Charlotte's First Stitches!

While we were at the fair Friday night, Charlotte stayed at Grandmother's house and had a little accident. She loves to run, and this is the age that all of the bumps and bruises happen! While playing in the living room, Charlotte tripped and hit her head on the coffee table. She must have hit it right on the corner. Helen said it bled pretty bad at first but quickly stopped, but she knew it probably needed a stitch. She called us to let us know what happened and since I didn't leave a carseat, she had one of her friends pick the two of them up and take them to the urgent care center. She actually needed 3 stitches! Helen said Charlotte was really good and didn't even cry that much while they did the stitches.

The next day, I took her back to the doctor so that he could look at it and make sure it was healing ok. That's where I took these pictures. Nathan LOVED being there and acting like he was the daddy! He kept telling Charlotte to be a big girl and not to cry. Really, he couldn't wait to see what the stitches looked like. They put a band aid over her head, so none of us had seen the actual stitches until the next day when the doctor took it off to examine it. Nathan was so funny because he kept wanting to look at it. At night, he loves to help me (he opens the band aid) take off the old one and put a new one on. We go back on Tuesday, Day 4, to get them taken out.

Even though Charlotte has an ouchie, I think she looks so beautiful in these pictures!

And to add to the cut on her head, she has a cut on her lip where she fell with me and bit her lip, and there's another bruise on the other side of her head where Nathan tried to "help" her onto the couch...I need to keep this girl in a bubble!