#3

Miss Sunshine has brought to my life 3 experiences that a mother dreads and most of the time fears! She is definitely my monkey! She has turned into a wild child for sure. She climbs, she jumps, she eats whatever she finds, she has me on my feet all day...chasing her!

Yesterday was just another wild day for her and I! She and Wild Man were playing and they were jumping on his bed. I always tell them no and put them down just for them to hop right back on it 2 minutes later! Well today was no different, except we got a nasty boo-boo from it. Sunshine was jumping and fell into the corner of the window seal that is next to his bed. She had a small cut above her right eyebrow! I immediately knew it needed stitches. She was quite the trooper though. She let me clean her up, clean the cut and bandage her up until we could get to the ER.

Well we get to the ER, just her and I. J stayed home with the other kiddos. We waited almost 4 hours. She was remarkably good for a 4 hour wait. I was complemented by 2 older women on how well she was for being 22 months and waiting so long! We did make at least 4 visits to the snack machines though, lol!

When we finally got in the room she saw a bed with a pillow and was so excited. It was way past her bedtime and I brought her bed stuff...blankie, baby doll and her bottle!!! She got up their and laid down on the fluffy pillow and covered up and was ready to go to sleep. Then the "mean lady" came in to mess with her. They used a numbing cream and waited 20 minutes. Then the ugliness started. I was already crying because she was starting to pucker due to being pinned down. My poor baby screamed and cryed while getting her 3 stitches and so did I ( well minus the screaming)! When she was all done I picked her up and loved on her while the doctor was cleaning everything up. Then the doctor came over to see how she was and Sunshine says "Mommy gib me boo-boo"! I freaked out because the whole time she was getting stitched up I was singing to her ( in a horrible crying out of tune voice) and reassuring her that it wasn't me who was doing it. I felt so bad for her! She did get 2 suckers out of the whole ordeal which made everything ok, lol!

She is the baby of my 4 kids and I have had to expereince a febrile seizure at 16 months, a knocked out a tooth at 20 months and now stitches at 22 months! All of these bad experiences have happened to HER! She is one who I know I can not take my eye off of for a second now. She is prone to accidents and prone to getting injuries. My son was and still is wild. but I haven't ever had to deal with anything but a scrape here and there. I thought for sure he would be the first for this! She is just nuts and needs 24 hour survalence I think, lol!!!

We go back in 5 days for the wonderful removal of her stitches...which I am sure will be just as big of a fit as getting them put in ;( Wish us luck, not just on the removal, but for her over all... that we don't get anymore bad boo-boos or trips to the ER!