Monday, October 12, 2009

Cole's Initiation into Boyhood

One of the things about being a little brother is that you rarely are the first to do something. Well, today Cole took matters into his own hands and hit a milestone before Mia-first trip to the ER and first set of stitches-yikes!!

I should start by saying that Cole is VERY physical these days. He walks, runs, climbs, falls, and tumbles off of things with a ton of energy and enthusiasm. Lately he has been all about trying to climb on the sofa, coffee tables and ottomans. Well this morning, he climbed from the sofa, to the side table and promptly fell backwards on the back of his head. He hit the vent on the floor, mainly the part that sticks out that you open and close the vent with. I didn't realize this at first, and put ice on his head and when I pulled away the icepack there was blood. After a momentary freakout, I looked at it and called for Cort. :) While the area was very small (maybe 1/2 inch or so), it looked deep and had that gross flap of skin-ick! We decided that it would probably be best for me to take him to the ER while Cort stayed back with Mia.

The best part of the whole experience was the new Plainfield ER. They were so quick it was amazing. I left the house at about 8am and was home by 8:50, with Cole and 2 stitches in his head. The stitching part itself was not pretty. They wrapped Cole up so that he was restrained and boy did he scream when they gave him the shot to numb his head and actually stitched him up. Afterwards though, he was a total champ. The rest of the day he acted like nothing ever happened and resumed trying to climb all over the furniture. I should add that the end table he tumbled off of is now officially banished to the basement (at least until he is out of this phase!). :)

Here's a quick shot of his war wounds (really not so bad!)...

1 comment:

Julie, Charlie, Carter, Logan & Ava said...

you know a broken bone's next. not wishing anything bad to happen, but it's the joys of having boys!