Accident Prone

Its the moment that everyone, including Jason and I, have all been waiting for...Matt's first broken (well fractured) bone. Matt was playing on the playground at a friend's graduation party and fell and hit his chin fractured his alveolar bone (its part of the jaw bone that hold your teeth in place) in three places, plus chipped a tooth through the enamel into the dentine (the layer after the enamel).

Lucky for us we had a newly graduated Doctor (Congrats Brandon!) and Mel who is a nurse there to help comfort Matt (...and Jason). Unfortunately it was very unlucky for our dentist who was out on vacation until Friday. He was very pleasant as usual. Fantastic pediatric dentist! I would highly recommend him, Dr. Wade at Children's Dental Center in Clive!

Matt is doing great, and we are waiting to see if the blood supply picks back up and he gets to keep his bottom four teeth. *Crossing Fingers* Sadly his wonderfully straight teeth are now crooked, but on the bright side its just baby teeth. At least he wasn't hurt worse (although I doubt it would slow him down, lol) and thankfully we have such wonderful friends who keep a cool head in an emergency! We are very blessed. So thank you again Mel and Dr. Bomsta!

Today I was contemplating why MY child always get hurt. I know, if you knew me as a child right now you are laughing your butt off saying "I know why!" I know that Matt takes after me, but I would like to point out that I have only had one set of stitches and NO broken bones, yet. Yeah, yeah laugh. Its not your child! Lol! I was just wondering how Matt can climb out on to the roof in his underwear in the middle of winter and be just fine or jump off of the highest things and not have scratch, but things like playing on a playground or getting down from his bed poses the most harm. Why does everyday normal things prove to be too hard for Matt to escape injury. As I was thinking this I noticed that Matt had fallen asleep (see pic below)...and I realized it is like if there is an accident waiting to happen Matt will find it (as proven by this picture of him sleeping). He even is waiting for an accident with sleep...