So last night Laelia was sitting by her puzzles when she begged, “Mama hold me!” I was busy on the computer so asked her to scoot over closer to me (several feet) so I could reach her. This led to her asking, “Daddy carry me to Mama!” Cute. We assumed she was being really lazy. She just fussed and fussed about moving. Finally she got close enough for me to pick up. Unfortunately she had a garden gnome in her hands (that she calls her “man”) that she randomly plays with sometimes even though it’s heavy. Well she was in my lap and dropped that thing right onto my toe. I jumped around a bit since it hurt, and it made her cry louder. She’s a sensitive little thing so I assumed she was spooked that she’d hurt Mama. But that’s when her leg/hip pain was getting really bad. Picking her up had her arching her back in pain. I took off her pants and looked everywhere for a bruise or cut, but saw nothing. She barely touched dinner and was up until midnight in ouchy pain.

We think it *might* be transient synovitis (irritable hip) since she’s had it once before and it went away a week later.

She had this back in October of 2008.

It happened while I was in Washington DC.

Thankfully my dad and Grandma Christina were there to help Charley take care of Lali. Also we did x-rays and nothing was broken, but doctors couldn’t be sure that some small break hadn’t happened that they couldn’t see in a child that small.

I hate seeing her in pain. I know that surgery will be 100 times worse, but that ouchy face makes me wanna cry. I hope this goes away faster than last time, and she is back to her old self soon.

Poor baby.

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