333. scrapes and scooters

1/9/13

Today Isla got her first skateboard injury.  We were having a driveway scooter/tricycle/skateboard party after getting her new helmet shaped like a cat's head.  She saw me skateboarding and wanted to try it, so I put her on one, and rode her around the driveway a couple times.  Then she did what every self-respecting kid would do with a skateboard:  put the helmet on a stuffed dog wearing high heel boots, and skate it around while singing "American Pie."  This went swimmingly until she decided to do what looked a little like Jazzercise on the skateboard.  At one point, her knees tucked under her on the skateboard, doing some kind of Yoga pose, she pushed down too hard on the nose and it drug her fingers on the concrete.  She got a huge scrape down one of her little knuckles and I felt a little bad, but a little proud that she held it together while I did the whole wash, hydrogen peroxide/dry/bandaid thing.  Overall she was a trooper, and had her little cat helmet back on in a couple minutes anyway.