Well one of my kids has finally done something to require stitches. 🙁 Up until now we’ve never had to deal with anything like this. Kids get bonked that’s normal. I’ve dealt with cuts, scrapes & bruises before, but alas, almost 7 years into being a mommy, Ethan decided he wasn’t going to watch where he was going, and he got hurt. The story goes like this:
He was throwing around a cardboard ring (trash really but he was playing with it). He would throw it, then he would run to go get it, basically playing “catch” with himself. He threw it into my room (which is a huge mess) and I was in there folding laundry so I asked him to go back to his room and finish cleaning it up so I could vacuum. SO he threw the cardboard ring into his room. Then he ran to go get it, and that’s when it happened….. He was NOT watching where he was going. Jeremy was playing on the rug in their room and Ethan tripped over Jeremy and went flying and hit his head on the side of his bed. I heard him freaking out, rolled my eyes (he over-reacts quite a lot these days) and I asked Kyle if he would go find out what happened. Then I hear Kyle freaking out. So I put down the laundry and went to go see what Ethan had done. He had a gash about an inch long on his forehead, bleeding everywhere. So Kyle handed Chloe to me, and got Ethan a washcloth to put on his forehead and took him to the instacare for stitches. 🙁
He got 4 of them:
Why does he look so happy???? Well it could be that he got a lolly pop, some stickers and a Woody toy out of it. Kyle decided that he was so good for the stitches (no crying or squirming, just some whimpering) so he decided to take Ethan to the store to pick a toy.
Later he said that he was hoping that his body would fly up and land ON his bed, but he missed and hit the side of the bed instead.
Just seeing him with that owie on his forehead reminds me of the time he fell over and hit his head on an alphabet block:
January 2004