Our good friends Jim and Anita Smith always invite us out to their place for their annual Independemce Day Celebration in Fruitland. If you recall last year Hyrum was severely burned on his foot from a bamboo sparkler(needless to say we didn't buy those this year). So we are out having a BBQ, the kids are playing on the slip-n-slide and Shad wraps up in his towel and heads up the stairs on their deck and he falls on his face and of course his hands don't catch him because they are wrapped in his towel. He gets up and says he's okay and the next thing we see is blood gushing out of his lip. Anita picked him up and brought him inside and we put ice on it and checked it out. Sure enough his tooth went through the inside and the outside of his lip hit the stairs so the pressure of that caused it to split open. It almost went all the way through. Jim and Joshua rushed him to the E.R. in Ontario. He was a tough kid. He sat there very still and watched the doctor put 2 stitches on the inside of his mouth and 6 stitches on the outside and didn't move a muscle. Jim gave him 1,000 man points and Jim's son who is Hyrum's age gave him 1million man points for being so tough. They were only gone about an hour and a half and when they got back we set off fireworks and Shad didn't miss a beat. He was out doing sparklers and snaps and snakes and the whole bit as if nothing happened. We had quite the eventful 4th, but realize it could have been much worse. He got his stitches out on Thursday and it looks like he will have little or no scarring. This kid has been to the E.R. 3 times in his 5 short years of life. We hope it is the last.
