Band-Aid Picture Day

I feel like I've been out of the loop a bit. We moved 3 weeks ago and since before then, I haven't posted anything. Here's a little something to laugh at. The night before Carter's big picture day, he slipped and fell...scraping his temple on a Transformer...just our luck!!! I was asleep when he came to me with 3 scratches on the side of his face. The middle one actually took some skin off. Anyway, through all the drama, I put on medicine, and found that a regular band-aid was too small. All I had was this huge thing to put on the side of his face. I stuck it to his hair and everything...Truthfully...I just wanted to get back to sleep.

I had forgotten about picture day the next day and when we woke up and realized it, I tried to take off the monstrosity. You would think that I was killing him. I decided to get him dressed anyway and thought that maybe I'd have the opportunity to take it off at school before the pic. For pictures, they have to wear their dress uniforms. He looked soooo precious, I just had to take a pic of my own. I found him 2 times at school and tried to rip it off...no such luck. Miss Nan, his teacher, tried too. He ended up not getting to take a picture because I wasn't going to pay for a band-aid picture. We got home that night and Travis and I decided to wait until he was asleep and then yank it off...well...that didn't work either. He immediately woke up and started screaming. I ended up wrapping my arms and legs around him to hold him down and Travis ripped the band-aid off.

The moral of the story is...sometimes band-aids may make your kid feel better in the moment...but, not the next day when you have to rip hair out to get it off...

Anyway, he is by far scarred for life and I swear that the scratch was bigger when I put the giant band-aid on. After we took it off, 2 of the 3 scratches had vanished and the big one...wasn't that big after all..............my life..............thank goodness for picture make-up day!!!