OUCH!

Well, it happened. One of those firsts that you really wish your child never has...the first trip to the Emergency Room :( This particular first happened for Allie last Sunday morning. The girls had spent the night at Matt's parents house on Saturday night so that Matt and I could have a date night and do some of our Christmas shopping together. We, of course, planned on a nice, quiet night together, followed by a nice, quiet morning of sleeping in. Well, it didn't quite happen that way.

On Sunday morning at about 4:00 in the morning we got 'the call'. Allie had fallen out of bed and hit her head on the nightstand. It's so weird because she has been in a 'big bed' since she was 20 months old and has NEVER fallen out. AND, she's spent the night at both Matt's parents house and my parents house hundreds of times and again, has never fallen out (she sleeps in a QUEEN too!) She must have been having a bad dream or something and wiggled really close to the edge and gone overboard. Anyways, we immediately got in the car to go pick her up. Luckily she wasn't crying anymore when we got there but we took one look at her and knew immediately that we needed to take her to the ER. My brother always told me that unless we were calling 911 we should always take our kids to Phoenix Children's Hospital so that's what we did and we were soooo glad.

Allie was awesome pretty much the entire time we were there. We had to do a LOT of waiting (we were there for over 3 hours) but she was smiling, laughing and playing. She got to watch movies (all of the rooms have tv's and dvd players in them) so she was very entertained. The cut happened right above her left eye and was partly in her eyebrow. This is a good thing when it comes to scaring but bad because they could have just used the Dermabond (glue) to close it, but apparentely it doesn't work in hair so they had to stitch it. She totally lost it when they had to give her the shots to numb it (I don't blame her!) and she wasn't too happy when the doctor was stitching it, but she really did a good job and was perfect as soon as it was over.

I never thought our cautious little princess would get her first big ouchie this early but I'm glad it was VERY minor and that it's OVER! And so is she!

Yikes :(

Luckily she was happy most of the time

So glad it's over!

All stitched up!

Of course we took her to Target after and let her pick out whatever she wanted (at that point we probably would have gotten her an iPad if she wanted it, we felt so bad for her) Lucky for us, she wanted the chef's outfit (really she just wanted the hat:)