Parker vs. the library

The library won this round.

Calming down after the gluing session

Parker tripped in the children's section of the library and banged his face on a mean wooden toy.  He was screaming, and I didn't know whether he just needed a Band-Aid or if it required stitches.  The wound looked pretty big, so I decided to take him to urgent care.  Luckily, he didn't need stitches, but the nurse practitioner had to glue my baby's wound shut!  Poor thing. 

The actual gluing process was worse than the fall: they wrapped him tightly in a sheet so that he could only move his head and held him down on the bed.  He was screaming bloody murder the whole time.  My poor, precious baby.  Thankfully, dada was able to join us, and Parker got a hospital teddy bear at the end of the visit.  He was a total champ the rest of the day.  Tough guy!

Teary-eyed as we were being discharged

Parker also has some cuts near his eye, a little bit of a black eye, and swelling on the whole side of his face.  The wound looks pretty nasty.  I'm worried that it's going to leave a scar on my sweet, perfect baby's face.  :-(

OUCH!!

In other news, we took Parker back to the church nursery, and this time, we were actually called out of the service because he wouldn't stop crying.  As soon as we showed up, he was fine.  His experience with the urgent care staff today probably only reinforced his fear of strangers.  Oops!

Not everything has been bad lately.  Parker turned 13 months yesterday!

I'm constantly amazed at how he recognizes new words daily.  It's going to be crazy when he starts talking!