tragedy strikes

Last night someone who shall remain nameless (wasn't me.) decided to trim Ryleigh's fingernails with clippers instead of nail scissors. What happened next can only be described as an EXTENSIVE injury to the pad of Ryleigh's thumb... A single drop of blood GUSHED from the GAPING wound the size of a paper cut. Ryleigh stared at it frozen in horror. She whimpered slightly as we wiped off the blood and applied a band-aid. However once she caught a glimpse of her bandaged thumb, she began to scream in agony! She is apparently terrified of band-aids! After wailing for about fifteen minutes, she seemed to recover somewhat when dinner was served. However, every few minutes she would catch a glimpse of her injured thumb and would start crying all over again! She was holding the offensive thumb out away from her body, frozen stiff, as if her arm were broken! She walked around like this for an hour or so, until her Daddy took pity on her and removed the scary band-aid. The cut is barely noticable this morning, but when interviewed about the incident, Ryleigh sighs pitifully, stretches out the thumb to show you, and looks back ruefully at Ryan while placing the blame... "Daddy. Ow Wow!"