It was Bound to Happen One of These Days...

Since Luke is 100% boy and loves to play rough, etc. we knew one of these days he'd end up in a cast, with stitches, etc. Well, tonight was the night. Emma, Luke and I were hanging out in the living room, listening to Christmas music ,and looking at the tree lights after dinner. We'd been out there for probably 30 minutes when Luke started jumping around, playing and all of a sudden, he fell and hit the corner of the coffee table - it was a direct hit to his head. In fact, his cut even "looked" just like the corner. Poor guy!! Of course he started screaming, I ran with him into the bathroom to get something to catch the blood. Emma was a big helper and brought me a wet washcloth. I called Jeff who was luckily only a couple of minutes away.

We took him to the walk-in where the nurse came out to look at him and said he definitely needed stitches. So, we waited. Luke was such a trooper! He did not cry once while at the doctors, not with the shot, or with the 3 stitches. We'll go back in 5 days for them to take them out and they think it'll leave a little scar but said it shouldn't be noticable when he gets older.

Waiting for the doctor

Waiting while it becomes numb

At home, all stitched up, ready

for bed!

Definitely not the way we wanted to spend our evening with our little guy but definitely thankful it wasn't a worse accident! The only surprising thing about this was that it didn't happen riding a bike, skateboard, or while climbing up on something. He's now sound asleep and I'm hoping tonight was the worst of it! (and, sidenote... I'm thinking Emma may have a future in medicine. She wanted to come with us, and insisted on watching them stitch him up... that's more than I can say, they lowered the bed for me so I didn't pass out while holding him - haha!)