stitches

in a house full of boys i guess it's inevitable that one boy or another is going to have to get stitches in his lifetime. gavin can now check it off his list :). poor guy was playing in kaden's room on friday night and decided to be a monkey and scale the closet shelves. needless to say, he fell, and caught his mouth on the way down and ripped the corner of his lip/mouth right open. i have a more gorey picture than the one above {with the wound wide open...it went back into his mouth too} but i decided not to post it on the blog :).

so...we rushed to the nearest insta care and had him stitched right up. he was SO good. the nurse kept commenting on how calm and brave he was. poor guy!

but there's more...he decided to rip out one of his stitches the next day {and loosen another}! ouch! i don't know how he did it, but all he said when i went up to him and noticed the corner of his mouth gaping open again was, "mommy, there was a hair"! of course it was late saturday night, and of course nothing was open but the emergency room. :)

it turned into a long night. we were sent up to primary children's er because being that it was a wound on his face, he needed someone more experienced with children {especially toddlers} because of scaring etc {by this time, he had messed it up a lot more. if it were anywhere else i wouldn't care as much. but his face, let alone the corner of his mouth...i didn't want a big scar there}...

he DID NOT want to be at the doctors this time. all he could think about were the two shots he got right in his wound the night before to numb it all up.

they had to sedate him so they could work on his face a little more effectively...

and here we are with round 2 of stitches :)...

what a tough little guy! i must say, he was SO funny coming out of it. we were laughing SO hard. i'll have to post some of the video we took. definitely some good entertainment at 3 am {yes, the er was packed that night...we waited for like 5 hours. luckily they let us wait in the car where we could watch movies :). fun stuff!}...