"good luck with your face"

LOTS of bruising.
but nothing broken and no stitches!

we had another milestone as parents yesterday...

our first medical crisis.

lots of tears

lots of blood

lots of wondering what we should do...

elliot tripped and hit his face on the legs of a chair.

as a nurse i feel very out of my element when teeth are involved.

perhaps it's cause i hate the dentist, so i hate thinking that my kid will have to endure some awful dental treatment. after  about 5 minutes of his unconsolable crying, a phone call to my mom (not home), a phone call to elliots dentist (closed for 3 weeks) i said, lets just take him to dr. marlers office and ask what we should do. of course this happened while making dinner.

turn off the burners.

wake up the baby.

load into the van.

thankfully it's only about 1 mile to his office.

we went in and asked for "dr. marler or JJ, i mean, dr. Campbell." JJ came right out and took a look and said he will have a pretty sore mouth for a few days, he shoved the teeth back but kids have spongy bone and so it should be alright. we can follow up with an xray when he is not so sore. the teeth will probably turn black.

he almost bit through his bottom lip too.

PHEW!! 

we got lucky this time! 

elliot has been a trooper and adapted to his new fat lip 

by sipping a straw out "my front teeth," 

and is trying to milk the injury for all the fruit snacks he can.

i'm a sucker and he got 2 bags of them today.

at bedtime he asked if his teeth were going to fall out.

i said "probably not. but they might turn black."

he said "or maybe pink."

maybe.

BEFORE-
this picture was taken the morning of the accident.
cause he LOVES to have pictures of himself and
then look at them on the back of the camera

his gums look like hamburger meat

but we still think he is cute!