Max's ouchies :(

Last night as I was making dinner Max and Emily were in the family room watching tv when all of a sudden I heard a 'thump' and then Emily cry out, "Max fell off the recliner!!"

Max started crying and I went over and made sure he was okay before picking him up and found no head/neck issues that I could see. I glanced at his mouth and saw blood and figured, urgh another split lip. We had several of those over the years and then carried him to the kitchen realizing that as i went my hand that was under his chin was filling up with blood.

Jase was in the shower when it happened and he heard the commotion and came down stairs to see me with my hands covered in blood and then asked, "What happened?" I got him to pass me a wet cloth and we wiped the blood away and sat Max on Jase's lap as I peeked in his mouth. I saw that his lip was badly split and his front tooth was chipped. What concerned us was the fact that the blood just kept coming and coming. So we gave him a freezie (Otter pop to you US folks!!) which seemed to slow the blood flow down. He ate dinner with no complaints and seemed like he was back to his old self.

At bedtime I wanted to take a peek at how it was looking so I peeked and noticed that when i lifted his lip his mouth started filling with blood...(this was when I took that photo) We realized that not only had he split his lip and chipped a tooth but he also torn his phrenulum, sliced his gum from his front tooth to two teeth down and also stripped the gum of his front tooth up about 1/4".

Being a little in shock I called my mom, who is a nurse and e-mailed her the picture and she said I should call my dentist just to see what he says. So I did and also sent him the picture and he said he thought Max would be okay for the night and that he wanted to see him today.

So, off we went this morning to see Dr. Clark who said it is actually looking better but confirmed that he torn his phrenulum (which in a way is good because it will help reduce the massive gap tooth smile he has :)) and he said that we need to keep an eye on Max's gums to make sure they heal but being as he is so young it should heal fairly smoothly but if not, its up top so shouldn't be too noticeable. The kids have dental check ups in two weeks so he will check Max out then if we don't see any problems in the mean time.

Oh the horrors our kids put us through as parents. Today he still has a massive fat lip and when he woke up this morning Jason said he looked like the Joker with blood smeared all over his face!! Max was a little upset that he got blood on his Thomas the Train pillow case but I told him I would wash it for him and make Thomas all better and he seemed happy with that.