A first.... five times!

Our sweet precious little man is sporting his first set of stitches! I still can't believe it! Some of the time I think, "well he's a boy and it's no big deal!"....then the other part of me says, "My perfect little man and that perfect little face has now been cut open!!!!!"

I wanted to document the event..it's a big first for us! Thursday night we were playing after bath time in the kitchen at Poppa and Nunno's. After bath, we started with a quick game of Go Fish! and then Lucy and Jack went to play with the magnets. I was sitting right on the floor near them as they played. He was just playing around and about to get up and dance to "Run Run Rudolph!" He fell and must have hit just the right way. I think because he was so tired that he might not have caught himself.  I grabbed him and was looking at his face and didnt see anything. I asked him where it hurt and he pointed to his chin.... Ohhhhhhhh. It was split open in a perfect line. I was waiting for the blood to start flowing. It was so hard to see his little chin cut like that. We went back and forth on whether to take him to the ER.. one of the problems was that he was so tired that once he relaxed and laid back while we kept pressure on it he was falling asleep. Poor little guy was so tired. So there he was completely asleep as we wake him up and put him in the car. He was such a champ. He said once when we were getting in the car that he didnt want to leave. (Break my heart....) but once we got to the ER, he was great! He told the nurses that he hit his chin on the floor...he did whatever they said! He seemed so grown up as he walked through behind the nurse to his exam room. 
They came in to put in the stitches and I braced myself for one of the more horrible moments in my life. I was picturing him screaming and being held down......but Jack laid right back with a nurse at his head and Daddy sitting next to him and didnt make a sound! In fact...they were going to put 2-3 stitches in and ended up putting FIVE just because he was laying there so calmly!!! They said they didnt have 30 year olds that did that well! I teared up watching my brave little man lay there!
After they were done, he said he didnt want to keep the stitches in...but he has done so great with them! He doesnt really mess with them and he goes back and forth on whether he wants to show them off.
I know it's not the biggest deal in the world for your child to get hurt and go to the ER, but it was really tough to see that little man hurt.  We are so very proud of him! He continues to amaze us everyday!

So.... a first for us! FIVE STITCHES IN THE CHIN!!!!