Head case

8 staples!

A happy boy at the breakfast table

When you have children, especially ones as active as ours, the ER trips are almost inevitable! Monday night was just one of those nights. After school we had built a tent out of cushions in his bedroom. He decided to take it all down and set up a cushion "slide" down which he somersaulted, hitting the closet door, and attached molding. There was a a lot of crying and blood, but Dan was able to slow that down and get Micah cleaned up while he watched some TV to distract him. But after we got Micah in the shower, we realized the gash was pretty deep and would require a visit to the ER that night. Dan took Micah over there and 8 staples later, they came home ready for a good night's rest. Dan said Micah did so well that the ER doctor said he took the procedure better than any child he had seen in his 20 years of practice! He's a tough kid and Dan's a great daddy. He also had a few people praying for him :-) Micah returned to school today after a day at home to rest, and he hasn't complained of any pain. He gets the staples removed next Tuesday, so hopefully that will go smoothly too. We're just glad it wasn't more serious. In the first video, you can hear him telling the story of what happened. The last video is just Jacob being his happy self in the morning. He's learning to say "please" and here he is showing off. He has had two peaceful nights in a row so we figure the tooth he was working on must have popped through, but due to his cheekiness, we haven't been able to safely confirm the presence of such a tooth :-)