One Year Ago today.......

I was woken suddenly by my husband in a panic.  I had worked the night before and had only layed down about an hour and a half earlier. He explained to me that Eli had gotten hurt and needed to go to the hospital.  I quickly pulled myself out of the sleep fog I was in and went to examine my sweet little boy.  Sure enough....he needed stitches.  At the time, with everything going on in our lives, I was so upset I couldn't even allow myself to blog about this.  But as time has gone by and old scars are healing it doesn't hurt so much to document this part of our lives.

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 That day, the kids had headed over to the in-laws house while I layed down to sleep.  I was in my last little stretch of nights until after Christmas with just two more to go.  Nona pulled out her old tin cookie cutters and playdough for Maddie and Robby to play with (one of their favorite things to do).  Eli of course wanted to join in on the fun and toddled over to the table to play.  He managed to pull down a gingerbread man cookie cutter and while diving down to retrieve it, he landing face first.  He literally stamped the picture of a gingerbread man on his face.  My poor mother-in-law was beside herself and even said that she was going to throw away all of her tin cookie cutters. 
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When I looked at it I knew it was time to pack up and head to the hospital.  We bee-lined for Banner Gateway and luckily got in rather quickly.  Three hours later we walked away with six stitches, dermabond glue, $125 copay, a sleeping little boy and an exhausted Mommy.  Although Jesse felt bad for waking me up, I was glad I could at least be with my little guy through this.  I think that next night of work I was more tired than I have ever been in my life.....

Poor little E continued to smile through all this :)

They put Lat-Gel on his lacerations to help numb them up....I don't think it really a big difference.  Either way he screamed like crazy when we had to hold him down so the doctor could stitch him up.  They were able to use dermabond glue on the lacerations above his left eyebrow and between his nose and mouth; and only had to do six stitches on his left cheek with a little glue on the side. 

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Poor little guy was exhausted and fell asleep sometime in the middle of the sutures.  He slept the entire way home as well. 

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I always knew at some point one of my kids would end up with stitches.  The crazy thing was that I would have thought that Maddie or Robby would have been my first to have this happen.  They are much more adventuresome and wild than Eli.

Fast forward one year and Eli is happy as can be and there is only a slight trace of the sutures from the "gingerbread man."  How I love this little baby of mine!

{I am in total denial that he will be TWO next week}