Should have named her "Grace" *EDIT x 2*

I got to work this morning, and had literally just sat down in my chair when my cell phone started vibrating. I saw that it was the babysitter calling, and I had a momentary freak-out moment. She never calls me--once in a while, she'll text message me or send me a picture of Ari (today she sent me 2 of Ari playing dress-up), but she never calls.

I picked up the phone, and learned that my genius child had done a face-plant on the hardwood floor, resulting in a bloody, fat lip. Mary wasn't even sure how she'd done it, and I wasn't surprised--we still don't know how she fell that time she had to get a stitch in her forehead. Mary told me the bleeding had stopped, but Ari wouldn't let them get a good look at it (again, not surprising). They were trying to feed her a popsicle, but she wanted her milk instead. Mary said she just wanted to let me know, and I thanked her and told her to call me if it started bleeding again or anything worse.

I didn't see Ari until I got home from work (late) tonight, and she definitely has a fat upper lip. It looks a little black and blue, too. I got a good peek at it when I brushed her teeth tonight (I lay her down on my lap to do it) and it definitely looks worse on the inside of the lip--all puffy and discolored.

Tony and I have a running joke that every good quality Ari has is from him, and every negative thing is from me. She has his beautiful blue eyes. She has my temper. She has his outgoing, friendly personality. She has my picky eating habits.

So we can just add her clumsiness to the growing list of things she's inherited from me. I wonder what her next injury will be.

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In other Ari news, she now says "aww" when she gives hugs. Probably because that's what we always say when we give her hugs or get hugs from her--you know, to encourage her to keep giving them. I thought the fact that she gives hugs was cute, but adding this baby-voiced "aww" to it makes it insufferably cute. It makes me want to ask her for hugs constantly.

I tried to get a video of her doing it last night, but of course, she wouldn't say it. She did give Tony 2 hugs, though, which was very sweet. Remind me to upload that video when I get home tonight.

That is all. As you were.

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OK, last edit. Well, maybe 2nd to last, if I decide to add that video to this entry. Anyway...

I forgot to mention another one of Ari's newest tricks. She does this thing where she'll squeeze her eyes shut and then swivel her head and upper body back and forth and all around. We call it her "Ray Charles impression" because I promise you, she looks just like him (aside from the fact that she's a tiny white girl and she's not playing a piano while doing it). That's another one I want to capture on video, but unfortunately, she doesn't (yet) do it on cue.

The end.

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