Remember back when Zay had teeth?

I was out in the garage putting some things away, Jerel was at the kitchen table feeding Eliza, and Zay walked up the steps from the garage into the kitchen.  Except he tripped and bounced his jaw on the top step.  I went and picked him up, then asked Jerel to bring a towel because he was bleeding.  Then I noticed he didn't have his two front teeth anymore...Zay was absolutely hysterical, Jerel said words that I'm hoping Zay didn't hear, and once it became apparent that he was in a serious amount of pain we headed for urgent care (it wasn't business hours for his doctor).  They said they didn't do head injuries so they sent us on to the ER.  Fortunately it wasn't very busy and we got in without too much of a wait.  Poor little Zay was trembling and crying, and poor little Jerel had blood all over his shirt.  They kindly took us back before they took the guy who came in ahead of us with a bloody hand, which he reported he had cut on a beer bottle...

Did you know they make baby vicodin? Yep, you can just drink it up. Or, like Zay, just vomit all over the nurse when she gives you a tiny bit of it...The doctor explained that he hadn't actually knocked his teeth out like we thought, he had hit so hard that he impacted them, which is a fancy way of saying he jammed them all the way back into his gums so far that you can't see them anymore. Like this: 


They sent us home with the vicodin and he took it for about a week.  He couldn't eat much, everything was "too crunchy" and now that he's not in pain anymore, he still says everything is too crunchy. 

It's been about a month now and his teeth are starting to come back down.  We originally took him to our family dentist, who told us they don't do anything unless an infection develops, and then they take them out.  So that seemed weird to just wait for an infection to develop rather close to a kid's brain.  So we took him to a pediatric dentist who gave us some more accurate information.  It turns out if you leave them and they don't come down, they can fuse to the jawbone, which would be messy and would affect his permanent teeth.  So now it's a waiting game. If his teeth keep coming down, we're probably okay.  If not, they will have to pull them.  And even if they do come all the way back down, they could turn purple/red/black/gray at any point.  Sounds pretty, huh?  Luckily he's the cutest kid on earth so it's not affecting him too much!