Needed: Helmet With Face Shield!

It's been a rough couple weeks for my little independent almost 2 year old! He was climbing on his chair one afternoon (one in which I had a million things to do and not a lot of time to do it in). It would have been just fine if not for a little toy air plane he dropped as he was falling. The tail of the plane went into the back of his head which means a trip to the Dr. for two staples. He was really good about the whole thing too. Getting the staples removed the next week was worse then getting them put in. One of the staples malfunctioned while going in which meant a painful removal! When he was done he said his very first sentence "I wanna go home!" and then ran out of the office without looking back!
His independence is sometimes a painful thing to learn. On Tuesday he decided that he could go down the front two steps without holding onto anyone or anything. Well he went down head first. Cement does terrible things to the face! This is a picture of him a few hours after it happened.

This is what is looked like the next day...before he did the same thing all over again. We were going to a dinner and it was dark. He made it down the steps just fine but then tripped over his own two feet and went down. I thought he avoided hitting his head and put him in the car. When we got into the light of the building I saw that he had hit his face and had a fat lip! I really need a helmet with a face shield for this kid!