Leavin' us in Stitiches.

So last weekend was supposed to be a joyous family occasion, and it was sweet- but short! We Started off in Md with Derick's mom and to reunite with Gibson after a week away (he SOOO didn't miss us and LOVED being an only [read: spoiled] child for a week!) Then we went to another area in MD, where little niece was baptized and then, we all got to go back to Derick's brother's (John's) house where the fun could truly begin! Here are our families!

They had a moon bounce there that I was planning on getting on myself- it had a bounce, a climbing wall and then a slide down the other side, lots of yummy food and drink, and a swing set.

Well, Gibson DOMINATED the moon bounce- zooming up the wall, then jumping down the slide, but it was pretty hot out there and he felt he needed to keep moving- so he went to the swing set instead. It gets a little murky here, but apparently he pounced onto the "rock wall" part of the swing set, banged his shin, and it kind of popped open in a huge, bleeding gash. Luckily John is a Police officer with oodles of other skill sets (rescue diver, Marshall, first responder, maybe an EMT) and he had a friend at the party who is a Athletic Team Trainer and knew tons of first aid type stuff and they bandaged him up like CRAZY with butterfly bandages, gauze, tourniquets, ice packs and the whole 9 yards- but they also told us the bad news- he def. needed stitches, because his cut was gaping so much. So the rest of our afternoon was spent in an Urgent Care where our screaming son (that Lanacaine really set him off! it stings!!!) received 6 stitches.

He of course had to give his super-villain face as we were leaving with the nice, sympathy-inducing super bandage too. He and his sister conked out for most of the ride home after his traumatic afternoon! We are so sorry our visit with family was so brief- we did enjoy it when we were together- but our boy being a boy- left us in stitches!