Poor Nicholas. He has always had a huge head, it has always been in the 95th percentile, usually over 100%. He sat up later than most of his peers which we always attributed to his head being so big, same with crawling and most other early gross motor skills.
He has two spots on his forehead that are probably permanant scars, from always hitting it in the same spot. He and Abby were wrestling once and she body slammed him into the wall and something that was hanging on the wall fell off and hit his forehead, four stitches and three hours in the ER later....He has bashed it when falling from his scooter, while runnign in the house and falling against something etc. His head really just seems too big for his body, it throws off his balance and just pulls him around. I am having a bad Mom moment, I cannot find any pictures on the computer of the stitches! Good thing I have already scrapbooked it!
Well, tonight it happened again. He was spinning in circles in the living room, he and Millie, I was in the kitchen cooking and Tom was off doing something. I heard this gynormous thud and waited, as Mom's know to do, but it actually took a few seconds for the crying to start. He was spinning and spinning and lost his balance in a dizzy stagger, and whacked his head into the wall. I probably wouldn't have thought much of it, except as I sat on the couch comforting him, I noticed that he left a DENT in the wall! It was one of those moments as parents where you know you just cannot laugh, but you just can't help it! No, Nick did not know we were laughing at him, his head was burried in my shoulder, trying to get over the embarrassment! The poor thing!
Icing the head after one of the many injuries
This one, the injury was not in the usual spot, but it still counts! Even better, we had their 18 month pictures the next day!
The damage to the wall from tonight's incident! Ouch!
2 comments:
Oh, he's gonna love you when you pull those out for his fiancee and tell her you hope their future children don't have as big of heads! DOn't you hate when they whack their heads days before pictures? It's like they know-'must hit head, must make mark' Luke had a black eye for family pictures this summer and we just went to Penney's (used that coupon you got for me) and his eye was black again, although not quite as noticeable. The first time was from his sister's head, the most recent from a door knob.
Great blog! I'm your neighbor from freecycle that asked about the stroller. It's great to meet a fellow Rio Rancho mom blogger. :)
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