Jesse's first... stitches!

Not exactly how we had planned to start out Kacen's fifth birthday. We stayed out late and so we woke up later than usual, I started chores and gave the kids baths so that we wouldn't have to do that at the end of the day and we could just do fun birthday things. So the boys were done bathing, Jesse was dressed(his pants were a little long), I had gotten Abbi in the tub and Jesse had decided to follow Paul down the stairs and tripped over his pants, down the stairs and in to the shoe shelf at the bottom.

Paul reacted well, picked Jesse up took him to the bathroom and applied pressure to the wound. Taped it up and then headed to instacare, glad to have an alternative to the ER on a Saturday afternoon. they warned me first thing after seeing the Dr. that they do not use sedation and I might have to go to the ER if he couldn't hold still. It was not a pretty wound, the doctor thought that he might need to do two layers of stitches and was playing inside of Jesse's head before stitching it and pointing out that he could see bone in there and tissue that might need to be sewn. Thankfully Jesse only needed one layer of stitches, though there are many stitches on the top layer.
Thank goodness that with the male nurse holding Jesse's head in place and me holding his hands and talking to him helping to stay calm, he was perfectly still (almost) the whole time.
He wiggled once or twice when the dr had thread hanging over in top Jesse's face while he was looping it in knots and tying it. Or when he was stitching it and accidentally caught a strand of Jesse's hair in the stitch than Jesse would whine and wiggle just a little. But a slight adjustment from the nurse and reassurance from mom, he was fine once again.
Hitting Pinatas and playing with friends at Kacen's birthday he was one super happy kid. Not even phased by the owie on his head!