Our First Trip to the ER

I knew that it was bound to happen sooner or later, but to my surprise it happened to the one I least expected. KATE! Like Mother like Daughter. For those who know how accident prone I am I certainly hope that she doesn't fall in her Mother's footsteps. Well, I was having a business meeting over at a friends house and I had all the kids with me as usual. They were trying to find things to keep them busy and of course the couch is always enticing to run and jump on. So the three of them were chasing each other, even after I warned them to stop, and Kate started to jump up and down against the back. Well the couch was up against the window and had a marble window sill. Needless to say she bobbed her head and split her nose open from side to side. She screamed for a minute and then she was fine. Acting like nothing happened.
I knew that it needed stitches so I took her in to the ER and waited. Kate was such a trooper. We were there for almost 5 hours and she laughed and jumped around the entire time. The doctors kept coming in and telling me that the ER wasn't suppposed to sound so happy and they loved to play with Kate. I'd say that I'm pretty used to being around things of this nature and that it really doesn't bother me, but watching them stitch her up my heart just ached for her as she screamed. They used a numbing gel instead of a local anesthetic and it obviously didn't work. So after they did 4 stitches they decided that the gel wasn't working good enough and give her a local. I could have yelled at them, but didn't. Finally, 6 stitches later we went home from a long exhausting day. The boys felt so bad for Kate and were soo careful with her for the rest of the day. That didn't last very long!