Life Lessons

Yesterday Ally came home from a friend's house yelling and crying. I was in the living room and heard her in the front yard before she made it inside. She had fallen off her bike. The first true casualty of riding a two-wheeler. Here's the evidence:

The picture doesn't really do the injury justice. Her nose is a lot pinker. And her chin is a lot more purple.

I felt really bad for her until she told us today that she fell off the bike because she rode into the big garbage cans in front of the house (it was garbage day). I asked her if she learned a lesson about riding directly into a garbage can. She said, "I sure did. Never ride your bike without a face mask."