Darryl said...
About the boo-boo.
The Date: Saturday, October 18th, 2006
The Time: Approx 3:00 PM MDT
The Place: The "Whale Park"
Lucas, Emma and I went for a walk to the park. When we arrived I turned the stroller toward where I would be throwing the ball so Lucas could see Emma run. Started throwing the ball for Emma, Lucas was watching Emma run and pointing at her. He pointed out some birds in sky and the kids on the play equipment. Then after about 4 or 5 throws for Emma Lucas started to fuss. He didn't want to watch Emma and the birds, he wanted to walk around. So I heeled Emma beside me and took Lucas out of his stroller and stood him on the pathway. Within seconds he was toddling around.
I picked up the ball for Emma again and threw it, as I turned to look at Lucas I saw him start to fall forward. As usual he put out his hands to catch himself ... but he didn't get his hands raised high enough. he landed on his hands for the most part but then, because his hands were too close to his feet and as a baby, his head being too big for his body, he teetered forward onto his nose and forehead. I quickly scooped him up and looked at him. There was a stone in his mouth and red mark on his forehead that started to gush blood down to the tip of his nose. I proceeded to try and wipe the blood from his face, which just smudged it. Lucas, wailing now, tried to rub his face and push my hand away. This of course smudging the blood even more, as more was produced from the gash on his forehead.
I went in panic mode. First I look in the stroller, are there any paper towels or tissues? ... nope, but there are diapers, diapers are absorbent! so I open a diaper (not to worry it was a clean one) and tried to wipe his face with it. Just smudged it more. at this point I just grabbed the stroller and started running home with Lucas in my arm, Emma running beside us, I'm sure a little dejected that were leaving already.
We get home and first thing I thought was get him a suckie and then clean his face and the wound. A clean damp cloth and a little wiping and patting and we didn't look like casualties of war anymore (yes 'we' because I was covered in Lucas' blood too). I then just bounced Lucas and said "you're okay" as he (and I) calmed down.
He must have landed on a small but sharp little stone to cause the gash. It was suprisingly deep for how he fell. It wasn't like a "I was running and tripped, falling face first" kind of a fall. It was more like he just took a step, lost his balance and over he went.
Anyway, the moral of the story (for me anyways). When you stand Lucas on the ground at the park, set him in the grass, not on the walkway. :)
3 comments:
I'm so glad to finally hear the story and relieved that it was a "head over heels" kind of thing and not a ball in the face or something like that.
I feel like I relived some of Mac's boo-boos in reading your account of the story. When Mac was between 1 and 2 1/2 she had a nasty habit of toppling over (much like Lucas did) but she never seemed to get her hands out in time. She always landed on her mouth. Much like Lucas's head wound, a punctured lip bleeds about as much as a forehead. It happened to her at lease 8-10 times before she hit 3 years old. For some reason she was much more stable after 3 years old...her body must have caught up with the size of her head by then!!!
Good job in how you handled it and you'll have a cute story to tell over and over as the years go by!
Love always,
Lori
Accidents happen
there will be a lot of them as the years go by
U handled it:)
I think with babies and toddlers they tend to bleed more from the head the lips and mouth anyway
Glad hes ok now
Left my comments on the previous blog entry. Love Grammy
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