So it's been fairly quiet lately, which Liam decided to rectify the other night by introducing his skull to the coffee table. Table, skull. Skull, table. Nice to meet you.
I'm not sure exactly what happened - well, that's not true. He slammed his face into the coffee table. That's pretty much it. There was some sort of mischief with hopping around and some unstable footing, but the actual head-smacking was blindingly obvious. His eye swelled up quite a bit, and he did a lot of hollering. Typical head injury stuff.
Unfortunately Liam, although performing this stunt a mere 3 feet in front of me, managed to pull it off in a record 0.4 seconds, thus preventing me from doing anything about it. See, they learn this stuff when trying to get away with things, and sometimes it backfires on them. Live and learn.
The frozen compress was applied, and he calmed down. We didn't take any pictures of the swollen eye (regrettably), but here's what he looks like three days later:
I'm not sure exactly what happened - well, that's not true. He slammed his face into the coffee table. That's pretty much it. There was some sort of mischief with hopping around and some unstable footing, but the actual head-smacking was blindingly obvious. His eye swelled up quite a bit, and he did a lot of hollering. Typical head injury stuff.
Unfortunately Liam, although performing this stunt a mere 3 feet in front of me, managed to pull it off in a record 0.4 seconds, thus preventing me from doing anything about it. See, they learn this stuff when trying to get away with things, and sometimes it backfires on them. Live and learn.
The frozen compress was applied, and he calmed down. We didn't take any pictures of the swollen eye (regrettably), but here's what he looks like three days later:
Alright, get your namby-pamby cringing and gasping out of the way, cause there sure wasn't any of that around here. That's MY boy. Next morning, he was right back in the saddle, baby. Did a little swollen eye slow him down? Slight lack of vision, tender bruising? Not that little guy. He ain't taking no SMACK from no COFFEE TABLE.
Well, he sort of did take a smack from it. But you know what I mean.
Anyway, he's fine. Jill called the pediatrician as soon as it happened and they said "ice it, he'll be fine." And he is.
The coffee table is on notice, though.
3 comments:
I always kind of had a feeling about that coffee table. It seemed a little crooked to me, but some furniture is just that way.
Oh bless his little eye!
Wow! I mean OW! What a shiner! Glad you are recovering, and please be careful around those tables, fireplaces, etc. Love, M'Amy
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