More for the scrapbook

How many other 4-year-olds can boast of a life experience like Levynn's?

From Louisville's suburb-like sidewalks to Chicago's Magnificent Mile, few small children walk on their own in public, but Levynn has been doing that almost as long as she could walk at all (you should see the strollers here!). She has been inside the Baseball Hall of Fame. She has watched horses run at Churchill Downs. She has slept in a tent. She has sat in Wrigley Field. (What else?)

Now she can say that she has been treated in an emergency room twice (in four months!) and has come out of it swinging both times.

Just before dinner yesterday, Levynn was involved in a hazily-detailed incident with a large toy truck. She now says she lost her grip on it as she was pushing it and smacked her chin on the floor. All we know for sure is that she opened an inch-long gash under her chin, and it was wide enough that Dad thought it looked like a bloody mouth.

So, before the nursemaid's-elbow-incident (did you know about that one, back in June?) even had faded from conversation, Levynn was back in Children's Memorial Hospital's emergency room receiving five stitches last night.

But don't worry. She's doing fine.