(Please click on the photo to see more pictures).Yes, Jake got to visit the ER twice on Friday. It started out like any other day. Michele and Jake were killing some time before heading up to Grand Blanc to go to the spray park. They were playing around on the bed, and as usual, after tackling the pillows, Jake likes to play with the monitor. This time, however, the monitor fought back. He enlisted the efforts of the bed and the nightstand and did some damage to our son. Jake was reaching for the monitor, and lost his balance and bumped his head on the nightstand. Normally, it wouldn't be a big deal, just a few tears, and then a few button presses of the monitor later, and he'd be over it. Well, this time, he caught the edge with his forehead right by the eye. It was a bit more than his skin could take, so it decided to split, letting a lot of blood come out in the process. After confirming with Jo that it wasn't ridiculous to go to the ER for the cut, Michele hauled him over to St. Mary's. The doctor agreed that it was good to bring Jake in. Instead of stitches, he just glued the wound closed. Jake, by this time, was playing with his books like nothing had happened.
Fast forward to Friday evening. I was about to leave work to come home. Pete and Teri had come down for dinner since they didn't see Jake and Michele during the day. Right before packing up my notebook, my phone rang. Jake had bumped Michele on the chin. In case you hadn't guessed, it was with the same eye. So, the glue busted open and there was more flowage of blood. The three of them took him back to the ER where the second doctor glued the wound back together, but then also added some steri-strips to help keep it closed. Michele said Jake didn't even cry at all this time, but had a very brave look on his face while the work was being done.
As I stated in the previous post, Michele is getting anxious about the end of summer. She wanted to fit a zoo trip in today, but with the Woodward Dream Cruise in full swing, I didn't think it'd be smart to head to the Detroit Zoo. Instead, we headed South and visited Ohio. We had heard nothing but positive remarks about the Toledo Zoo. It was only a little over an hour away according to Google Maps, so we thought we'd go for it. The zoo was very nice. We decided it was probably cleaner than Detroit, but we also thought the animals were harder to get to, so we've decided we prefer the closer zoo. We had great weather, and it made for a really nice trip. We even bumped into our Tawas relatives, Ericka and Chase who were down visiting the zoo with one of her friends and her daughter.
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