Never boring in a home with kids!

Last night right at bedtime Trinity came running full speed ahead into the living room and went down hard. Her sweet sister picked her up and brought her to mom for loving up. I saw a little bit of blood on her neck so I did a quick check for bloody nose or bit lip/tongue, nothing.... So I start searching for the source, under the long hair, along the neck, up the neck, right to the top of her ear where it was split wide open! (about where someone would get their cartiledge pierced) It was quite obvious that stitches were in order, so kids started running around for tissues to soak up the blood while trying not to frighten her.
I am ever so glad to have kids who can drive at times like this. I didn't want to dress her with all the bleeding, and I really wanted to get moving and not make things worse, so we wrapped her in a blanket and headed to the car, which wouldn't even remotely turn over. So, out and into the van........ Drew was driving and I made Kaytlin call her dad at church to meet me there because Trinity had split her ear wide open on the floor. (Kaytlin had heard the commotion but didn't know what was up yet)
Drew drove while I held my poor bleeding baby and tried to explain to her that we were going to the doctor to get her ear fixed like we'd had her finger fixed a few months ago. So, this sweet little 2yo says "Oh, go to the dr and fix ear, I get a popsicle! I want a red one." She remembered the popsicles they gave her while waiting for stitches in June and didn't care about the whole stitches thing at all!
Drew dropped me off and then was heading to the church to make sure dad could be found. But before we even saw the triage nurse Donnie was in the ER with me, Drew had run into him in the parking lot! LOL But he was told that Trinity had lost a part of her ear on the floor! LOL He was much relieved to see the ear was all there.
It took a couple of hours of waiting, and Drew bringing us some clothes since it turned out Trin was naked, completely naked, just like in June when she needed stitches in her finger, lol. The nurses gave her a total of 3 popsicles and a stuffed kitty that she named Blackie. So when the dr. came in to stitch her up we laid her on dad's chest with her bad ear up and she just laid there as the doctor stitched her up. Not only didn't she scream or cry, she didn't flinch or even bat an eyelash!

Praise God, the ear went together in one stitch, even the doctor thought would take more than that! We were pretty sure it would take 4, but the perfectly placed stitch happened to line everything up perfectly and all was well! Now we just have to be sure of not getting it infected as cartiledge "melts" when it is infected, causing a deformed ear.

On the wonderful front, our house is nice and warm now with a working furnace at a wonderful price! Warm enough for a potty training 2yo to run around naked, lol.