All Banged Up

It's the age.  Guard isn't a terribly clumsy child, but he seems to have taken his fair share of spills lately (stupid wiggle car).  By the time he cut up his lip today, he already had a big scab by his eye, another cut on his elbow and his legs were a mosaic of yellow, green and purple bruises.
No wonder the doctor had questions.
We are not sure exactly what happened.  We think Guard was pushing his big stroller, it rolled faster than he thought it would and he fell forward trying to keep up with it.  He came in the house screaming, covered in blood with more pouring out of his mouth.  His mouth was bleeding so much we couldn't stop it to see how bad the cut was.  We thought he might have bitten through his lower lip.  It looked bad enough to take him in.  Thankfully our pediatrician office has Saturday hours.
By the time we reached the office, the bleeding had slowed to a drip.  The on-call doctor said that is was a bad cut, but it didn't go through and he wouldn't need stitches.  Guard was an ideal patient and laid so still while the doctor was poking around.

Poor kid.  He's had a rough week.  We kept him on Advil for a day and them tried Orajel for the swelling and pain.  Guard hated the Orajel and would scream, 'mo, mo, mo' (no, no, no) and run away if we got out the medicine.  So, we just left it.  He seems to be doing fine.  He's a tough kid.