Mertins Family

Mertins Family
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Saturday, August 4, 2012

The BIG fall

On Friday, July 13th (yes ... Friday the 13th) I took the girls to Alissa's house for dinner because Chris was at the Brewers game.  We had a good time there and the kids were all so good and played really well.  At the end of the evening, the kids went outside to play.  Max and Lauren were on Max's motorized ATV and so Mackenzie decided to ride Max's bike while they rode around.  Mac has been able to ride a bike without training wheels since an early age 4, so this bike with training wheels was a bit too small for her.  She went down their sidewalk and was going around their court when the bike went a little too fast for her and she totally wiped out.  Mark ran over to her and checked to make sure all her teeth were still there.  She hit her face on the rocks that were on the ground.  She scraped up her nose, got a really bad bloody nose, scraped her chest (b/c she had a tank top on), and scraped her knee/foot.  When Mark brought her into the house it looked like she got shot - that is how much blood was on her.  She showed me her face and it really didn't look too bad.  This was just an accident and she has since then healed beautifully.  The pictures are of the first three days.  We hit the pool with a TON of sunscreen on the wound for two weeks.  We also have put vitamin E and Mederma on it everyday since.  You can hardly tell it happened.
This is from early in the evening ... Lauren is obsessed with  "Baby Josie"

High-light of her day ... feeding baby Josie

The night of the crash ... at home and cleaned up

The morning after the crash ... starting to scab up
Two days later ... scab is there and it looked yucky!
As of August 1st ... face is all fixed (oh and tan too).  No scar at all!!!

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