Ouch!

Simon is truly his mother's child, as I am my mother's child.  But unfortunately this heredity includes clumsiness, curiosity, and other things which make bodily harm a part of life.  This wasn't his first trip to the ER; he went before for croup.  

On January 31st Simon was kneeling on the couch with with hands on the coffee table.  He was holding a toy in his hand.  Just as I was telling him not to do that and that it wasn't safe, his hand slipped and he landed face first against the edge of the coffee table.  

We dropped Piper off at our friend's house and headed to the ER.  At the ER, we waited in the Pediatric ER.  They gave Simon a doctor teddy bear wearing scrubs, stickers, and a hospital coloring book with crayons.  

Five stitches and three and a half hours later and he's as good as new.  Well, not exactly as good as new; they had a plastic surgeon do the stitches and in the follow-up, Dr. Layke told us to massage the scar to break up the hard tissue and apply a scar-minimizing medicine.  Simon lets me rub it and put the medicine on since "Dr. Layke says..."