Emily's first stitches

Our little princess got her first set of stitches. John was playing with the kids out back on the swings and Emily's swing got cockeyed and hit the play set causing a huge gash in her forehead. John came rushing in and both he and Emily were covered in blood. I didn't realize heads bleed so darn bad. With the help of a neighbor who took Mac and Ollie to their house, John and I headed off with Emily to the ER.

After about an hour we finally saw a doc. Emily was doing fairly well so he tried to numbing the wound. She was a trooper but then started freaking out and kind of lost it, the doc couldn't get close to her. So they went off to get ready to put and IV in for sedation when she fell asleep (doc said it was ok since he wasn't concerned she had a concussion). She was exhausted since she hadn't had a nap, we had kept her up since we were supposed to go out on a date tonight and we wanted the babysitter to have an easy bedtime! Anyway, when they came in to put the IV the doc said, "let's give it a try while she's asleep", sure enough he as able to suture the lower layer of skin. Then he put glue on the outer skin, which he said is better then sutures. Our baby girl will have a scar but at least it's in her forehead, it could have been worse. She was doing well by bedtime, hopefully she feels ok in the morning.