Tough!

If “Proud” describes last Saturday for Will, then “Tough” describes this Saturday.  Will was out playing catch with the Frisbee with Josh.  The wind caught the Frisbee causing it to drift toward this grouping of large rocks in the center of the grassy area where they play.  Will, apparently, didn’t realize how close he was to the rocks and still ran for it.  Unfortunately, he tripped.  Went down.  Hard. 

Josh ran over to him expecting to see a lot of blood since his face hit the rocks, but instead saw Will free of blood, but spitting out teeth!  It was pretty traumatic for both Will and Josh.

We took him into a dentist, only to have him say we needed to take him to someone else.  We called someone else only to hear him say that apparently it’s only an emergency when you have blood coming OUT of your teeth.  Busting them into pieces is a wait until Monday type of situation, or if we would have listened to the first guy, wait two weeks! to get it taken care of kind of thing. 

We did wait until Monday, and thankfully, the dentist went ahead and fixed him up real pretty.

It was determined that when he fell, his teeth didn’t actually hit the rock, but his chin came down on the rock forcing his bottom teeth up into his top teeth with so much force that it broke them.  Ouch!

I’d say based on the bruising on his chin, this is probably pretty accurate.

Will’s new teeth.  Kind of like it never happened.

It’s pretty tough to break your front teeth, but it’s even tougher to still play football that same day with that banged up face.  It was his choice, and the dentist said it would be ok, so Will decided that he would like to play in his first, official football game.

At this stage they don’t keep track of the score, but if our own calculations are correct the game ended in a tie

The boys get to play their home games at the brand new high school turf field.  It is an awesome field.  They get to use the big score board, and even have an announcer calling the game!  It’s pretty stinkin’ cool.

Go Falcons!