5 Lil' Bausons Jumping on the Bed

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Hey there, I'm Marisa; wife to John. Mother to: Manny, Christian, and Jackson. I am also the author of this blog.

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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Today while Mommy was using the restroom Christian climbed onto the arm of Manny's small toddler arm chair. He then decided to fall, and hit his tooth. I'm not sure what he hit his tooth on b/c when I came running out he was already on the floor. I didn't see anything around him that could have been the culprit, so I think this mystery will be unsolved.

Anyways, I ran to pick him up, held him to my chest, and rocked him for a bit to try and calm him down. When I pulled him back to access the damage, my chest was covered in blood. His face was covered in blood. I quickly wiped him down, and noticed that the bleeding was coming from his mouth.

Oh my gosh, there was so much blood! So much that I could smell that coppery scent in the air...gag :-X

I opened his mouth too see what was bleeding, and noticed that there was a small cut in the gum line above his tooth.

I called his dentist and had an appointment made for 2:30 p.m. I also called John b/c I remembered the horrible time Manny had when he did the same thing a couple of months earlier. I needed help just in case Christian started flipping out.

Upon examination Dr. Pham said that it looked like Christian fractured his tooth (it was extremely loose). He said that baby's teeth are extremely fragile. The plus side is that they heal quickly, and no sutures or surgery will be needed (had he been older these things would most likely have been necessary). Unfortunately, we have to keep him on pureed foods for the next two weeks, and try to keep him from chewing on things, and putting stuff in his mouth (yeah right).

Christian did really well when Dr. Pham looked at his mouth. All of the nurses commented about how calm he was. Christian just sat there, and stared at the weird dude with fingers in his mouth.

So now we have removed everything and anything that Christian could possible crawl on. Christian is a climber, so that means practically everything has been removed. I don't see how I'm going to keep him from chewing on things, but I'll try my best.

Over the past week I've had this horrible cough. I don't have a fever. I'm not congested. I just have this nasty smokers cough (I don't smoke by the way). I went to Target in search of cough syrup, and found some tylenol cough & cold on sale. I looked over the bottle to make sure that it wasn't their night time formula, and didn't see it marked "night time" anywhere, so I threw it in the basket and was on my way.

Before driving home I decided to take the recommended dose of cough syrup. Five minutes after taking said "dose" I started to feel...funny; almost drunkenly tired. I thought, "crap was it the night time medication?" And low and behold, in the lower left hand corner, in super teenie tiny letters I read "night time". Bah! It was only 4:30 p.m.!!! How was I going to make it until after the kids got to bed?!?!

John was with me when all of this went down, and he started to laugh at me. He was the one who was going to suffer in the end when I went to bed at 6:00 p.m. I don't know why he thought it was so funny.

Luckily I was able to tough it out until 7:00 p.m. I cooked dinner, ate dinner, and then passed out. I woke up at 5: 00 a.m. and have been awake ever since. I feel great! I slept for 10 hours...who wouldn't?

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