The fall

I'm not sure if I just notice it more because they're my kids, or if every body's kids fall all the time, but my kids fall.ALL.the.time. Most of the time, the falls result in some type of head or facial injury. You know, the bleeds heavily and highly noticeable by all (especially the judgy mcjudgerson pediatrician) type of injuries.

It had been about 2 weeks since we had had an injury (reference Bram's shiner and eye scab from last post), so we were due. Ambrose stepped up to the plate and filled our quota. While I was in the kitchen the boys were in the play room. There are times when I can hear an injury coming. The noise level rises, the rambunctious sounds intensify and there's either laughter or crying mixed in there at some point. This however, was not one of those times. Bram was playing trains at the train table and Ambrose was playing quietly on the floor of the room. However, as all silence goes, it was short lived. Ambrose erupts in screaming. I admit, I didn't rush to his side, because normally, the reason for the screaming is a) he can't get his Legos apart or b) he get can't get his lego together. Rarely is it a crisis.

 I get to Ambroses room, and the amount of blood on his face makes my heart skips a beat. I immediately grab a roll of toilette paper from the near by closet, and try and remind myself that head/face/mouth injuries bleed terribly and always look worse than they really are. This thought calms me a bit, however, Ambrose is completely unaware of the it's-not-as-bad-as-it-looks law, and he's freaking out as he sees the blood pooling in his lap and all over the carpet.  I initially think it's just his nose bleeding, but I soon realize (as he continues to scream), there is copious amounts of blood coming from his mouth as well. Long story short, there's what looks to be a crime scene on our carpet, and Ambroses face and mouth look like this...
here comes a pic of his gums, they're all nice and clean, and not bleeding.  It's not anything that most parents haven't seen, but just in case you're the squeamish type, scroll quickly.



After

The red line is a  cut ( well, not really a cut, he fell face first into the edge of a wooden toy storage box, so that line you see from incisor to incisor is where the wooden edge met his face)
After a few texts s to my dentist friend, and then visiting Ambrose's dentist the next day, we get it nice and cleaned and are sent home with further cleaning instructions. He's got a loose tooth, that may or may not fall out. The look of the healing gum is pretty gnarly. the color is best described as the color of silver skin on pork tenderloin, it's varying shades of gray-ish, white-ish and blue-ish. My dentist friend assures me that it looks "good" and is healing, but man alive, you could have fooled me.

After all was said and done, I found that the injury came from Ambrose tripping over a large airplane in his room, and face planting into our wooden toy storage unit.

Standard...a long over due bulleted catch up

*First, have you read that book I have linked on the side bar? Read it. It absolutely is weepy, but it's so much more than just that. Go grab yourself a copy.

* Ambrose has turned into a pretty rock star Lego builder recently. He thinks of them completely on his own and then builds them unassisted. He usually builds air planes, but he has many buildings, boats and cars in his collection as well.

* We had a small fair here in our tiny town, and to my surprise, it wasn't totally .....ugh...lame I guess is the word I'm looking for. There were a few fun rides, plenty of fried foods and a band stage with some fun local bands. The boys were much braver than I thought they'd be, and ended up costing me a small fortune in tickets, but it was a total blast! 

* John recently build a Murphy bed for the boys playroom. We've always planned to have the boys share a room at some point, but as you know (from my incessant complaining) that Bram hasn't been a rock star sleeper, so we've been hesitant. However, we hope we're getting to the point that sharing a bedroom will work for the boys (which may be my famous last words). I recently stumbled upon the plans for a Murphy bed and thought that it would be perfect for our house. With a little tweaking, john adjusted the plan so that the bed was horizontal rather than vertical. I also saw in the plans that the back of the bed would be a perfect spot to use chalkboard paint and use the closed Murphy bed as a chalkboard. It's worked out perfectly ( well, the chalkboard and bed part....we haven't attempted putting the boys together yet so Ambrose is sleeping on the Murphy bed for now).

* This boy has recently taken to the strider and is getting faster and faster on it. With that speed has come many many crashes. This one he took a handle bar to the eye.