bruiser

Ada has always been a tough kid. Given who her parents are I guess it isn't that surprising, but one side effect of being so tough is that she goes through life with courage and abandon that most one year olds don't have. She falls and bumps her head, no tears; she runs into a wall, no tears; she bangs her hockey stick on her head, no tears. I was beginning to think that she might have CIPA, the neurological disorder which prevents someone from feeling pain, but this weekend assured us that she is just a gutsy kid - not a sick one.

Over the course of the weekend, Ada crunched her fingers, took a header into a parking lot, and then as she was being dropped off this morning she fell backwards and bonked her head. The fingers and head are OK, but she did scream for a little while after crunching her fingers so I'm guessing it hurt. I think the header startled her more than anything, but she did cry for about 10 seconds. I think she realized at that point that she was OK, it was all surface level damage and that was going to have some major bragging rights this week. It does look horrible though. I bet all day today she had little kids asking her what happened to her face, with Ada answering back, "Well, you should see the other girl".