My son the tough guy.

It is almost to the point of happy tears that I write this. My son Jayden is such an amazing child. Alison is also choked up tonight about how much we love our son and how awesome he really is.

So to the story,

Jayden and Kallee were taking a bath, and as always I am multi tasking by folding the laundry. All of a sudden I hear Kallee say "oh no JJ oh no JJ!!! and calling for daddy. I go in thinking Jayden is playing with something and come to find my son sitting in the bathtub with blood just streaming down his face. I do the nervous laugh and say Jayden are you okay. Of course, not being father of the year I tell my goodness JJ that is amazing... then have him get out of the bath and then look in the mirror,,,, then I get my phone and start taking pics.

Why am I taking pics... because I am shocked how calm my son is... he is smiling for goodness sake. I start cleaning up when we hear mommy coming up.. I tell Jayden that wait till mommy see's it... he says mommy is going to laugh at me... I suck as a daddy as I laughed... poor jj and dumb daddy. Alison is scared for JJ and wants to know if we should take him to the emergency room. I again take a pic and send it to Boyd. Boyd calls right back and says yes! So we take him and drop Kallee off. He wants to show Grandma Gebers the cut,, and she of course takes a picture. My wife thinks we are a strange family with all of the pics...

Alison, as a very protective and nercous mother starts asking JJ how is he and if he is okay and if he is alright. I ask him if he can count to ten and he does no problem... we get out of the car and just to see if he has a concussion, I ask him questions about things and he answers everything right. Including what color was the sidewalk and he said "cracky". (there were a lot of cracks).

We take him to KGH, Kennewick General Hospital, where he was treated awesome by the staff and the Doctor.

He sits very well and makes up always sit in the same seats and in the same order every time we have to talk to nurses and staff there.

Dr. Gurney was amazing and got Jayden all stiched up.

And this is where I get choked up.... Through the shots and the stiches he never cries or gets nervous and never does anything but sit patiently and wait. He gets 3 different layers of stitches with the last set having about 9 stitches.

Alison starts holding Jayden's hand but has to sit down after a while,, she is green and pale and the nurse is more worried about her passing out then Jayden who again, is just sitting patiently.

After it is done the Nurse gives Jayden stickers with Hot Wheels and he is so happy. He also tells his mommy, who is still not feeling well, that everything is okay and it did not hurt and she should be okay. He is telling his mother that all is fine and he is so happy with the stickers.

It was hard not to tear up thinking about how so blessed we are.. He shares his stickers with his sister, because she does not have any. Jayden shares his chocolate with his mommy because he thinks that is right... and so it goes for my son, just another day in his interesting and adventurous life.