Bruiser

We're learning to run these days....and it's causing its fair share of bumps and bruises. The first of the "boo boos" occurred to his knees, but lately his face has been bearing the brunt of the injuries. :( Here is a picture of last week's injuries - including a scrape and a bruise above his eyebrow and a smaller bruise on his cheek. He got the scrape at home, and honestly I'm not even sure how he got it....it just all of the sudden appeared one morning!

The bruises happened at daycare; apparently he was running on a sidewalk on the playground and took a big face first fall! :(



Another incident happened today, and it caused a NASTY bruise & bump in the middle of his forehead! He fell face first into a book shelf at daycare. His teacher said he cried more about the ice pack than the injury itself.

The only positive is that they had picture day at daycare today where they have professional photographers come in...and the incident didn't occur until after the pictures.

I wish I could take him to school in a 'bubble' tomorrow :(

I titled it Bruiser because we bumped into an older lady at the grocery store when Mitchell was maybe 6 months old, she was fascinated with our red haired child. Apparently she had a red headed grandson who was now grown and Mitchell reminded her of him. After a few minutes of playing with him, she told me that she just had a feeling that he was going to be a "bruiser". I know she meant it in a different context, but I couldn't help but be reminded of her prediction in looking at his face latey. I looked up the definition of bruiser...."a strong, tough person." Used in a sentence "A thick-skinned bruiser ready to give as good as he got." Hmmm...we'll see if she's right!