7 Stitches for Addie...carrying on a tradition!

Feb. 5 night time emergency room visit

About 9:00 PM Lacey called me on her way to the ER...Addie had fallen and hit her forehead on a cabinet...split it open and she ended up needing 7 stitches.  So I met Lacey at the hospital to give her support...we were there until nearly 11 pm.  Addie was a real trooper...NO tears or screaming for her...I must admit by the last two stitches, she was beginning to squirm a little bit and kind of 'whine'..of course she was very happy to get a popsicle when it was all done and the plastic glove blown up was a big hit, especially when the nurse drew a face on it!!  (we played 'catch' with it while waiting for the doctor to come stitch her up...he had another 3 year old boy who had to have head stitches also!!)

Now you are probably wondering about the "tradition"...well, Dina started it when she was a little over two and fell at my parents home and hit her forehead on the coffee table...yup, needed stitches! Then Lacey too needed stitches on her head and her son Caleb had stitches on his forehead when we was three years old...Ellie and Jalen have each had stitches on the head, but not the forehead, they both had them around their lips...so far Lily and Tristan are free from stitches, but they are still young, and a lot can happen in the next few years!