oh dear

No no, I don't have unusually petite hands and use Car's Band-Aids.

This is Little Miss.

First thing that happened was her hand getting smashed in the car door across the knuckles.

You can see the bruising.

As if that weren't enough, she then somehow found one of those little yellow Olfa containers.

{Quilters, you know were this is heading}

Long story short she had picked up a small rotary cutter blade out of the container and cut her fingers.

She silently came into the living room to give the empty case to my Mom and that's when we saw the blood.

As I was rinsing and cleaning her right hand in the sink trying to see where the cuts were, I noticed her other hand was bloody and she had it clinched tight.  As I unfurled her fingers, looking for more cuts, I discovered the rotary blade in the palm of her hand.

How on earth it didn't cut her little hand I'll never know.

It could have easily been so much worse.

We thought everything dangerous was put up and she had an adult less than two feet away.

It all happened so fast.

Sigh.  I guess this is why they say accident's happen.

We all felt terrible though.  

One because the blades were there in the first place, another because he was sitting 'right there', and me because I should have taught her about rotary blades and how sharp they are (I use one practically every day for crying out loud!).

Kids are so amazing though.  She was completely healed up in a weeks time.  

I honestly think as adults we were more taken aback by it than she was because we possess the knowledge regarding how much worse it could have been.

Phew.