I took these pictures as soon as I could but believe me, they were much more spectacular in real life.
First, Nathan's fat lip due to a baseball...
... and Stephen's black eye. Really more of a purple and red eye.
Stephen's wasn't caused by a baseball. It was a water balloon. And why would a water balloon do that much damage? Well, a normally thrown water balloon wouldn't but one launched from a giant sling shot (one that requires three people to launch it) would.
No, his parents didn't shoot him in the face. The children brought it to the park yesterday to impress their friends. Which they did. They went for distance shots and accuracy shots. Then they decided to shoot it up in the air and see how high it would go. So two of them stood on picnic tables and the third person crouched on the ground and shot the balloon straight up. It went really far. Nathan estimates 100 ft in the air.
The other children were trying to catch it when it came down. They were unsuccessful except for one boy who caught one in a lacrosse net. After that, Stephen was trying to catch it with his hands and it came through a tree so he lost track of it. It hit him straight on in the face and bent his glasses (glad we were going to get new ones this week anyway) and gave him that great black eye. I was thankful that the glasses didn't break and cut him. I guess I neglected to tell the boys not to catch 100 ft high water balloons with their hands. Silly me.
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Funny how all these rules come up as you parent ... the list ends up longer and much more detailed than I expected -...
how's it looking these days?
My favorite one was "don't clip your overalls to the tire swing and then jump".
S's eye is looking much better. It is in the yellow stage but the abrasions are almost all gone. It is harder to notice. I think he's a little disappointed that it didn't turn all black like it does in the movies!
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