Gracies Accident

On Saturday, with the weather so nice and our neighborhood pool being heated with a tent over it, Jarrod and girls set out for some swimming. The girls wanted to bike ride. Jarrod would have rode his bike too, but had too much to carry, so he drove the van behind the girls. While Gracie was going down a big hill at 15 mph, her bike wheels started to wobble, and Gracie went down, hard. She wiped out and scraped lots of skin off in various places. She has some scraps on both her elbows. Chunks of skin scraped off the tops of her feet, one toe, and one finger. The worse of it was on her knees, she had approx. 4 square inches of skin missing from her knees. The wound gets deeper as it moves to the center. Of course there was lot of screaming and crying while we cleaned the rocks out of each wound and applied neosporin and bandages to her wounds. She acts completely normal for the most part, except right before and after cleaning and re-bandaging the wounds. For the most part she has been a trooper! She is not ready to go on a bike ride anytime soon. When she does bike, I expect she'll take the time to put her knee and elbow pads on. She was wearing her helmet, thank goodness. And we thanked Heavenly Father that her injuries were not more severe!