The Nose Story

OK, so one night back in May, I was busily trying to get the kids ready to go. We were meeting Grammy and Grandad for dinner, and then they were going to come back to the house and watch the kids while Jesse and I went to a White Lies concert. Shortly before it was time to go, Graham and Nate had the shortest of altercations which ended with Graham slamming his nose onto the TV stand. I checked it out, it was bleeding, so I put a band aid on it, which was more upsetting to him than actually hitting it, and then I went upstairs to feed Olivia so that we could go.
By the time I got back downstairs, about 20 min later, Graham was still crying quite loudly, and his nose had swollen to about twice it's normal size. So my first thought was that it was broken. But, being the good mom that I am, I loaded up all of the kids to go and get dinner first. On the car ride over there, Graham was still crying, and saying "owie" over and over again. So I thought, well, if he doesn't stop crying, then we'll go to the ER. But I told him that if he wanted to go to dinner with Grammy and Grandad, that he would have to stop crying, and he did pretty well, and was even happy once everyone was there.
So then, once again, because I am such an awesome mom, Jesse and I head down to DC for the concert. I figured he wasn't crying anymore, and I did give him some Motrin before we left. Plus, it was bed time anyway. The next morning, the swelling had not gone down at all, and after a call to the Pediatrician, we headed over to the ER. Graham was actually pretty happy while we were there, which was nice.

And even though everyone who looked at it thought it was broken, after an xray, it was determined that it was not actually broken. So we didn't have to do anything about it.

He did get a nice shiner out of it though!