off and had to get sewn back on by a plastic surgeon.  Another time, Nick was pretending to jump on Brigitte's stomach.  All of a sudden, Brigitte turned blue, and my mom thought that Nick had actually sat on her and was stopping her breathing.  When she saw Nick was pretending, my mom did the heimlich maneuver and out fell 3 quarters.  Now to Superbowl Sunday 2013.  Brigitte was walking up the driveway to help Nick take out the trash, when she slipped on ice and fell flat on her face.  She ripped her lip open and received five stitches that night.  They put half of her face to sleep.  The next day, Brigitte did not go to school.  

Brigitte's latest injury. 

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