Abby, Zoë and Enzo

We went to the Target in Somersworth today, they were having a big sale on some items.  I had told the girls that I was hoping to get a body pillow that was on sale and Zoë insisted that she get one too.  When I told her they weren't for her, she said that she'd come sneak in my bed.  She said to me, "And you know what I'll do when you're not seeing me?  I'll lay on it!"  The whole rest of the day she wouldn't let up about her having a body pillow, even after saying it was bigger than her bed and her.  Each of the girls got to choose one thing to get in the store.  It was so funny when we got to the food section and they saw the candy aisle.  They both ran to it and, checking out all of the candy, exclaimed "Candy!"  Abby ended up choosing to buy a $1 container of lays 'stax' cheddar chips and Zoë got and .89 cent pack of licorice rope.

The trip to the store wasn't all fun.  Out front of the store on the cement sidewalk area, they have these big red balls (made of some sort of rock, cement, something like that - though they're smooth) cemented to the sidewalk.  Abby and Zoë were thrilled with these things and began running towards the next one.  I tried to remind them to walk on cement, but it was too late or they just weren't listening I guess.  I see Abby go down, so close to the ball, and began howling.  The way she had fallen I completely expected that she'd slammed her face into the thing and an awful image flashed through my head of what may have happened to her face.  Turns out, her face was spared, besides a skinned chin from the cement.  Her knees and elbows are another story.  Her left knee was really bleeding quite a bit, the right just a tad.  Her left elbow seemed fine, but the right one was bleeding some.  It is just so hard to see your child hurt, something that doesn't get any easier as they grow.  We got her to the car and I got Zoë in her seat, while Chris tended to Abby at the trunk.  While I was putting Zoë in she said to me, "I pushed Abby" and actually giggled about it.  I was shocked!  (Not to mention upset)  I explained to Zoë how banged up and upset her sister was, and how it could have been much worse (thank God she wasn't just inches closer to that dumb red ball) and then she heard her sister wailing in the back, and then she wasn't so giddy.

Luckily we have the travel first aid kit in the trunk, because we needed it.  The paper towels we keep in the car also came in handy, since I had to soak up a very drippy knee before Chris could wipe it with the antiseptic and get a jumbo square bandaid on it.  The elbow was a pretty easy fix, but Abby was just so upset.  Chris got her set up in her seat as she was still sobbing, then Zoë started sobbing and felt really badly about what had happened.  Chris hadn't heard what she'd said to me and thought she just wanted some attention too, but then I told him what actually happened and Zoë was quite sheepish in the back.  She didn't get yelled at or anything, but Daddy did let Abby get the nightgown that Zoë really wanted at bed time, as her punishment.  What an ordeal, let me tell you.  Chris put the girls to bed tonight, after I read to them downstairs for probably half an hour, and then we made home made microwave popcorn and watched a movie as our anniversary date.