Learning to walk! And a trip to the ER!

So she started out the week before Thanksgiving with a few tentative steps. Fortunately, myself, Hani, Michelle, and Paul were all sitting in the living room and witnessed it. So exciting. Then the beginning of December she woke up from nap one afternoon and just started walking. Almost all of the time. She only gets 5-6 steps then falls, but she does it over and over again. Her favorite is to crawl to the bottom of the stairs, sit on the bottom step, push herself off and then walk 5-6 steps to me. She then falls crawls back to the step and does it again, at least 10 more times. She is so proud of herself! Unfortunately just one short week after her confidence has increased, she took a fall right into the corner of the wooden cube we have in the living room. It made about a 1/2" gash over the corner of her left eye. Right at her eyebrow line. She cried about 30 seconds but was soon distracted by her brother and seemed fine, except every time I put ice on it. It was obviously swelling up and I was getting nervous that even though it was little it was kind of deep. It was so tiny, but I was worried it might leave a scar if I didn't take her to get a stitch. Ugh, I really didn't want to go to the ER, but it was on her face. So off we went to the ER. Luckily it only took 2 hours and they were able to just glue it shut and put a few steri strips. What's worse than watching your child bleed? Watching your someone hold your child's arms above their head while they are being held down and getting their cut glued shut. So glad it wasn't stitches. That would have been so much worse.