OUCH!!

Sometimes things go the way you've planned, sometimes they don't.

Here are some of the times they didn't....

Last month, Caleb was playing with the backyard tire swing. It all started out as fun and games. First he would run around in circles pushing the tire, coaxing it higher and higher. Then he would step away from the wildly swinging (100 pounds+ ) toy, pick up a strategically placed ball and hurl it straight at the swing (sounds like a typical boy game, right?) This usually produced stunning results, and it was fun and exciting to see which way the ball was thrown (now in the form of a ballistic missile).

After several rounds of this game, Caleb decided to up the ante. He pushed the swing higher than he ever had before (he must have run around that thing 20 times). Watching him from the window, I knew this was going to be a doozy. Unfortunately, before he could step out of the tire's path to pick up the first ball, he was smacked in the side of the nose by a swinging blue monstrosity and dropped like a log!



OUCH! Thankfully nothing was broken (at least we don't think so...), but he sure had pretty colors on his nose for the next week or so.



In other news, last week Trent headed out to play a pick-up game of indoor soccer with some buddies.
This particular game started out just like any other, but ended rather badly.

About 10 minutes into the game, Trent sprinted after the ball, planning to pass it with the outside of his right foot. Unfortunately his timing was off and instead of a successful pass, his foot ended up on top of the ball and threw him completely off balance. He landed hard and flat on the right side of his body. Thankfully, his teammates were around to help him off the field as he couldn't walk without support at that point. After lots of ice and a 45 min. rest, he made the painful drive home. We made a make-shift bed for him on the floor from a foam camping pad (our bed was too "lumpy" to get comfortable). This is where he spent the rest of the day and most of the night.

He also did a pretty good job scraping up his elbow...

By the end of the day we had found a pair of crutches to borrow (preferable to crawling, you know), which he used for the next few days.

As of today, he's progressed to only a slight limp. Now if he could just get that numbness and swelling to go away....