Cooper's First Trip to the Emergency Room....

happened on Mother's Day Weekend...and I JUST came across the pictures and realized that I never blogged about it! On Saturday morning Cooper was playing in his room, Jared was busy in the back of the house, pretty sure I was doing laundry (because it was Saturday and that's just what I do every Saturday). All of a sudden, I hear glass shatter...followed by Cooper SCREAMING! I run into the kitchen to see him standing in the middle of a broken snow globe which usually is in his closet...have no idea how he got in there! Anyway, I look down to his foot which is bloody and I tell myself over and over to "remain calm" as I carry him to a sink near Jared (in case I cannot remain calm or pass out first). He had a gash on the side of his foot which basically went down his entire foot! We got it to stop bleeding, he acted REALLY pitiful, we watched Nemo and ate popsicles on the couch. Then he took a nap. When he got up the huge band-aid had LOTS of blood on it, so I called the after hours nurse and she sent us to Children's (the one downtown). I would simply HATE to go back to Acton Road unless ABSOLUTELY necessary! Remember I said Cooper was acting REALLY pitiful?? I mean he was not putting ANY pressure at all on his foot, and we really could not tell how bad it was because it started bleeding so badly when we tried to look. No kidding, as soon as we got to our room in the ER, he was running around, jumping on their bed, spinning on the stools, etc. He even let the doctor flush it out with saline~OUCH! (to make sure there was no glass in it)where he would scream like he was dying if we even touched it! So...basically they wrapped it in some gauze, kissed the boo-boo and sent us on our merry way! Later when he would let us near it, we realized that he basically just took off a little layer of skin BUT better to error on the side of caution...right??? Even if we're tagged as overreactive parents?