Lovely trip to the ER today

Lindsay and I had planned to take the kids to lunch at the middle school and then to the movies for the free movie which was How to Train Your Dragon. We had it all planned out, soda pop in our purses and split the cost of a tub of popcorn.... We were outside having a smoke before loading the kids up and we started hearing the same noises we'd been hearing all day long. Kai crying. Oh how it was a trying day on my nerves today. The kids were fighting, arguing, and just plain making me nuts.  So of course the sound of him crying reminded me of the boy who cried wolf and I was ignoring him.  He came into the living room and I opened the door to see what  he was crying about this time.  He moved his hand and I saw a nice gash in his forehead that didn't look like a bandaid was going to fix :(  My stomach dropped. The thought of stitches and needles makes me ill and I wanted to run and hide in a corner and pretend that never happened. I started having flashbacks of when Kaeden got nailed in the head with a rake and had to get a staple right on the top of his head.  I did ok while they did what needed to be done, but I almost passed out when they were finished. It was horrible.   So I threw my smoke at Lindsay and grabbed a washcloth.  I was getting ready to ask Lindsay's opinion on it when Steven walked in the door for lunch. Unfortunately they both confirmed my suspicions. That needed a trip to the Dr to be looked at :(  So rather then head out to the movies, Lindsay took Kaeden and Kinleigh to her house and I took Kai to the ER.  I was VERY relieved that they were able to glue it rather then stitch it HOORAY!  I think I was probably more happy about the glue then Kai since I knew what was coming and he didn't really understand the concept of needles in his head :(  He was a trooper and I'm pretty sure he learned absolutely nothing from this bonk on the noggin... such is life with a boy!  Oh and I finally got the story on how it happened while we were sitting in the ER waiting on the doc.  I thought he was throwing a tantrum cause he was mad at Kaeden. He kept telling me I was telling Kaeden yes Mom. I said well Honey you don't get a gash in your head by telling your brother yes.  Finally he demonstrated at the ER how he was telling his brother yes. Apparently Kaeden had asked him to stop hitting him, so he was shaking his head yes very hard up and down (being sarcastic and ornery as usual) and ended up wacking it on the corner of my hope chest.  Ouch!  Life is rarely boring with a Kailer in it!

The booboo

Typical Kai Kai couldn't stand to not give me a smiling picture along with his crying picture ;)  Love that lil man