What a Day!

I had quite the day yesterday. It started off with Brenna keeping me on my toes during the morning. She likes to get into the trash and yesterday morning she kept pulling out the cereal bags with the crumbs in the bottom. As I would clean up one mess, she would go in the next room and make another! That happened three times until I took the half empty trash bag out to the garbage in the garage. Then she discovered she could stand on she little chair and play with the dishes in the sink that hadn't been loaded into the dishwasher yet. I moved her chair to another room and all was great until she found it again. Then back to the sink she went! Now the chair is hiding in the utility room.

Cayden had speech yesterday morning and the battery in the van died while I waited in the parking lot during his class. It didn't take too long to find someone with jumper cables to get me going again, thankfully. I was afraid it wouldn't start again when I had to take him to preschool, but no problems there.

I had much to do on my "To Do" list while Brenna was napping and Cayden was at school. It didn't get done because I was stuck on the couch with cramps. And I missed out on my running because of them! Things went pretty smoothly until we started getting ready for bed. Cayden went running down the hall after his bath and the wall jumed out and got him. He hit right on the corner and cut himself pretty good. There was NO doubt that he would need stitches. This is his biggest cut so far! I got his head bandaged up and off to urgent care we went. (I am so grateful that Jared was home!)

I get to Kaiser Permanente and find out that they've changed the hours for urgent care and they are now only open on the weekends! I just stared at the sign and thought, "You've got to be kidding me! My little boy is dazed, bleeding, and hurting and they are CLOSED!". I call the number on the sign to listen to a recording of other locations and hours and there isn't anything open in Vancouver! The nearest location is about 30min away in Portland. I tried to talk to an advice nurse for directions and of course, no one answered. Jared had to look it up at home to give me directions.

I had to stop and get gas to make it there and Cayden was alseep before I made it to the gas station. (I later releaized that I lost my debit card there and had to call and cancel it when I got home! I was so focused on getting him to the doctor and HOW to get there, that I don't remember what I did with it. Luckliy, I grabbed the checkbook before I left so I could still pay the co-pay.) I made it to urgent care without any problems and even found a parking spot right outside the entrance. We got there and waited and WAITED. We spent 2 1/2 hours there.

Cayden was his normal self by the time they were ready to do the stitches. I was worried about him for awhile because he was groggy and hurting. By the time they came in, he was rolling around on the doctor's stool on his tummy. He did great for the stitches. He didn't need to be restrained and he didn't even cry! They couldn't believe how calm he was...you would have thought he was asleep. They gave him the syringe they cleaned the wound with and the nurse gave him five stickers for being so good. The doctor came back and said he deserved more than stickers and gave him a teddy bear which, he named "Stitches".

We didn't get home until 10:30pm. Cayden had ice cream for being so brave and then it didn't take too long for him to fall asleep. He had to sleep with his new bear. I'm so glad that he is okay and I'm getting use to these trips to urgent care. Even though it was a hard day for me, I could see the blessings. It could have been a lot worse!