Boys will be Boys

Carter has officially been inducted into the "I'm a rough and tumble boy" club. Several weeks ago, we got a call from the day care saying that Carter has fallen on the playground, has a pretty good gash on his forehead, and needs us to come take him to the doctor. Unfortunately since I was at a company training thing that day, I didn't get the call right away. When I realized I had missed calls, there were 2 from the day care and 1 most recently from Scott. Figuring Scott knew what was going on, I immediately called him first. He explained what happened and let me know that he had already picked him up from day care and was taking him to Dr. Castles office. Scott also said that Carter was acting fine and there was really no reason for me to come if I needed to stay at work. I thought about it for about 2 seconds and was like nope, I'm outta here! I drove as fast as I could to the doctor all the while working myself up to the verge of tears in case I got stopped by the police.

It was going to go something like this:
sob...son hurt, daycare....sob sob, sniff....busted forehead....sob, gasp of air....lots of bleeding....sob sob, wail...doctor, now, so sorry....sob sob!

Fortunately, I arrived without incident or having to test my acting abilities. When I walked into the exam room, they had just finished putting in his stitches, 3 total. He immediately reached for mommy and was not interested in letting go anytime soon. Everyone said he did GREAT getting his stitches.

We we arrived home, he acted completely normal. He's a tough kid, that's for sure. Six days later, we went back to the doctor to remove his stitches. He cried while Dr. Castles was removing the first stitch and then quit crying suddenly when he realized "hey, this doesn't hurt!" I guess now he'll have a little scar on his forehead to match Mommy's and Granny's. I guess it was inevitable....how else would we mark him?

In more recent news, Carter has another ear infection that won't go away. Here's how one doctors visit went:

Doctor - (looking in Carter's ear) wow! that ear is full of puss!
Me - really?
Doctor - Has he been sleeping?
Me - oh, yea no problem
Doctor - You have a good baby, I can't believe he's been sleeping with this ear the way it looks

After 1 round of oral antibiotics and 2 shots of antibiotics, it's looking better. We go back next week to see if the second round of antibiotics he's currently on will knock it out completely. We've literally been to the doctor 4 times with a 5 on the books in about a 4 week time period. I see tubes in our future.