our night at the ER and alex's 15 month appointment

Yes, you heard me right. ER.
It was a LOOONG night.
at about 7, Alex was carrying around his stuffed dog and, of course, tripped and hit his head right on the edge of the coffee table.
We were expecting it to be just like any bump, but he was actually bleeding. Not gushing blood, but still bleeding. It was right under his eyebrow. We got out the ice and got the bleeding to stop and realized that it was a little wide. Of course we didn't have any butterfly bandages, but it was in such an awkward place and we didn't think that we could keep it closed enough to heal well, so we went to the ER.
And it was a LONG wait.
We got there at about 8. Were checked in at about 8:25. Then we sat around and went on a LOT of walks for about 3 hours. at 11:30 we were called back to sign paperwork. Then went back out to the foyer for another 30-50 minutes. We went back into one room and the Dr. came and looked at it and decided that stitches would be the way to go. Then we moved to another more isolated room since we knew that Alex would be doing a lot of LOUD screaming. So at about 12:30, they came in and we strapped Alex into a papoose, which is a back board for babies with velcro straps that go all the way around his body. Since Alex doesn't even like blankets covering him, you can probably guess that he was pretty mad.
So the attending held his head (he said he was a REALLY strong kid... you don't say?!) and the Dr. taped his little eye closed and numbed him up and then stitched him up.
It was so sad to see my baby SCREAMING and the look of terror (and anger) in his one little eye. Not something I want to do again. Oh wait... we get to strap him down again on Tuesday to have them taken out. GREAT.
After that, Alex was very happy to just be held by mommy, but we had to restrain his hands so that he wouldn't touch the stitches. Which, of course, he hated.
Luckily he was pretty tired by then (seeing as it was 12:45 and he's just been screaming for 15 minutes), so he went to sleep pretty quickly.
We got home at 1:30 and he slept with us so that we could make sure he didn't mess with his stitches. He would get anxious if he realized his mommy wasn't right next to him, so I didn't sleep too well.

Funny thing was, I was going to have him in bed by 7:30 that night because he had a Dr. appointment at 8:45 this morning.
So we woke up at 7:50 this morning and headed out to the Dr.'s office. Alex's previous experience was pretty fresh in his head, so he did NOT like being there. He cried when we went in the little room. Cried when the nurse wanted to weigh and measure him and take his temperature. And cried every time someone would come in the room.
You can imagine how much he loved getting his toe pricked and a shot in each leg.
Poor guy.
He's now asleep and I'm hoping that he will take 2 LONG naps today to make up for last night.

Oh, and here are his stats:
15 months old
23 lbs 10 oz, 30%
33in, 94%
and head circumference 46 cm, 20%

and some pictures of his little head

before. It was just a little cut, but wide enough that we didn't think we could keep it closed and that it would result in a large scar without stitches.





and after. Just a bandaid over the stitches. We'll get a picture of the actual stitches later.