Figuring It Out: Our first trip to the ER...

On Mother's Day!

I meant to post this right after Mother's Day, but didn't. Here's the story:

After a quiet morning at home we went to spend the rest of the day over at Tim's parents. We arrived, started making a (very) late lunch while the kids ran around and as I headed into the living room where the kids were playing to nurse Clara I watched as Dylan, who was chasing Kaylin, tripped and banged his face into the corner of the coffee table. Of course I gasped and ran over to him to assess the damage and check if he was alright/comfort him. He was bleeding from his bottom lip and of course crying pretty hard and while trying to console him, too many of us, all at the same time tried to see how big a gash he had in his lip. Everyone was yelling what to do; there was lots of chaos and it was determined that he had bitten through his lower lip and that because there was a hole that we needed to take him to the ER.

Now it is ironic that this happened (and of course on Mother's Day) because just earlier in the week I had commented to Tim one morning that I was surprised that we had never had to take any kids into the emergency room yet and that we were pretty lucky that nothing major had happened.

So of course now we find ourselves at the ER (on Mother's Day!) and long story short (sort of) Dylan had actually not bitten through his lip--it was two separate cuts so there was no hole, he didn't need stitches and we were out of there after about 15 minutes (and $180!).

So then Tim declared that we had ruined our record for nothing. But we were glad that it wasn't serious and that no stitches were needed because who wants to have their child go through that.

Here he is after being cleaned up and back from the hospital. He really was quite a trooper.