Alexander didn't need stitches!

Ok, so the boys were playing a "friendly" game of baseball in the backyard, and for some reason Sam threw the bat, and warned Alex to move, but not in time. It's a rubbery kind of bat, but with a hard plastic tube at its core, which is currently exposed because some of the rubber is missing at the top. So, the hard plastic tube hit his head pretty hard. I didn't know if it needed stitches or not, I don't have a lot of experience with that, so I took him to urgent care, just to be safe. They super cleaned it out (much better than I would have, so that's good), and they said since he's a mature boy, they can trust him to keep it dry, not to pick at it, not wash his hair for 3 days, and wear this pressure bandage on it for the next 3 days. With all of those things, he doesn't need stitches. If he were a little kid, it probably would've gone the other way. I never would have known to not wash his hair, or to wrap up his head for 3 days, so it's a good thing we went. Alexander was such a great trooper in all of it, and was so brave, especially during the harsh cleaning of it. I was very proud of him. The doctor even said he was "very articulate" when he was describing what happened. :-) Of course, it was all a little traumatic, so Brian's picking up chinese food for dinner, and we're going to go rest now. Love you all!