Hudson received his 1st 2 stitches Sept. 15.
The story: Well, we've had a problem with Hudson being naughty at school lately. It has been a challenge to discipline him for it and figure out creative ways to nip it in the bud (especially since he doesn't act this way at home). We moved his fish, Charlie Cook, out of his room. As soon as he earned him back, he went back to being naughty at school. Then we took all of his toys and cartoons away (except for books and puzzles) and he has had to earn those back. He also had to go straight to bed as soon as we got home one day to really make a point. Then the golden ticket arrived in my hands! He was invited to 2 really cool birthday parties and both are on Sept. 25th. I started a chart to count down the days until the birthday parties. Each day he is good at school, he can put a star sticker on that day. If he gets enough stars then he will get to go to the parties. So far this has worked! He has finally been really good every day for an entire week now. On the way to school yesterday, the day of the stitches, Jason was praising him for being so good. Hudson asked if he could go to Mrs. Donald's for ice cream and to play if he was good the whole day. {Side note: He calls McDonald's Mrs. Donalds. He also thinks Wendy from Wendy's is a real lady. I took him there to get a Frosty one day and he said, "Mama, I sure do like Wendy. She is a really nice girl!".} So anyway, the boys called me before I left for work and asked if I would take Hudson to Mrs. Donald's after work if he was good. I agreed. Then I picked both him and London up after work and right after his teacher told me he was good, he asked if I was taking him to Mrs. Donald's for real food and ice cream. Since I was in heels, a dress, and had London with me, I thought maybe I could get out of going inside since he didn't mention playing. We went through the drive through and ordered a Happy Meal and ice cream and started to drive away. He became really upset as I started to drive away and he asked why we weren't going inside to play. I gave in after making him promise to leave easily when it was time to leave. His friend from school, Cameron, was also there with his Dad and Brother. Cameron and Hudson were having the best time playing together when all of the sudden we heard a big fall that ended with a loud 'smacking' sound...then came the screaming cry. Cameron's Daddy and I jumped up and searched the giant play area for the crying kid. I found Hudson in the stairwell leading up to the tunnels. He had fallen down the stairs and his head hit one of the steps. I had London in my arms so Cameron's Dad quickly climbed inside the playcenter, very calmly talked to Hudson while looking him over for wounds. He noticed the back of his head was bleeding quite a bit and he brought Hudson out. It was a little tough to keep London wrangled while I was cleaning up Hudson's head to see how bad the cut was. I was so lucky to have Cameron's Dad there. He quickly brought ice, lots of paper towels, he helped me clean everything up and he even put Hudson's shoes back on for me. As soon as Hudson stopped crying, he asked for his Happy Meal toy and I knew he was all right! We went home and I cleaned him up some more and got a better look at the gash in his head. We called Dr. Black to get his opinion if we should take Hudson to the ER or not and he said yes. Jason went ahead and took him while I staid home and got London to bed. He sent me the picture updates below and bragged how brave and tough Hudson was the whole time. He said everyone at the ER were completely amazed at how well he did!
Here he is getting his vitals checked. Jason said Hudson told the Dr. that he had all of those things in his Dr. kit at home but he didn't have an office yet.
Here he is getting the wound cleaned out:
I thought this was his bandage when I first saw the picture but Jason said it was some sort of local anesthetic they applied before giving him a shot to numb the wound so they could stitch it up.
He knew Gigi had been in the ER twice this past week so he wanted to call her to tell her he was there too. He told her and Papa all about what happened!
They finally arrived back home and he was so excited to show me all of the stickers they gave him! This morning he asked me if we could go back to Mrs. Donald's to play. I told him his head needs to heal first. Kids are so resilient...they just bounce right back!
