Back to Bama!

In early June, I decided it was time to brave a solo flight with Virginia back to Alabama to see her Mimi and Papa again.  My high school girlfriends planned a mini-reunion in Birmingham that same weekend, so it was the perfect chance to enjoy a girls weekend and let Mimi and Papa take Virginia for an overnight visit.  Aunt Lizzie flew in from Charlotte as well to lend a hand.

The weekend was a ton of fun... Virginia swam and swam in the baby pool in Mimi's back yard, ate Southern cuisine at Martha's Place, and fed Ginger (my parents' new dog) all day long.  The trip took a bit of a strange and unfortunate turn, however, while I was away in Birmingham for my girls' overnight.  While I was away, Virginia slipped and cut her chin on a wooden decorative garbage can at my parents' house.  Luckily, she was in good hands with Papa's medical connections and they took her to the Baptist ER where they determined that she needed a few stitches.  

But she was too upset to handle getting stitches without me there, so I raced back to Montgomery to nurse her boo boos.  A former schoolmate of mine from Montgomery Academy was the ER doctor who stitched her up.  Virginia was not thrilled when we had to put her in the ER equivalent of a straightjacket to do the actual stitching.  She gave the nurses lots of lip!  Although it was upsetting to see her in pain, we were glad to see that her feisty spirit had definitely not been broken.

Even though the trip involved her first ER visit, we still had a blast with family.  I'm happy to report that Virginia is healing nicely and is well on her way to recovery too...

Silly with Aunt Lizzie:

Virginia went down the slide about 200 times!

Pretending to be shy meeting her first celebrity (Martha Hawkins):

Princess Virginia wearing her tiara from Mimi's grab bag of treats:

Ginger ate more that weekend than she had all year!

A ginger with Ginger!  You can see her little scar and fat lip in this photo:

Virginia stymied our attempts to get a shot with her and Mimi all weekend... this was the best we could do!