The toothless wonder

I had promised another picture of Dylan losing his teeth. Here it is.....



He was missing three at one point. He has them in and he just lost another last week. He even pulled it himself! I don't remember what the black eye was from in this picture, but I'm sure he deserved it......ha ha!

Mom goes out of town.....part II

This might sound a little like deja vu, but I think it's just a curse I have......every time Cammy leaves town, something happens. So, May 2nd, last Saturday, Cammy has this women's retreat in Billings. Of course, we have big plans (building forts, going to the park, and cleaning up the house!), so we get an early start with the forts. Well, while the kids were downstairs I was upstairs picking up. Suddenly I hear Wesley crying (which is not rare; he's so kamakaze) which quickly turns to screaming. He runs up stairs, blood going everywhere. His story is that he 'forgot to jump' when he was getting on an end table (part of the fort). He must have cracked his nose right on the corner, cuz it was split all across the bridge of his nose. I couldn't get the bleeding to stop, so I sent Dylan and Nathan to our neighbors the Bennets (thank goodness they were home!). I took Wes to the emergency room and the doc decided he'd only need two stitches. Here are some progressive pictures over the next few days and how poor Wesley's face changed......



He was such a trooper. He cried quite a bit at first, but after the doctor finished putting the stitches in, he never complained once!



His wounds were still bleeding after we left the hospital, so we had to change bandaids pretty often. This looks a lot worse than it was.

His poor nose swelled up so much! He doesn't look like himself. It looks like his eyes are a lot farther apart.

After two days his eyes started getting pretty dark.

On the third day he was turning bluish. Wesley said, 'Dad, that's nice that they knew my favorite color was blue and they made my nose blue.' I asked who 'they' were. He said, 'you know, the doctor and the nurse.'

This was as dark as his eys got. The swelling already was going down. Today his eyes are still a little dark, but the swelling is all gone. He got his stitches out on Saturday (he was a little nervous), but he talk pretty nasaly (sp) still. I guess just stay tuned to chapter III......it must be Nathan's turn. But Cammy said she's not leaving me with them alone again.......ever!