Good news, Bad news

Aaaaah! Today has been rather frightful. We had to take Emma to the ER... (no worries, grandma's and grandpa's... she's okay). She was playing in the silverware drawer while Ben and I were finishing eating lunch; I had forgotten that in the back of the drawer is an attachment blade for the food processor (this whole story is going to make me look like a bad mother!). Well, she got a hold of it while we weren't looking and got her thumb stuck in between one of the blade openings. Ben and I ran over to help her get it off, and in the process she yanked her thumb out and sliced off most of her thumbnail and a good chunk of skin from underneath. Oh, it was horrible. She was screaming and bleeding like crazy. We were trying to hold a cloth on her finger, while Ben and I were deciding if we needed to take her to the hospital or not. Well, in the end, we opted to take her in to the ER. We were there forever... like 4 hours! The doctor ended up just removing the hanging on nail and skin and bandaging it up. They did take an X Ray to make sure she didn't break anything underneath. He said that the nail should grow back because the cut wasn't quite low enough to prevent it from doing so. I hope it heals alright. Poor thing. At least she didn't come out of the whole thing looking like poor homestar there.

On a lighter note, we celebrated Chinese New Year with Ben's family last night. It was really a lot of fun. (But once again, Ben wasn't able to come because of finals week). We ate take out Pei Wei and dressed up in Chinese attire. The kids got to search the house for money envelopes (apparently this is a traditional Chinese New Year activity). Emma loved collecting a ton of coins. They've been strewn all over the house the past couple of days, as she repeatedly gathers and scatters the numerous coins.