Cuts, bruises, scrapes and falls and more lessons...

I'm pretty much used to our sons scrapes, scratches, falls and bruises in his little one year existence. This one though was a double whammy involving my husband!

Its barely 9 am and G and I are doing our usual am routine of playing outside before it gets brutally hot out, when he trips forward over Thomas the train and cuts his lip on our front porch. What a bloody mess,but the lip is very vascular I reasoned..I am pretty calm and collected walking over to our first aid kit when, my husband wakes up hearing this screeching cry, one which he himself is all too familiar with from working in the ER. He immediately grabs G and wipes the now clots of blood from his face when he suddenly turns pale as a ghost and says the infamous words I've heard many times right before one goes down,"i'm gonna pass out". And that he did... I grabbed G and before I knew it or could even assist him in a more graceful fall, he face plants onto our hardwoods, reminiscent of G's fall just minutes prior. That minute or two he was out felt like an eternity as I tried to turn his limp body over as his neck and face turned a scary familiar shade of purplely/blue and took loud shallow breaths with a pulse down at 30..I called 911 a second before it was getting uncomfortably-uncomfortable after rubbing his sternum to revive him. When he came out of it he was confused but quickly remembered the series of events that led to his fall. Interestingly, he too sustained a lip laceration in the same place G did (daddy's though a bit larger)...It's nice to know,that although we live in a small town, our Sheriff quickly showed up at our doorstep to check things out.

After calming G and (myself too) from witnessing his daddy's fall combined with his own hurt lip, we all laid in bed together, hugging and kissing.

Although their cuts would quickly heal I wondered what my life would be without these two...Sometimes, someone else's cuts and bruises, scrapes and falls can teach you a lesson.
I love you my lacerated lip boys!