Saturday, January 31, 2009

teeth, casts, scorpions, oh my




This is my son, and his arm. Yesterday he fell off of the monkey bars at school. He was crying and in a lot of pain. I took him to the doctor and as the doctor was looking at his arm, moving his hand up, down and then side to side he says "that doesn't hurt." I start thinking " oh great, I've brought him in and nothing is wrong" As we sat outside the x-ray I am thinking how I really must be a horrible mother, because I am "hoping that his arm is really broken and that I didn't spend all this money for nothing" I know there must be something wrong with me. Okay, I really didn't want his arm to be broken, because I certainly don't want him to be hurting. (but if he's making such a fuss over this and it's not....). Well, as you can see, it was really broken, not too bad and should heal well.


It's been a big week for him. He also lost one of his front teeth. He also was entered into a local art contest by his art teacher. They only picked a couple kids from each school. They were giving away scholarships. He didn't win, but I thought it was an honor just to be chosen. This is a scorpion. (He is in 1st grade)
the picture really isn't very good.

5 comments:

TisforTonya said...

I was getting concerned that in addition to being toothless and a busted arm that he'd gotten a scorpion sting... of course, after I saw the artwork I remembered that you probably don't live where that's as big a problem as it is here :)

lori said...

eww...you get scorpions. We don't get them here, thank goodness

Robyn said...

Wow, -L- is still waiting to lose her first tooth! Broken bones are not fun, but I am sure it will heal fast. The scorpion looks great too!

TisforTonya said...

we've avoided having any around or in our house... but they're out there in the desert so we've had to warn the kids not to pick them up :)

Jackie said...

We had an arm issue around here around that same time...but Dallin's ended up not being broken, just bruised on the INSIDE. But, I felt like the mom of a boy who cried "broken arm" for a couple days.