How to kill plans for a romantic evening

Jim and I had planned to watch a movie after we had put the kids to bed on Saturday night.

However, nothing kills romantic plans faster than a child needing to go to the ER.

The children had just gotten out of the shower. I was putting their robes on them and Andy thought it was funny that Doug tried to put his robe on backwards. So Andy swapped his around and put his hood over his face.
He was spinning around in his room....(you see where this is going?)
About 2 seconds after I said "Stop that, you need to get ready for bed or we won't have time to read stories...."

Andy fell over in to Doug's bed and managed to tear the top of his ear. Thank goodness it was not where the ear attaches to the head...but right at the top where it is all cartilage. The good thing about that is that there was not much blood. The bad thing about it was that it gashed pretty easily and was probably about a quarter inch long.
So I got Andy dressed while Jim held ice and paper towels on his ear and said a quick prayer over him. I got them out to the car and then went back to find Doug (who had been sent to Josie's room) sitting on Josie's bed with her reading books (she was in a diaper and sunglasses).

I got them to bed and about an hour and a half later Jim and Andy returned. Andy had many stitches and was excited because he got a sticker, ice cream (yes...actual chocolate ice cream, not just a coupon to get some later), and he was their best patient (even better than some adults apparently). They didn't believe Jim when he told the medical professionals that Andy could manage his pain while they numbed his ear...so they wrapped him and then were impressed when he did his breathing thing to "blow out the pain" (apparently one of the nurses said that Andy was going to be a great Lamaze couch some day).
His stitches will disolve (thank goodness...Doug healed so fast that some of his skin grew over his stitches). We have to keep it uncovered, no bathes, and keep it moist with antibiotic ointment. It already looked significantly better this morning compared to the red puffiness it was yesterday.
It has not slowed Andy down one bit. He says it hurts a little, but I have to remind him to not be rough with Doug because I don't want to have to go to the ER again.
There is always something. Some days I feel like I signed up for the advanced crash course in parenting.
I suppose on the bright side of all of this that I am learning how to react in an emergency with calm and cool, and now all three of my children will have identifying scars....