First ER visit

We are officially parents now. We had our first ER visit with Gavin last weekend. We were in the pool at Nik's house and Gavin was having a blast jumping from the edge of the Pool into Steve's arms. He got really excited and jumped to Steve...but Steve wasn't looking. Gavin banged Steve in the forehead really hard. Gavin started to cry and Steve made a loud noise then he threw Gavin over to me. Blood was coming from somewhere..not sure at that point. Trying not to freak, I quickly get out of the pool. I look at Steve and his head is not bleeding so I knew it was Gavin. We sit him down on the side of the pool and blood is gushing out of his chin.

He split open his chin on Steve's forehead. We apply pressure with a towl and get it to sorta stop. We knew it was too big for a band aid and we quickly get dressed since we were all sopping wet in our bathing suits. We weren't sure if we were in for a long night so we didn't want to be wet dogs in the ER. Fifteen minutes or less, we are at the ER. Luckily is was a slow night.

We got Gavin admitted and the doctor's clean the cut. It was pretty deep and open. Hard to watch. But Gavin didn't cry at all once we were there. He laid down very still, closes his eyes while they patched him up. They used skin glue rather than stitches. I was glad since I knew they would have to give him a shot if they did stitches. About an hour later, we were back home. Gavin had a big ouchy and a huge chocolate ice cream cone for being so brave. Ice cream for dinner after a traumatic event is ok by me.