getting better

It's feast or famine with me on the posting pictures front, I know!! I'm planning on posting blog entries straight for the next two weeks though, so we'll see if I can keep it up. But first, I wanted to catch you up on Natalie's eye!

Here is what it looked like the day after the stitches. Still very swollen, and bruised.
A day after that it was much less swollen, but much more bruised. She had quite a little shiner going on for a while there.
Here she is on Wednesday, right after she got the stitches out, (just getting her back into the room at the doctor's office was a struggle, but the procedure itself was pretty easy.)
A couple days after that...
And this is yesterday.
As of today the place that was stitched up is pretty much healed. We still coat it with oil a few times a day to keep it moist and heal any scarring, and Natalie endures all that attention very stoically. She still has some bruising underneath, but she's not looking nearly so bad.

She has really disliked anyone bringing attention to her eye this whole time. She gets a bit mad when people have noticed it and ask her how she is, or say she has a "boo boo." But she has learned one new word from the whole experience: "better". Our little trooper.