Landry's Big Boo-Boo

It's been a little while since we have had a huge big bump, bruise, broken bone, etc., so Landry decided to put us out of our breathless anticipation. The boys have given us our share of breathtaking moments. Gibson fell off of a merry-go-round at the park and hit his eye in one of the worst black eyes that I have every seen. His eye was completely swollen shut for a month and was purple for at least two months.
Shortly after this incident, he added two other huge bumps to his head. I just knew that CPS was coming.

When Hayden was 15 months old, he jumped out of his crib and broke his leg. There is nothing more pathetic than seeing a baby hobble around in a cast... I don't have a digital picture of that, but you can imagine.

Grace has not really hurt herself like the boys. (You know that I am running to find some wood to knock on!)

Landry tried to catch up with the boys and make sure that she wasn't left out. You know, that's the way she does everything in life...

We had gotten home from school and I was putting everything away and trying to start dinner. Shane came home in the middle of the chaos that is us coming home. The younger three had been horse playing around and running back and forth hollering and screaming. We pulled Gib into the kitchen to work on homework. Landry and Hayden were off continuing their madness. From the other room, we heard Landry start crying and Hayden, in a panicked voice, called for us to "come here, quick!" I ran in to find Landry pulling herself from the floor and covered in blood. She had fallen out of the chair and hit the windowsill behind the chair. Of course head wounds bleed, but there was a lot of blood. It was all over her, all over the floor and dripping everywhere that she moved. We put her in the shower to try to wash her off and see just how bad it was. She was freaking out because she was bleeding and screaming for us to "put a band-aid on it!"

Once we got her calmed down enough to clean it off and see how bad it was, we decided that we definitely were going to have to go the ER. Our experience in the past has always been a long wait, but we walked in and they immediately saw us. We didn't even have time to fill out the paperwork in the waiting room. We went straight back and saw the pediatric surgeon. She cleaned up her head, flipped her on her stomach and put in two staples - lickety split. We were in and out in 30 minutes! That is some service! (We haven't gotten the bill yet...)
This was the boo-boo. She cried a little over the staples, but perked up over the popsicle and stickers.
She has asked to go back to the hospital a couple of times so that she can get some more stickers. We have already been back and visited the doctor to have the staples removed, so this is a chapter that is over. Praying for no new excitement for awhile.