Week From Hell

We had a pretty tough week in June -- starting off with Max falling over a chair and hitting the back of his head on our window sill.  When it happened, I picked him up and put my hand on his head, pulled my hand away, and my hand was covered in sticky blood!  HORRIFYING as a mother!  I of course started panicking and couldn't find my phone.  With help from our nice, helpful concierge staff and my friends -- I was able to find a clinic across the street with a plastic surgeon and an English-speaking staff.  What a relief!  Max had stopped crying and the wound stopped bleeding after about 10 minutes, so I knew it wasn't too serious, but it still was this gaping head wound!  He had to have 5 staples put in his head!  HORRIFYING to watch your baby getting his head stapled!  Max did great though (they super-swaddled him to keep him from moving his arms).  He got the staples taken out the next week.  A few days after this happened, both boys and I got this wicked stomach virus.   Gross -- the boys threw up all over our living room and kitchen -- did I mention we have white carpet?  Nightmare.  They then got a cold on top of the stomach virus, which Greg got too.  I was spared from that at least!