Oh man...Stitches...

September 6th...

Everyone told me when I had a little boy that I would become a regular at the hospital. Stitches, casts, bumps, bruises. I knew the day was coming. I had no idea, however, that it was coming now. He is only 2 and a half years old! I was on the phone with my sister and she could hear Cael laughing and asked what he was doing. I told her he was wrestling with Jo...rolling around on the floor and she was licking him to pieces. We both commented on the fact that they had never played like that with each other before (without me or Derrick egging Jo on) and that Jo must have decided Cael is a big boy now and she can be a little rough. I guess that was all it took because 5 minutes later he rolled himself right into our big hutch and split his head open. This was definitely a night when it would have been nice to have my husband home; that way I could run around the house being dramatic and frantic like I felt like doing. Instead I had to suck it up and tell him the peroxide would only sting for a second. I decided I am not medically inclined enough to know if it would be alright without stitches, so I took him to the ER just in case. That was fun...

He was having a great time at first, sitting on the big bed with his very own remote for the tv! We got to watch whatever he wanted. (We ended up flipping through every channel 100 times because one had a commercial with horses on it and he wanted to see it again.) When things finally got underway, a Dr and a nurse came in and wrapped him up like a burrito. That (go figure) he didn't like so much. He was just a scared little head yelling "mom mom! mom mom!" but after the numbing medicine kicked in, and the nurse held some gauze over his eyes so he didn't have to look at the Dr, he was just fine. He stayed so still, he wouldn't even answer the questions about his daddy and sister. Afterwards he got a grape Popsicle and that completely made his night! He was a trooper, and he did a way better job at dealing with the stitches than I did!