It was bound to happen...

Just the other day, we were all in our kitchen/dining room.  We have a high top table, with bar height chairs.  Kade just walked right up to one, and climbed on up.  I looked over at Marc and said, "How long until we wind up in the ER with him?"  I love his ambition and curiousity, but as his Mama, it also scares me to death.  He is seriously afraid of nothing, and a total thrill seeker. He will bail off of anything at any time. Marc likes to call him a billy goat.  He won't stop climbing until he is at the very highest point he can get.

Just in case you needed a visual.  I bet this goat's name is Kade.  

He will jump/fall off of anything.  Often, he won't brace himself at all, and you can tell it hurts, but he gets up and laughs.

Tuesday, I was at work, and my cell phone rings.  It was Ashley. It had finally happened.  Kade went boom a little too hard.  Apparently, he was just running, but tripped and tried to take a bite out of her coffee table.  She said it bled quite a bit, and that he was still pretty upset.  She was concerned because it looked like one of his teeth had been pushed back.  I know that mouths tend to bleed quite a bit, but was worried when she said that a tooth was pushed back.  She sent me a picture, and I could see that yes, his left front tooth, was pushed back into his mouth just a little.

When I was little, a teeter totter took out my 2 front teeth, and I remember them saying that it is important for the baby teeth to be in alignment because it can affect the way your permanent teeth come in later.  What is a little ironic is that less than a week ago, Marc and I were discussing finding the kids a pediatric dentist.  I had heard great things from many people about one in Hutchinson, so I was planning on calling to get the kids checkups.  But I hadn't got that far yet.  I decided to go ahead and call their office to ask about Kade.  They told me to bring him in.

I got to Ashley's and I think Marleigh and Jadyn (Ashley's daughter that is 6 weeks younger than Marleigh)  were more upset than Kade at that point.  Both the girls were crying and so was Kade.

We headed for Hutch and thank goodness Kade fell asleep.  Ashley had given him some Motrin, so I think that helped.  Poor little guy.  He was still bleeding and it was running down his chin while he slept.  Made my heart just hurt for him.

The dentist's office got us in fairly quickly.  He had damaged his two front teeth, and then the tooth directly to the left.  The one of most concern was the left front tooth.  The dentist moved it just a little bit, back closer to it's original position.  Kade was NOT a fan.  He was crying and blubbering, "Mama, mama, mama."  Talk about the saddest sound ever!!!  The doctor said he also had quite a bit of soft tissue damage.  It appeared like those three teeth may have been shoved up into his gums a bit, so no hard foods for at least 10 days.

The doctor thought he would be fine, but we will have to go back in a few months to check for nerve damage.  It could have been so much worse.  Just a little bump in the road.

Kade and I made it home Tuesday night by around 5:30.  By 5:32 he was back to climbing up on the chair and trying to climb onto the table.  This little billy goat sure doesn't learn very quickly!