Matthew decided to cap off the summer with the best of all possible scrapes and bruises....a head wound.
Went down to Mason tonight to watch the Chieftains play their first football game (a first...we actually know a few starters this year, but, it's going to be a looooong year). The night is going pretty well, kids are out and about and checking in every once in a while, it's a nice night, 3rd quarter is coming to an end and I distinctly remember thinking "Hey, we're going to make it to the end of this game!"
And then Kevin comes up "Mom, Matthew is bleeding". And there's Matthew, right behind him, and there is blood everywhere.....it's covered the whole side of his face..his shirt has blood stains everywhere. He's not really crying though.
Rush him over to the nearest 'facility', the concession stand, and realize as we're walking that he's not bleeding so much anymore and it's just a small puncture on top of a big bump on his head....he had fallen into some rocks playing where he shouldn't have been behind a shed behind the stands. Wash him off and he looks much better, but, for a moment there, he was every parent's worst nightmare....straight out of a horror movie. Suzanne was thinking of getting his haircut this weekend before school starts, but, that plan is out, the hair needs to stay long to hide the bump!
