The Pictures...

Yea...I'll get to that in a minute. First, here is a picture of Ryan rocking himself in the chair in which his daddy was rocked as a baby. Cute! Okay...the pictures....they....
...didn't happen! Thursday morning Ryan woke up and looked like he'd slept with a family of mosquitos. I thought "oh great, he has a mosquito in his room." The problem was he kept getting more and more "bites" throughout the day. It didn't take too long before I decided maybe it wasn't that we'd just experienced a major infestation of mosquitos in my house. I watched welps emerge throughout the day. The next morning he had even more bumps...some big welps other small red marks.

I took Ryan to the doctor. He had a viral infection and the doctor said it "hit him hard". He said to keep an eye on it and gave me a list of things to look for warranting a return visit. I called JCPenney's and cancelled our appointment for the pictures. It was a good thing too because Friday ended up being one accident after another. He took off running and fell into the corner of the file cabinet. That ended up being one big, huge, yellow, nasty bruise on the right side of his forehead. Later that evening as we were getting ready to go out to dinner Ryan yanked the hair dryer off the chair. Where did it land? On his left eye...leaving it with a nice bruise the next day. Now that I think about it, Ryan looked pretty rough. The restaurant crowd probably wondered what had happened.

Now Ryan favors sides...for hitting his head that is. He has a spot on the right side of his forehead that he manages to always hit when he falls. When the tumble starts we know where he's going to land...on that right forehead.

Oh...and by the way...the rash was completely gone Saturday morning. :)