Nicholas's War Wounds

My little peanut at 2:30 Saturday morning immediately upon getting home from the local hospital with 2 stitches in his right eye brow.

After a couple hours of sleep and the freezing wearing off.

On Monday morning with a couple of days healing under his belt.

So, lets give you the lowdown...

Friday night at around 11 pm, I was trying to get Nic to head upstairs so I could change his diaper and encourage him to start heading for bed. It wasn't an easy process since he'd had a nap late in the afternoon and was still WIDE awake.

He tripped on the first couple of stairs and hit his head. I thought little about it since he's done this on countless other occasions. I will admit that I was losing my patience with him and I simply scooped him up, carried him up to his room and laid him down on the change pad on top of his dresser. THIS is when I saw the blood. Nic started to freak out a little but I actually remained quite calm. I cleaned him up, put some gauze on it and headed off to the hospital.

We finally got into the treatment room and because he was having a screaming fit, the nurses kicked me out of the room with the pretense that he'd calm down if I wasn't in sight. The stitching took less than 10 minutes and we were out the door to head home again.

Up until now, even with all the trauma, drama and medical problems, my kids have avoided actual stitches. Steri-strips, yes but no surface stitches. Is this an indicator of what he's going to look like when he starts playing sports? The kid already leads with his head. I call him the tank or the bulldozer because he just barrels on through whatever is in his way; It doesn't matter if it's furniture or people.

So all in all, he's fine. He's playing, fighting with Nathan and cuddling just like he normally does. His stitches come out on Friday. I keep thinking I could do it myself but then I realize that I only have 2 hands and it would take an octopus Mother to hold him down and snip those things. I see high drama at the doctor's office. LOL Wish us luck!