Face Plant

I got a call from Merritt's first grade teacher today. My first thought was that she was calling to tell me that he had been in a fight or something, but no - she was calling to report an injury Merritt had sustained during first recess. She told me that the skin around his eye was all cut up, swollen and bruised so I immediately bundled the kids up and raced to the school to see him for myself. The scratches and scrapes did look painful, and I did bring him home, but the whole scenario was much milder than my over-active imagination painted it. Here is what happened, in Merritt's own words.

"Umm. Me and Gabe and Becca were playing house and me and Gabe were baby pet T-Rex's and I used my face to bump into Gabe and Gabe turned sideways, I mean, he jumped sideways and I tripped over a snow rock made out of snow and I fell and my eye hit the ground really hard and it hurt but I didn't cry. That's it."

The dangers of recess are now revealed...snow rocks made of snow. Chad and I need to have a talk with Merritt about using his face to run into stuff.