Ouch!

Last week Andrew had his last baseball game and we were all excited to watch.  However, that was short-lived because Adam ended up hurting himself before we even saw the first pitch.  According to a 4 year old eye witness named Preston, Adam was playing and fell down into a raised concrete monument thing.  A nurse just happen to be there and helped Jason clean it up.  A local council member came and found me in the stands and told me that Jason needed help because my little one was hurt.  When I got there and saw that it was Adam I was so surprised.  I thought for sure he was talking about Preston.  The nurse said he needed stitches so we arranged for Andrew to come home with some friends so everyone else could go home and I could go to the ER.

This is Adam in the ER waiting room.  He got a sucker at the ball field and once we made it to the hospital he was his old self.  He was climbing all over the chairs, trying to escape, and trying to push the stroller all over the place.  I kept trying to remind him that his antics were why we were at the ER but that didn't seem to help. :)

The first doctor said they would glue the cut shut and that made me feel better.  But then the head doctor came in and said they really didn't need to do anything.  That was a bummer. Three hours in the ER for them to do nothing.  It's always better safe than sorry though.

We didn't get home until 10:00pm and Adam never acted tired.  I thought for sure he would fall asleep on the 1/2 hour drive home but he didn't.  He still got up at 6:30 the next morning too.  It was like nothing ever happened.

These two pictures were taken the morning after.  Just a little swelling and he's still all smiles.

However, 4 days later his eye did not look good.  It looks like he got a perfect makeup job. :)  He must have fallen really hard.
It will be interesting to see how the cut heals.  Luckily it is right on his eyebrow so hopefully it won't be too noticeable. Like I mentioned before we have been very lucky that he really hasn't been phased by the whole ordeal.  The only time he was upset was right after the accident. Since then he has acted like nothing ever happened to him.  I'm always the one bugging him to look at his eye.

A funny side note about this.  Do you remember a few posts before this about Jason dressed up as the strawberry and how they took him off the field in a stretcher?  Well, at the ER when we were being led back to our room we walked by a stretcher that looked exactly like that one. Adam started yelling and pointing "Daddy! Daddy! Daddy!".  Of course it really sounded like "Da-eeeee!, Da-eeeee!, Da-eeeee!"  It was pretty funny.