staples for christmas

So today didn't go quite as planned.

We didn't make it to Christmas Eve service.  Love Bug was too cranky to push her nap back to go to one of the earlier services and she slept too late to go to one of the later services.

But that was ok.  I can't sweat the small stuff.

So we decided to make breakfast for dinner...we are trying to make some fun Christmas Eve traditions.  After an awesome dinner, while D and I were cleaning the kitchen, Love Bug and The Mayor were running around excited about Santa coming.  We were going to clean the kitchen, takes baths, put Reindeer Food out in the yard, get Santa's cookies ready and then drive around and look at Christmas lights.

We got through the first item.  We cleaned the kitchen.  And while we were cleaning, The Mayor took a nasty fall and landed on the corner shelf in our kitchen (we have 2 shelves in between some cabinets and it has a very pointy corner.  He hit that corner with the back of his head.  He cried, I kissed it and thought we were fine.  I saw no blood.

After awhile, we went upstairs to start the bath and he laid on his bed.  When he got up, there was blood on his sheet.  After careful examination, and a few phone calls to some nurses we know, we decided he needed to go to the ER.  Sure enough, he had one pretty deep gash.  And that rule about head wounds gushing blood is a myth.  There was no gushing.

He and I loaded up and headed to the ER at the Children's Hospital in Atlanta and after some discussion with the plastic surgeon, we decided a staple was better than a stitch.  With the stitch, The Mayor would have to be sedated (and then more than likely still held down), he wouldn't be able to get the area wet for 24 hours and then would have to immediately dry the area once he was able to bathe, and there was the possibility he could pick the stitch out.  With the staple, once the wound was cleaned, it would literally be done in 1 second, no sedation needed and we don't have to worry about him messing with the staple.  In 2 weeks, I can take him to his pediatrician to have the staple removed.

The Mayor did so amazing.  I was so proud of my brave little boy.

Love Bug was sound asleep by the time we got home, so we let The Mayor put out the reindeer food and now he is asleep.  And this mommy is not far behind.

Santa better be REAL nice to my Mayor in the morning.

putting out the reindeer food