A Bump To the Head and Snow
Greetings to all.
Yesterday, I got a call from the school nurse. No, Xavier did not develop covid symptoms. Instead, he tripped in the classroom and smacked his head against a desk leg. The welt on his forehead was larger than my thumb.
Apart from the thumb-sized lump (or bump as Xavier calls it) on his forehead, Xavier appeared fine. The nurse complimented how much of a trooper he had been, only crying a little with so nasty a fall.
I took Xavier from school and we visited a nearby urgent care center. The doctor on duty looked him over, gave him a cold pack and sent us home. The doctor found no evidence of damage beyond the "bump" on his head, though he did warn that as the bruising cleared up, Xavier may gain a black eye.
Xavier asked for McDonald's for lunch as I picked him up just prior to his lunch hour. So, we had McDonald's for lunch.
As it had snowed about ten inches and most of the snow still covered the ground, Xavier and I built snow forts (OK, snow walls really) and had a snowball fight. The sun was out and the temperature near fifty. Xavier showed no problems playing in the snow, unless a snowball hit his bump.
One of the snow walls listed a bit. I told Xavier, "Throw yourself against the wall and knock it over."
He tried several times, but was a little too timid to commit his thirty-eight pounds against the wall. "Your turn, Dad," he said.
Though not timid to commit my two hundred some pounds against the wall, I was more concerned with getting up after. Still, the wall crashed to the ground and I followed after it.
With only his snow wall standing, we named Xavier the winner of the snowball fight.
