A day at the ER

So, we recently had our first experience with one of our kids requiring stitches....and it was a bloody one at that. I was at the grocery store when Lydia tripped, fell forward, and smacked her head on the bottom bar of the shopping cart. So you can imagine us covered in blood sitting on the cookie aisle waiting for an ambulance (the store clerk called the ambulance since we didn't know how bad her head wound was). The EMTs got there and checked out Lydia's head. They said she would need to go get it looked at but they wouldn't need to take her in the ambulance. To make a long story short, 5 stitches and 3 1/2 hours in the emergency room later Lydia was fine. She was so brave and patient. Her stitches came out yesterday and she's doing great.

Here's the brave girl after getting home from the ER complete with a hospital
bracelet, a bandaid over her stitches, and blood streaks on her shirt.