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We had a great playdate with some friends last week. We actually playdate with these friends almost every week, but this time we went to their house instead of them to ours. The girls loved exploring and playing with the new and different toys. But the winner of the day was the giant trampoline in the backyard. Butterfly raced out, climbed on and went to town. Her confidence and agility is bolstered by two years of gymnastics training so she was ready to play and show off. Ladybug, still too young for the gymnastics class was much more tentative. (ironic, I know. the cautious child was fearless and the fearless child was cautious.) She eventually warmed to the task though and enjoyed playing on the trampoline as long as no one bounced her. She got more confident and had a blast. Her favorite was laying flat on her back while her sister and friend jumped around her. I was nervous about an injury, since they tend to be reckless and full of energy and not used to the trampoline but they had a great time. They raced around to the slide and swing set, upstairs to the toy room and back to the trampoline. They played soccer, splashed in the puddles and raced back to the trampoline. We dragged them away for lunch and they raced back after. It was a great playdate.

The nervously anticipated trampoline injury never came. Instead, it was when they were ballerina dancing to music that Ladybug accidentally rammed her face into the back of a chair and cut herself on a high point in the carving. She cried, we cuddled and she eventually calmed down. The cut was small and hardly bleeding but was rather deep and only a quarter inch from her eye so I called Daddy for his opinion and reluctantly took her to the clinic just to be safe. The doc agreed it needed to be closed but decided to use surgical glue instead of stitches. (If it hadn't been so close to her eye, Daddy could of done it himself with superglue.) It closed nicely, should heal without too much of a scar and like all tragic moments around here, was made much better with ice cream. Doctor's orders after all.