Two Blue Stitches

This past Friday night the girls and I were spending some time with friends when an accident happened that sent our baby girl to the emergency room....

We finished dinner and went upstairs. The girls were all playing and putting on dress-up clothes and the grown ups were about to sit down and talk when Carley cried out a panicked yell from the kids room. I ran to the room to see my baby Zoe on the floor with blood all over her face. I was instantly panicked and almost just as quickly very calm as I grabbed her up in my arms.
She had been looking for a baby doll to play with and climbed up on the top of one of the bunk beds. Zoe has always been a little climber, since she could walk! And she is very cautious. But this time she just happened to loose her balance as she was leaning over the edge awkwardly trying to climb back down. She fell and hit her face on the ladder of one of the bunk beds (there were two positioned in an "L" shape in the room). My friends Crystal and Adrienne were amazing, they jumped into action and got what we needed to clean the wound between her eyes and keep cold pressure on it to make the bleeding stop. They prayed over her. They got my phone and I called Jeremy, who was scouting at a football game. He came right away and we drove her to the emergency room while Carley stayed with our friends. All the girls and the moms prayed for us and Zoe was completely calm and smiling the whole time as we raced to the hospital (me holding a compress over her face the whole way).
She was the best patient ever in the emergency room, just a happy little girl.....with a deep gash between her eyes. The Lord's mercies are so beyond compare! He gave her such a calm spirit and we were all calmer because of it. I hate to think how much worse the fall could have been. We were very fortunate.

They cleansed the wound and used a numbing cream on it. She watched curiously as they poked and prodded and checked her out.

 They wrapped her up like a little burrito to keep her from moving her hands and she was perfectly content. She didn't even flinch when they gave her shots in her face and then sewed in two blue stitches.

 She sat up and smiled when they were done and told them "Thank you for my stitches".

Love this precious, tough little stinker!

It's been five days now and she didn't even get black eyes! Wow!

Today we go to the doctor to get the two little blue stitches taken out.

We will also be seeing our pediatrician about Carley's asthma to see if she needs to start doing her inhaler again, praying that she won't have to.

And tomorrow it's off to the dentist for both girls!

Gee, I think we're getting our fill of the doctors visits this month!

Can we please be done after the dentist?!?