Poor Eliza

Eliza's had a rough bout of bad luck with physical injuries, lately. And of course, it's right before we update our family pictures. I only hope that she doesn't look like she's wearing the make-up I'll be putting on her to cover-up the scrapes and bruises

First, we noticed this cut next to her eye.
Observe the black eye on the right (her left)?! Didn't even see that because we were too focused on how she got the cut to the right of it.

What the...is that food on her face?! Sheesh. What kind of a mom leaves her kids looking so scruffy?!

After we cleaned up and kissed her owies on the face, we noticed her poor knees.

So what could be the cause behind the owies?


Possibly the super-safe, level, crack-free concrete retaining wall between our driveway and our neighbor's yard.

Eliza loves to show off on this ledge, which is just her size.

Or maybe her sweet ride, which I recall her pushing Seth right before we noticed the scrapes (he's comfortable with his masculinity and doesn't mind the faded purple and pink)

Or it could have been completely while on her own, going over the equally safe and level driveway next to the tree.

Showing off another angle of the owies. Just ignore that she's not sitting like a lady. We're working on that.

Slowly everything's healing, so hopefully she'll be scrape-free enough for family pictures, but she's got proof that she's been enjoying the summer! If only I could keep band-aids on her to eliminate all the blood spots on her clothes...