Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Resilience

I'm not sure if it's a boy thing or a (nearly) three-year-old thing, but Grayson has been an injury magnet lately. He's still sporting the faded remnants of a scar from his Easter weekend scrape on his face, and added a few more facial injuries over the weekend.

A literal run-in with his cousin Holt's forehead left Gray with a pale black eye and bruised cheek, and then his life jacket rubbed a mark under his chin after jumping in the pool no less than 50 times in a row.

The injuries, combined with an unexplainable 24-hour fever and eczema flare ups on the back sides of both legs, have left our son looking and feeling like quite a mess these days.

In the grand scheme of things I'm sure the worst is probably not over when it comes to little boy injuries, but I must admit I'm looking forward to the day when Grayson's face doesn't have some sort of battle wound. For now perhaps I should dress him in a shirt that says something like, "You should see the other guy."

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