Crack the…Jake?
A few weeks ago we bought a trampoline for our family to enjoy. We bought it for Isaak’s birthday knowing the kids would ALL enjoy it more than just him alone. What we didn’t expect is that Austin and I would enjoy it more than all five kids combined!! It seems like we find ourselves jumping on it and playing games, kicking the kids off so we have more room and learning new tricks. We’re on it more than the kids are! I guess I’d forgotten how much fun a trampoline is!
One evening we were all out on the trampoline bouncing away and playing a game called, Crack the Egg. I’m sure you’ve heard of it, but if not, one person sits in the middle of the trampoline all curled up in a ball (think fetal position) and the others have to bounce the middle person to try and “crack” them. They have to get the middle person to let go of their bent knees and spread out.
We had all taken turns as the egg and it was now Jake’s turn as Austin and I bounced around him trying to get him to unfold. Well, it turned out that we took the phrase, “crack”, a tad too literally. Before we knew it, Jake was flying in the air and his knee smashed right into the top part of his cheek bone and the poor kid was in immediate pain!
I knew right away that it was going to be a bad bruiser because it started swelling and turning purple just minutes after it happened. Sure enough, several days later Jake had a bona-fide shiner with his parents to blame! I felt horrible and worried about it the first few days wondering if it had broken his orbital bone or damaged his eye. Luckily I have great friends who are so low key and chill and I was put to ease when my good friend Dena said, “What’s childhood without a good black eye?” Not to mention Jake the fact that Jake looked pretty cool and tough for about 2 weeks!
Has anything like this ever happened to you?
ya never know when mom and dad might take it out on you, ya just never know..lol
is he holding a shoe up to his face in the first pic? poor guy, it’s hard to look so handsome with a shiner, but he totally does! what a cutie.