Are you for real?!?!?!? Poor Dallin

Because the kid's usual daycare day is Friday and that's a stat holiday this week and next, I was onto it enough to swap it a month or so back so I could still have my 'sanity day' for these 2 weeks of Christmas and New Years. Today was the Monday before Christmas, the one I've planned to do last minute shopping, present wrapping, the usual bits and pieces that are always easier to do without 3 pre-schoolers, and hopefully have a moment to put my feet up. All that was shot to pieces when I got a phone call from daycare at about 12:45pm....something about Dallin's toe...sore....something on it.....crying when they try and get it off.....might need to see a doctor.

So off I went to pick her up and see what the dealio was. This is what I found......

The pictures don't really show just how crazy and serious it was. Down to the hospital we went. They reckoned it we hadn't noticed it for a while longer we could have been taking a sock off with a little toe dropping out all by itself!!!

Everyone was coming in to look at the baby with the sore toe and giving ideas of how to get it off.....hair removal cream (in case it was a hair wrapped tightly around). No one was having any luck despite 4 of us holding her down a few times to get tweezers, needles, other scary sharp implements at it. My poor baby!!!!

She was such a lil' trooper. Everyone couldn't get over how smily she was, especially with such a sore toe

Despite her smiles she eventually got fed up with all the poking and squeezing of the little digit

So after a couple of hours and many attempts, some cold cream and a sharp thingy ma bob and they managed to get it out...a little bit of purple cotton from a sock.

What the heck. Who'd have thought wearing a sock could end up in surgery....and thank goodness it came out on that last go cause that was the next step.

Thankfully you'll never remember this my baby, but that's why I love writing our stories down and having a few pics to document the crazy things that happen sometimes.

Sweet Dreams my girl. Hope your toe looks and feels better in the morning!