close calls

liam is pure boy. 

he is rough and tumble. 

he runs into everything, he bangs on anything, he is clumsy.

he is just a rough boy.

we haven't had too many bad spills with him yet thankfully. 

but within the last four days we have had two very close calls to the point where we were almost getting ready to load him into the car to get checked out.

incident #1

it's thanksgiving morning and i'm in the bathroom getting ready which liam hates. he likes to be under my feet at all times. so once that bedroom or bathroom door closes, he freaks out. so while i'm getting ready, lance is in the living room trying to entertain him and all the sudden i hear him cry pretty hard. it was a little harder than a usual small bump cry. so i come out and lance has picked him up and is trying to get him to calm down. when lance points to what happened and is telling me about it (he was leaning into his toy bin to get a toy out, he actually fell in). at that time i look back at liam, who is still crying, just as blood starts pouring out of his mouth. and we're talking a good amount of blood. so we rush him to start wiping away the blood and when we think it's just about done i find the tiniest flap of skin on his lip hanging down and attribute the bleeding to that. so when i finish getting ready and head up to get liam dressed. as he's laying on his changing table i get another look into his mouth and notice what the real problem is. here's where we back up, at one of liam first appts i asked the doctor about the flap of skin(frenulum) that connects the lip to the gum. go ahead and try to feel yours. for most peoples it's at the top of their gums. liam's is at the very base of his gum line and she mentioned needing to get this removed to save his teeth from growing spaced out because of that muscle being in the way. so when i'm looking into liam's mouth, i notice that is what was causing the blood. his frenulum had ripped and was no longer attached to the base of his gums. we talked to the nurse on call (felt so bad having to call on thanksgiving!) and she basically said that if the bleeding has stopped then we just saved ourselves a procedure charge. it's been a few days now it's been looking a little better. it's healing and we're happy thats all it was!

(it did not effect his first (with real food) thanksgiving meal one bit. he was all over that turkey)

incident #2

while i was out black friday shopping, jcp was handing out tiny mickey mouse snow globes and liam was given one. i was initially worried about him playing with it but after seeing him drop it a few times, thought it was pretty solid. last night he was playing with it again and it finally shattered. we were about two feet away from him but just as fast as we could snag him up, he took steps toward the pile of water, fake snow, glitter and shards of glass. we started saying no pretty loud and then lance snatched him up real quick. right away i looked to see if i could see any glass or blood on his feet and didn't see anything but with the way he was crying we couldn't tell if it was from the commotion of everything or if he hurt himself. after a few seconds we saw there was a little knick mark on his foot. lance and my sister cleaned up his foot while i cleaned up the snow globe remnants. once that was all done we were trying to decide if we though there was glass in his cut. the only thing i could think about was how were we or anyone going to get him to stay still long enough to get a piece of glass out?! luckily after a closer look we decided that there wasn't any glass in there, put a band-aid on him and sent him on his way.

last night i was starting to wonder if we were good parents with the recent accidents but told myself boys will be boys, right. especially this rough and tumble boy. the er might be in future multiple times.

this is an unrelated but sad looking so it's relevant picture