A Face only a Mother Could Love

Look at his face! Every time I see these pictures, I chuckle. Even if I had never taken these pictures, the story alone was enough to make me chuckle. Luke and his brothers were playing all morning. Sometime in the afternoon, I noticed this horrible rash on his face. I tried to remain calm and started asking him what this could be from. My questions were: “Did you fall?” “Do your lips hurt?” (Every now and then he gets chapped lips, so I thought that maybe his face was chapped, but that didn’t make sense either because his skin was soft where the rash was at) “Did one of your brothers hit you? His response to all of this was simply no, and an occasional, “The toy did it.” Well, I had no idea what he was talking about…the toy? But he held firm to the “toy theory.” Finally after a good 15-30 minutes, I told him to show me what toy. He came back with a truck block from Kaleb’s Mega Blok truck set. I looked at it and asked if he fell down on it or something, and then finally he proceeded to tell me what happened. He said that he stuck it to his face around his mouth. Finally I understood. It all made sense why it wasn’t dry skin, but very smooth skin. He gave yourself a HICKEY!!!!!!!!!! His first hickey wasn’t given to you by a girl (which should never ever happen either!), but by a toy block. Bless his little heart. OF course I probably made a bigger deal about it than I should have because the next night at church, he proceeded to tell everyone, “Look, I got a hickey!” Whoops!