Leda's first bee sting :(

We went to the beach this week with family in town, and Leda had a too-close encounter with an ornery bee at the beach. I felt so bad for her. No one expects to get stung while playing in the sand and minding their own business.



She screamed for a bit, I could tell it really hurt her. I didn't get a pic of that of course...what kind of mom would I be if I had?

At first I was quickly looking around for ice to put on it (had none), until my sister recommended cold/wet sand. Brilliant! Worked like a charm and she immediately stopped screaming.



What a trooper! She's definately our most emotional child and cries about practically everything, but she really was a big girl during this experience. Shocking!

When it was over she said, "Oh well, the bee is all dead now. It's okay" lol.



An hour after this bee episode, we lost Leda for only about five minutes (felt longer) when she followed my cousin Daniel to the bathrooms a loong way away and we didn't know it. It was quite honestly the scariest five minutes I've ever experienced. We'd even contacted the lifeguards and had perfect strangers walking up and down the beach for us. When Leda returned with cousin Daniel by the hand, I fell to the ground and sobbed while gripping her in a ginormous bear hug. I literally felt my knees buckle beneath me when I had her in arms. In that short amount of time I'd invisioned these above pictures being the last ones I ever took of Leda. Scary. I do not want to EVER experience that again! Whew!