Boo Boo

As most of you know we had two boys and then came two girls.  We'd never seen the inside of a hospital or an Emergency Room, for that matter until Ellie. And you know how much of a hospital we saw with her the first year of her life.

The next hospital occurance was Julia in 2015.  Two, in fact - back to back. A fall at a playground with a head injury scare that turned out to be nothing and a trip in the house that split her forehead and required seven stitches.

Then Wednesday night of this week we were having a quiet evening. In fact I had just said to Jeff, "We are having a quiet evening."  Then Ellie stood up, took three steps and fell/tripped.  Her forehead came in contact with a spindle on a railing in our den and it split her sweet skin right open.  Flashbacks of Julia's injury hit us and we decided it's best to get it closed up so it will heal faster and scar less.

So Ellie and Mommy took a trip to the pediatric ER and had a great experience. It was fast (it was 7:30 pm), everyone was friendly and happy to meet Ellie, and Ellie was just happy to have WiFi on her iPad.  Here she is waiting to be seen.

Putting pressure on the injury, trying carefully not to block her view of Blue's Clues.

I blurred out the injury for those of you that might not like to see gashes of flesh.  A little "glue" was all it took during which she held perfectly still.

We headed back home, washed the blood off both of us and she went right to sleep. She hasn't touched it sense and when people at church today asked what happened they got a blank stare back from her as if she's forgotten!  We'll take the bandage off at the end of this week after 10 days and hopefully it will continue to heal with time.  I feel like she and I were both thinking, "This is nothing!" while we were going through it :).