Nicola's Baby Blog

First Shiner

At the age of three and a half, Jake has his very first (and hopefully last) shiner and I am partially involved.  I was going to write that I was partially to blame but I simply cannot accept any blame in this wacky scenario.

I made Jake his dinner and decided that I'd let him eat on the couch.  (I was watching Dr Phil!)  I carried a dinner plate full of food into the living and started sitting down on the couch.  As I did that, Jake came running into the room in a very excited state.  He squealed and, full of energy, ran right into the plate of food.  The edge of the plate hit him right near his left eye and he immediately started to cry.

Ruth, who was with us, gasped and ask whether the fork had hit him.  Luckily, no.

I quickly had a look at his eye and there was a tiny cut or scratch next to his eye that had a tiny drop of blood.  Wow, I thought, not much damage.  Yay!

Jake quickly recovered and ate his meal.

The following day though, he has a shiner.  A purple bruise on his eyelid.  Poor kid.

Of course, whilst visiting my Mum's place yesterday, I heard all the jokes that I knew would come:  Are you beating him?  Has your Mummy been knocking about?  Poor Jake; you can come and stay with Nanny!

Oh well.  I hope Jake will be careful around dinner plates from now on!

20.11.07 03:25