I Thought Mother's Day Weekend was Supposed to be Relaxing!

I knew this would be a busy weekend. My brother graduated from college Saturday. It was a nice day. C-dub got squirmy during the ceremony, so we went outside where there happened to be an Ag Ed horse show going on next door. We watched the horses and C-dub got to pet a couple of them. Now, if you know my son, you know that he LOVES animals of all kinds. Getting to pet horses absolutely made his day.

We enjoyed a nice late lunch after the graduation and then headed home. C-dub fell asleep during the 30-minute drive. We had a good evening playing and relaxing...until....this happened:

C-dub and I have been playing this game where he runs to me from across the room saying "Go, go, go", I catch him and then let him go and he runs back and then we do it all over again...and again...and again. Well, we have this bench in our entryway that has doors on the bottom...with knobs. And there was a rug...that was wrinkled. Do you see what's coming?

C-dub tripped over the wrinkle in the rug and hit his head on the knob. It sounded horrible. When he got up and turned around, screaming, it looked even worse. Blood pouring down his face. I grabbed him up while Will grabbed something to put some compression on the wound. Meanwhile there was blood all over him and all over me.

Once we got it slowed to a trickle and could actually look at what we had, we decided to clean up a bit and then head to either the hospital or the minor emergency clinic. It looked like he would need stitches.

We tried the minor emergency clinic first. They were still open. Hurray! So much better and faster than the hospital ER! We got right in and the doctor came pretty quickly. She took a look and decided she would clean it out and close it with glue (did you know they could super glue your head back together?).

Holding C-dub down while the doc and nurse irrigated the wound with saline and then patched him up with the super glue stuff was almost as bad as when the blood was pouring down his face. Once it was over with, though, he seemed ok. No concussion, no other concerns...but I'm sure he's had one nasty headache since.

I keep telling myself it could have been worse...and then I remember all the blood...but really, it could have been worse.

Oh the joys of being mom to a toddler boy.

Today, Mother's Day, we went to church and then had family over. We enjoyed steak cooked on the grill and visited for awhile. While Will was cooking a light dinner, C-dub decided it would be a good idea to "ride" Chaos (our 125 lb. lab-newfoundland mix). Maybe it was the horses from the day before or his rocking horse. Who knows?

Anyway, she was ok with it for a minute until we realized what was going on. Will told C-dub to get down, which he was complying with, when Chaos turned and nipped him on the face. No blood, no marks really, but C-dub screamed...again. I think it hurt his feelings more than anything. Though I don't entirely blame the dog, if it happens again, we'll be finding a new home for her. Hopefully C-dub learned his lesson.

Silly me...I thought Mother's Day weekend was supposed to be relaxing. Maybe I'll relax when I'm dead.