Check Out the Damage

Those are words that we often hear from Lenny when his Thomas engines have crashed. Last night a Thomas engine crashed right into Lenny's tooth.

Dominic, Lenny, and Nathan were playing last night and Dominic was tossing them on the couch. They would both just giggle and go back for more. Brooke and I were just watching the silly boys and wondering what in the world we were going to do with them. Anyway, Dominic went to toss Lenny on the couch again and we didn't realize that he had a Thomas engine in his hand--Paint Splattered Thomas to be exact. As soon as Lenny got to the couch, his arm hit the back cushion and it pushed his arm and the engine into Lenny's tooth. I heard the crack and was sitting right there. Lenny immediately started crying and then is when I saw what happened. His front tooth was chipped pretty good. Dominic felt terrible even though it wasn't his fault.

Here's a picture of Lenny's battle scars. And don't worry, the red tinge on his cheeks is not blood but rather cherry kool-aid.



My poor boy. And if you know Lenny, he is going to go on about his chipped tooth for a couple of weeks. He keeps wanting to look at it in the mirror. I told Lenny that Paint Splattered Thomas needs a time out for chipping Lenny's tooth. A little later he said that Daddy needed a time out. I told him that daddy didn't mean for that to happen and that he feels terrible. I said that daddy was probably out in the garage crying right now. Lenny said, "He is? I think he's outside sitting on my sandbox crying." It was very cute. He just likes to make Dominic feel bad.

It's funny too because Dominic always teases me about not including him in the blog when he does something good or fun. He jokes about that all the time. This morning we were talking and he said that he felt so bad last night about Lenny's tooth. And then he said that he thought--well at least he would make it into the blog this time. :-) Silly guy. But I guess he was right.

I took Lenny to the dentist this afternoon while Dominic stayed with Brooke and Nathan. Luckily they didn't have to do any x-rays. All they did was put a sealant on it since Lenny said that it hurt when he drinks or eats something. Needless to say, he will be stuck with that nice looking chipped tooth until he gets his adult teeth. They said that if the look of it bothers us after a few weeks we could get it fixed but he really didn't want to put anything on it because if it gets bumped it would come off.

Lenny was a very good boy at the dentist. I was so proud of him. Just for that I took him to Target when we were done and he got a new engine--Daisy. Then we went to the library and got a couple of books and stayed for the Storybook at Bedtime at the library. We had a good evening together.

From the Mouth of a Four Year Old

Earlier today Lenny was playing with some toys and out of the blue he said, "Ah, now I can't blow a trumpet with my broken teeth. Nobody can hear the sound with broken teeth." I have no idea where that came from. We don't own a trumpet and he has never blown one before. I never know where he comes up with half of what he says.