Mama Bear strikes again.

This Christmas we had a good week with the fam. Sure there was drama, but thankfully it went well and everyone had a good time. The biggest drama came Friday night, two days after Christmas. We had finished up  the family dinner and the kids were watching a movie in the living room. The adults were drinking coffee and having cookies in the dining room (thankfully just coffee!) Suddenly we heard a loud thud from the living room followed by my niece screaming and my son crying. I was the first to run to the other room to find my kid doing his hyperventilating cry. I hugged him into my arms and then noticed blood was squirting out of the back of his head. Yes, squirting.

I screamed and (maybe) flipped out. I put my hand over his head and a second later my palm was covered in blood. Someone had grabbed a wad of paper towels by that time and handed them to me but within seconds that too was soaked through. Thank goodness I was wearing red pants and a black shirt because I got a lot of blood on me. Someone else ran to the linen closet and brought me a real towel which I wrapped around his head and firmly placed pressure on his wound. A few minutes later we pulled the towel off and carried him to the bathroom to rinse off his head and assess the damage. Oh man, it was a deep, deep laceration. After rinsing it there was still a lot of blood coming out so I held him in my arms and pressed the towel against his head. I climbed into the passenger seat of my mom's car and held my baby boy in my arms while keeping pressure on his head with the towel. Mr.P hopped in the drivers seat and off we went to the hospital 1.5 miles away (funny side note...the car we took? My mom's brand new 2014 Subaru Outback she had just purchased the day before. Yup, we took our bleeding kid off in her brand new car. Thankfully the interior is black, and the bleeding had slowed down a lot by the time we were in the car).

The hospital staff were very nice and got us in and out in under an hour. I totally get it - parents show up with their toddler bleeding from the head they just have to make sure it really was an accident, so we were asked what happened over, and over, and over again. Little P5 was a trooper, he was pretty calm until it was time to clean/staple his wound. The nurse wrapped a sheet around his arms and torso to keep him from flailing his arms, but it took her holding his head, me holding his body, and Mr.P holding his legs to keep him still while the doctor cleaned the area and stapled the head. They then wrapped a bandage around his head and sent us on our way. Poor guy will get the staples out in another week or so.

Nobody really saw what happened but my two nieces, M2 and P5 were all in the living room watching the movie. P5 was reportedly jumping on an easy chair near the TV and we assume he fell off of that and hit his head on the corner of the TV stand - that is the only thing near where he was that was sharp enough to put such a gash in his head. My poor nieces were so traumatized by the whole thing - they had never seen so much blood before. My mom was also traumatized as she had a pool of blood on her living room carpet (about 20 minutes before the episode my mom got mad at the kids for getting cookie crumbs on the carpet...kind of puts things in perspective).

Thankfully the little guy will be alright. It's so scary to have something like that happen so fast, and to realize how much worse it could have been. Friday night my sister took M2 back to her house to have a sleepover with her cousins. I let P5 curl up against me in bed for the night which he found quite comfortable and insisted on doing Saturday night as well. I am now one tired mama but again, so thankful my little guy will be OK.