Our new friend

We just got home from Brian's big family dinner at his uncle's house tonight and were getting the boys ready for bed. Tyler walked in to the kitchen and came back out really fast. He said "mom there is something in the kitchen I don't like." I go in thinking it was a spider or a mouse but no no no, it was not at all what I expected. I look at my empty flip flop and see a new pet. . .

Our new friend Lizard the Salamander. He was well loved by Connor especially. When we put him in the sink he was so excited he could barely talk. He was bouncing up and down and kept yelling to tell us everything it was doing. We realeased it over near our woodshed and the boys were sad to see it go, but were excited for it to go home.

The actual stitches

Pardon the dirty face but this is what Tyler looks like now. If you look closely on his forehead you can see the stitches. I took a bunch of pictures tring to get a good shot of the stitches, this is the best I got. Still learning to use the new camera.

First Stitches

They are a little blurry we took them with Brian's phone on our way to the doctor.

Tyler was outside playing after dinner and was chasing after Connor and tripped and hit his head on a cinder block. After some cleaning (the blood was dripping down his face onto his brand new shirt and not so new jeans) we looked at the cut and discussed what to do for a few minutes. I tried to call my friend who is married to an ER doctor but got no answer. We talked some more looked at it some more and I called my mom. She said if it were her she'd probably take him in but since Brian's family doesn't go to the doctor much we may want to super glue and buttterfly bandage it. We talked some more and decided that to avoid a nasty scar we should probably take him in. On our way the the hospital (since it was 8:00 and neither Urgent Care is open that late on a Sunday) we thought we'd stop by my friend's house. They happened to be just walking in the door, well the husband and the son that is Tyler's age. I asked him if he'd look and see what he thought. He said to reduce scarring and speed healing, he'd stitch it. He said he had the stuff there so he could just do it for us right there. We went into the house and he started with a numbing cream and then did some numbing shots and laid Tyler on the dining room table and did 3 stitches. I did not watch. Tyler did really well and held really still even after the shot wore off and he needed one more stitches. He cried a little but within a few seconds of being done he was fine. My friend's two sons gave Tyler a candy and a suction cup ball and he has been happy and content ever since. That was the end of a very long mother's day.