2nd ROUND OF STITCHES FOR THE JENSENS!

Last night we had our 2nd round of stitches. Before I tell the story I must say that the blame for this accident happening should be placed upon me and Jared and not on Emma. Had we put the twins to bed on time, none of this would have happened but we are suckers for the kids playing and getting along so well that we tend to leave them alone for a bit and let them stay up later :)

Jared and I were sitting in the family room working on my homework and all the kids were in our room watching Ironman and playing. We hear a thud and then Tyler starting to cry. I start to just casually walk in there because Tyler is pretty tough and if he cries at all its only for a few seconds and then he is done. I quickly picked up my pace to a light jog when I started hearing Emma saying over and over again, "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I won't do it again! I'm sorry!"

I get to the other side my bed and look down and Tyler is on the ground crying and there is blood running down his face and I am not quite sure where it is coming from. I pick him up and rush him into the kitchen so Jared and I can investigate the situation. Jared puts some water on his face to wash away the blood so we can see what's going on and there it is - a HUGE cut in between his lip and his nose and the sucker is WIDE open.

We are big supporters and fans of the butterfly bandages in our house, we have used them on multiple occasions but this was not going to be one of them. We grabbed a wet napkin and I held it over his cut and pinched it to try and keep it closed as much as possible, put my shoes on, grabbed my keys, couldn't find my cell phone but Jared threw me his and I shouted to him, "Call Stephanie and I will meet you at Urgent Care."

I got in the driver seat, put Tyler on my lap and he straddle me, laid his head on my chest and put his arms around me while I drove to Urgent Care pinching his face with one hand and driving with the other hand. (yes, I know, extremely un-safe - but in my defense - I took all the back roads through my neighborhood and never hit a major street).

I pulled up, looked at the door and it closed at 8pm and it was 8:22pm. I thought, what the heck, I am hear, let's try it. I walked up to the door and didn't see anyone but the TV was still on so I pulled on the door handle and the door opened. I walked in and put Tyler on the counter while he laid his head against me and blood was running down the napkin because it couldn't hold anymore. The receptionist came out and before he could say anything I said, "hi, he needs stitches!" He got big eyes and said, "uh we are closed, but hold on!"

Jared called me a minute later and was on his way. Stephanie was our saving grace and rushed right over to the house without hesitation and stayed with the other kids so Jared could come out and meet me.

Turns out the doctor on duty that night is an ER doctor and he wasn't going to send me to the ER for stitches so he let us stay and took care of us!

First, Tyler gets numbing cream put on and he cries a little from it - I am not sure if it really hurt or if he was just bothered that someone he doesn't know was touching him. Then after he was calmed down the doctor came in and didn't even touch him, he just looked at him and Tyler lost it. He freaked out. The doctor talked to us for a bit and then left and we consoled Tyler and got him to calm down.

After he was good and numbed up the doctor came back in and that's pretty much when I left the room. I can totally take my kids to go to immunization shots and no issues with it, they usually don't cry, but if they do its only for 10 seconds...this kind of pain on top of an injury and the fact that I can only imagine it really is painful makes me to sad so I leave and make Jared deal with it, ha ha. While I was outside the room I could hear Tyler screaming and crying and I could tell it was legit. My heart broke for him. Jared informed me that the doctor took gauze and was scraping out the wound and making sure no bacteria or anything like that was in there. Then he proceeded to shove the other numbing needle way up in his cut, oh poor buddy.

I came into the room so I could help hold Tyler while he got stitched up. I knew he was good and numb, but it's Tyler. Once he makes up his mind about something, there is no changing, no bribe is going to work. He did NOT want to be there anymore and he just wanted to go home. Jared held his head still while the doctor stitched him up and I laid sorta on top of his legs and belly and held his arms. He is a strong little sucker. I don't think his back touched the bed once.

4 stitches later and we were done. We were only gone an hour, pretty easy, we can't complain. All Tyler wanted to do was go home and lay in our bed and finish watching Ironman. His wish is our command. We headed home and were greeted by curious boys and a clean kitchen, lovely Stephanie had done my dishes, what a good friend. The boys came out and were checking Tyler out. They couldn't take their eyes off of him. They kept asking all sorts of questions, what was on his face, how did that string get there, how do you take the string off, things like that. Then the boys took Tyler into our room to watch the movie and Eli took a few moments to point out every corner on the bed, nightstands, etc that could pose a possible threat towards him :) It was dang cute.

I went into Emma's room and even though she was sound asleep I didn't want her going to sleep thinking that we were angry with her or that Tyler was mad or anything like that. I woke her up and she asked, "how's Eli?" I said, "ha ha, you mean Tyler?" "ya, how is Eli doing?" "Emma! you dork, it's Tyler that got hurt! He is home, do you want to come see him?" She finally woke up enough to realize what was going on and she headed to our room. She took her first glance at him and her little heart broke. He looked yucky and she felt bad. We explained he was good and it was no biggie and she gave him a hug and a kiss and headed off to bed. (yes, its important for me to write all these little details down because I want them to know when they get older, how much they loved each other!)The movie finally ended and we got all the boys to bed. Tyler was extra snuggly that night and we loved it. The next morning we took the boys to their play date and left Jared and Tyler home to chill out together so that Tyler wouldn't get hurt again. He was lovin' the time alone. He suckered his dad into all sorts of movies and crap food. Later that night he complained his tummy hurt, guess he had a little too much candy, ha ha!

He is doing great and is just fine. They want to take his stitches out on Monday to try and avoid a railroad track scar on his face. Eli is completely obsessed with coming with me to take him because he HAS to see how they are going to remove them.

Our 2nd round of stitches was much more pleasant than the first one. 2 down and I am sure, many more to go!