Jaina's first cooking accident

So, as the title suggests, Jaina got hurt while helping me make dinner the other night.
Yeah, she managed to grab her hot pan, not on the handle, but by the pan! To her great honor, she was a trooper about it. We ran it under very cold water for, oh, 2 hours or so:) She'd take her hand out for about 5 minutes before she'd go running back to the kitchen and back to the sink. We got to use it as a teaching moments; she decided that just because she got hurt it didn't mean that she should give up on something she likes to do, that hurts are a part of life, and that now she knows better and she is smarter for it. She really was very brave!
We got her to bed not long after with the promise that tomorrow it wouldn't hurt, and all she needed was sleep. She still struggled though, and we tried to keep up the idea that it wasn't really too bad, and that all she needed to do was not worry about it and think about something else.

She didn't buy it!

So, eventually I sat down with her and told her that, yes, I cry when I get burned too, and that it was okay that she cried and that, yes, it really did hurt. The acknowledgement of her pain seemed to calm her down and she got to sleep. She got up only once during the night; we got her a bit more pain reliever for the pain and it didn't take long for her to get back to sleep.

The best thing was the next morning; I woke up to an ecstatic little girl voice yelling that her booboo didn't hurt! Joy of joys, Mommy didn't lie:)