Lip Correction

About two weeks ago Sophie went back to CHOP to get her lip corrected. As you'll recall, back in August Sophie was jumping on the bed, fell off, landed on the bedside table, and knocked her two front teeth back up into her gums, and split her lip. They stitched the lip in the emergency room, but didn't do the best job, so we had it corrected by the plastic surgery department.

She was pretty nervous about the procedure because we had a lot of time to talk and think about it - as opposed to the last time when it was a mad dash to the ER. But she did great! She was put under and the surgery took about 30 minutes. When she woke up she had about a dozen stitches in her upper lip and it was pretty swollen.

She was a pretty sad girl when she first woke up...

But Dave took her for some ice cream right away! 

And now it's almost back to normal. You can see that one of her front teeth came back all the way, but the other one has only partly emerged. Now that her lip isn't so fat you can see the teeth better. But we have a few years before they both fall out and are replaced by (hopefully very straight) grown up teeth.