kullen and the chin

saturday started out like a normal day … spent majority of it at the pool and then packed up and headed to hang with some friends! it was a "ladies night" but some of kullen's friends were going to be there so i decided to bring him and rhys along! 

they wanted to get into the hot tub and although i didn't bring their bathing suits, i told them they could go in their undies. the people next-door even did some fireworks.
this picture was taken around 9:11pm.

this picture was taken around 9:16pm.

see, what happened after that first picture is kullen decided to do a backwards somersault and somehow hit his chin on the bottom step. 

he didn't panic so i didn't really either. until i saw this. 

i knew it was going to have to be stitched. so, i called my husband to see if he wanted me to take him right away or meet him (to drop rhys off versus taking him to the ER). we decided that i would meet him at our local ER. 

this isn't the worse part of the story though. 

as i'm driving to meet my husband, i get into a "fender bender". 

i was stopped at a red light which had turned green. as i took my foot off the break,  i thought i heard kullen say something so i glanced back and BAM, right into the car in front of me. i was barely going 5mph so there was hardly damaged but still. 

after explaining to the kid to hurry and give me his info/call the cops/whatever he wanted to do because i was trying to get my kid to the ER, i still had to wait a little bit for all that accident nonsense. 

i finally made it to the hospital around 10:00 and sign in. the ER is packed. 

around midnight - we make it back to triage where i explained what happened. we asked if they were going to stitch it right away since it had happened a few hours ago and the nurse said she wasn't sure and that we'd have to wait to see the doctor and he would make the call. 

fast forward 2hrs … 2:00am and we're all half asleep and super cranky. i asked my husband to check in with the front desk to see if he could tell us anything. 

after talking to the guy for a bit, adam came back explaining that there were still 13 people ahead of us and by the time we would be seen, it would be too late to stitch him up. so, we decided to leave.

as you can see, he probably reaaaaally needed stitches. we're doing our best to keep it clean and closed and actually it seems to be improving somewhat.

we're lucky that we have a (scheduled) doctors visit tomorrow so that i can have his doctor check him out and make sure we're doing the right things for it. 

so, at 5 years old - kullen escaped stitches (by the hair of his chiny chin chin.) har. har. har! 

injury list

this is what happens when your a boy mom. your kids walk around with massive bruises and people likely think you beat them. 

added to the list of injuries: 

frisbee to the face. [a frisbee thrown by a 200lb muscle man at that! -- and no, it wasn't on purpose! two guys were throwing the frisbee back and forth and kullen ran across the field at the same time!]

accident prone

yep, that's my son.

i feel like he's been through the ringer when it comes to injuries and he isn't even two.

over the weekend, he had yet another!

saturday, we went to dinner for mandee's birthday down in annapolis.

we dropped kullen off [for the first time - and by that i mean, the first time he has been babysat, outside of daily daycare, outside of our house] at his grandma's. all his cousins were there so we figured he was in for a fun filled night! fun = bumps/bruises/blood for our son. haha!

anyway - we got a call that evening that something had happened. while playing with his cousins, an off-hinge door slide down and caught his toe. :( grandma thought it might be broken but we decided against the ER trip because we all know there is nothing that can be done for a broken toe. his toenail however, will probably be lost.

turns out the toe isn't broken at all! he was mobile all day yesterday and only had a few 'incidents' when he ran over it while on his truck and kicked a few things! he is our little tough man, that's for sure! both adam and i keep telling ourselves that all these things are going to make him so much stronger but it's so hard to see your baby boy hurting!

although he won't let us touch it much, we were able to soak it in peroxide/water yesterday for a good 20 or so minutes and it looked so much better afterwards. hims little toenail will probably fall off here soon but he is taking it like a champ!

i kept telling him yesterday 'watch your toe!!!' and instead of being careful, he would just look down at his toe as if to 'watch' it! ;] funny little dude!