Quite a week

And it's only Wednesday. On Saturday, Ben was playing around as we were getting in to bed. Just as I said, "Ben, no, stop" He fell against the side of the bed. Right on to his eye. Right after it happened it looked like a hard not. Today, 4 days later, he has a bruise around his whole eye, looking like he was in a fist fight. He also has 2 small red dots near his eye, I think they may be cuts. It looks horrible, but it could have been much worse, he could have hurt his eye :(

This is what it looked like right after.

On Sunday, we went to the Great Midwest Train show. The kids all had a lot of fun. Ben loved seeing all of the trains. The girls did too. They also loved looking at all of the stuff for sale. They had a few Halloween type things for sale that we bought. They also sold ice cream and we all shared a root beer float. Well, I drank the rot beer part, the girls and Ben ate all the ice cream out of it ;) All in all it was a very nice day.

Watching trains

Great Midwest Train show

Monday night, we were walking up the stairs to go to bed. Ben wanted to bring a toy up with him. I told him "no, you have too many things in your hand. You need to just walk." He dropped his toy and I turned around to pick it up. Just as I turned around to see where it went, Ben fell down the stairs and hit his head on the baby gate. At first I thought it was just that his legs got hurt. But then, I saw all the blood. He was losing a lot of blood from his head. His shirt was covered in it and so was mine and my pants. He did throw up one time as well, which made me worry about a concussion.  Joe got dressed and took him to Edward Er. He was still screaming at that point, but Joe said as they were driving he stopped screaming. Joe said that he was going really fast to get there in a hurry and Ben liked that. Later on when they got home Ben told me "Daddy drived me really fast on the sidewalks." No, Joe did not actually drive on the sidewalks, but he did try to get there in a hurry. When they got there, the first thing they did was clean him up and put a bandage around his head to try to stop the bleeding and figure out what was going on. Then they did a CT, which they did not even need to sedate him for. I was shocked. I figured they would definitely need to sedate him for that, but Joe said he was fine. The CT came back normal, so they put in 2 staples (which Ben asked me yesterday, "can you take these things off my head?") and said he was ok to go home, they had talked to cardiology, and cardiology also agreed he was fine. He could take a bath or shower the next day. I did wipe him down before school. They said he was ok to go to school because he did not have a brain bleed or concussion. I still woke up all night long checking on him, because, I'm a mom. I mean, obviously. His teachers said he had a great day and did not slow down at all despite the head wound and his eye wound. I felt weird going in with him all bruised and broken. Like "here's my broken son. No, we honestly did not do this too him. No really, he truly did fall. Twice this weekend." I do want to ask his PT about it tomorrow. Like is he having stability issues? Or is this normal 2ish year old stuff? SO, that is our week so far. I hope everyone else has had a much calmer week than us! :)

Bandaged up after they cleaned him off

Getting his CT scan

All one getting staples in. Such a brave boy. He got a popsicle