One Little Monkey...

Jumping on the bed. He fell off and bumped his head...

We'd been after the boys all day to stop jumping on the bed. We'd had friends over and they were completely wound up. DH was changing in our bedroom for his softball game while my youngest was apparently disregarding every warning we'd given him throughout the day, including the one DH had JUST uttered before going into the other room to change. A very loud thud and blood curdeling scream later...large 2 inch gash in my youngest's forehead.

You forget how much the head bleeds...must be God's way of shocking the hell out of you to act fast. We had my youngest in the car and were on the way to the ER within 15 minutes. The bleeding actually stopped fairly quickly with a little bit of pressure.

Dermabond is a wonder! They basically put superglue in the wound and squeeze the skin back together. From what we understand, in about five days the dermabond will peel off on its own and the wound will heal on its own from there. No traumatic stitches, though you would have thought that's what they were doing when they had to hold him down to put the dermabond on.

The nurses and ER doc at North KC Hospital were great. We were in and out in less than two hours, that has to be a record for us.

And what was one of the first thing's my darling toddler did when we got upstairs to take a bath? Started jumping on the large chair in our bedroom. And when I kneeled down and explained that he can NOT jump on the furniture ever again...big smile. Lord help us...