Face Injury

Today We were working in the yard and Chance was playing out in the yard with one of his little cars. We have four steps leading from our back door down to the ground and Chance had been playing very near them. A couple times he tried to go up them and each time I told him 'No' and he got down. Well the last time he had his knees on the first step and I told him to get down. He put his foot down and twisted the wrong way planting his face right on the pavement. He cried of course and I ran over to pick him up. I hugged him and took him inside. I could see there was blood around his eye so I wet a paper towel to dab his eye and get a better look. I sat down and gave him a bottle to feel better. He was not crying at that point. His left eye was not really cut the skin on his cheek bone was scraped like a burn from moving on the pavement and he has a little mark on his eye lid. He took a few sips from his bottle and was so ok that he started wiggling for me to let him back down to play. I sat him down and he went right over to play with his car and try to go back outside like nothing had ever happened. He has a bump on his head which is definately going to bruse and a small scrap on the left side of his head. He is also going to have a black eye, his cheek and eye lid are swelling a bit but he can see fine and there was no damage to his actual eye at all. He went about the rest of the day playing and having fun like nothing was wrong. We even went back outside because he wanted to go back out so bad. He just looked out the door and pointed and whined till I let him go back outside. He played with his car some more and got all dirty. It looks so bad and when I look at him his face looks so sad but he is still just his cheery self. It was bath night so he got all the

dirt off of him and he played all his usual games with one added in, He played peek-a-boo with me over the side of the tub which he initiated and you can see how happy he is about it in the last picture. He also said a new word today "This." It is kind of funny because he holds something out and says "This" with a little question mark at the end. It is one of those things you don't think of but you say "this" a lot. "Is this what you want?" or "This is your sock." or "This is Mommy's coffee" so he thinks lots of things are called "This" now. I feel so bad for him but he is such a good (and tough) little boy that I know he will pull through without any trouble. He went to bed tonight just like always. He is such a sweetheart.