You should see the other guy...

Well we had our first trip to the ER yesterday when Wyatt fell off the pumpkin cart. My friend Julie and her daughter Katie went to Starlight Indiana with us to Huber's Winery to pick pumpkins. It was a beautiful day and definitely more fall like weather than last weekend. We had some food, took a hayride to the pumpkin patch and checked out the farm market. They had pumpkin carts set up with huge pumpkins all over the place. I sat Wyatt on one of these and got ready to take a picture of him. Julie and I both had our hands on him when someone came up behind us and bumped the stroller which fell backward. We both thought the other had him or we both just didn't think all at once and I didn't even see him fall. I turned around a split second later and he was laying on the concrete. He never lost consciousness and started screaming immediately which apparently is a good sign. I ran over to the farm market and asked someone for a first aid station. They called a woman over to help me and she got ice for the bump on his head and held him while I called his doctor's after hours number which is UK ped triage. They told me to take him to the nearest ER. So the closest one in Indiana was 20 minutes away but Kosairs in Louisville was just a bit further so we decided to head there instead. The lady from Huber's put us on a go-kart and drove us to the car. I called Michael and gave him a heart attack. He called my parents to tell them to meet me at the hospital and tried to remain calm at home by himself. Julie drove us back to Louisville, as I kept ice on Wyatt's bump and tried to keep him awake even though he had worn himself out and it was already past nap time. We arrived at Kosairs around 4:30pm and my mom and dad beat us there. They called us back within 5 minutes to triage and then put us back in a curtained area. They told me that this was the third pumpkin related injury that day. Back in the curtained area we talked to the family next to us that had a 9 month old little boy that fell from hay bales onto concrete and had a bump over his left eye too. Several doctors and nurses came by to check on us and they even got us back to do a CT scan fairly quickly. They determined that he has a hairline skull fracture of the orbital bone around the eye. They were going to admit him for 23 hour observation but then the neurologist and opthamologist cleared him to be discharged around 9pm. After Michael calmed down he headed to Louisville and met us at my parents' house.

We followed up with his doctor this afternoon and she saw all normal movement and light in his eyes and recommended a local pediatric opthamologist for us to see in about a week. He does look rough but doesn't act like there is a thing wrong with him. He was the same ole flirt and good natured baby even at the ER last night. He was giving the nurses and doctors high 5's and smiling through the swollen eye and scratches.
Here's a picture but just remember it looks worse than it is:And here are some before pictures:
All is well now and I've already told Wyatt that this was his one and only trip to the ER. No more for at least 20 years!! And I promise any further pumpkin pictures will be taken ON THE GROUND!