SOMETIMES IT HURTS BEING A BROTHER!

Jared was out hanging up the Christmas lights and Tyler and Eli were outside playing. The playing turned into fighting when Tyler decided to take something away from Eli. Eli had a hammer in his hand and decided to throw it at him in anger...it nailed him in the back of the head and Tyler started crying and the blood started flowing.

I could hear Tyler crying from inside the house and I could hear Jared telling him to go inside and see me, while he climbed down from the ladder. I went to see what was going on because Tyler doesn't really cry like that so I knew it couldn't be good. As I rounded the corner he was coming to me and I could see blood on his hands and Eli was right behind him and he was crying saying he didn't mean to hurt him. I asked him what he did and he told me he threw a hammer at him. "YOU THREW A HAMMER?!"  I made him go get me the hammer while I examined Tyler and when Eli came back he showed it to me and it was just a rubber Thor hammer that happen to hit Tyler on his head by the only hard part on the whole stupid thing.

I got Tyler all cleaned up and realized he was going to need stitches again. Jared and I calmly and sweetly told Tyler who was not crying at this point that he would need stitches. That's when all hell broke loose. Tyler does NOT do anything that has to do with stitches, not after his last traumatic expierence. He was bawling. Tyson couldn't take it anymore and couldn't even be in the same room as his sad brother so he left the room crying and we sent Emma after Tyson to comfort him.

We then decided to try and make a deal with Tyler. He had to let us shave his head and put some butterfly bandages on it so close it up ourselves and if that worked, great no stitches...if it didn't, he would be out of luck and to urgent care we would go.

Tyler was so nervous and scared he sucked his fingers while we shaved his head - he is NOT a finger sucker. We got him all shaved and bandaged up and replaced the bandaids about an hour later when the blood was soaking through. We never took him in and it is now 4 days later and it seems to be fine - although the bandaids are still on there and we aren't allowing them to get wet for a couple more days, we are treating it as if it had actual stitches in it. Just for the record, had the cut been on the front of his face or some where else where the scar would be visible, we would have taken him in and dealt with the drama but because it was on the back of his head and after his hair grows back it will cover it, we spared ourselves, Tyler and the poor doctor and nurses who would have had to deal with him...it was my Christmas gift to all :)