The Shiner

For the life of me I can't get blogger to do what I want it to do!  So please excuse how all these pictures are out of order!  The picture above is day 3 (and in case there is a question, no, those are NOT Ben's real teeth).  The picture below is day 2.

(The above picture is day 5 of the black eye...it now has a green tint, with a little bit of purple mixed in)

Wednesday night while I was on the phone with my sister Shelley, Kallie came running in and told me Ben had a headache.  To be honest, I didn't think much of it and kept talking to Shel.  I happened to turn around a few minutes later and saw Ben on the couch curled up crying.  I quickly got off the phone with Shel and ran over to Ben, feeling horrible!  When I finally was able to remove his hand from his face, his very swollen, bluish blackish eye was starring back at me.  I grabbed a cold cloth and put it on his head.  It was a doozy!

Since I didn't see what happened, this is according to Kallie with a little Ben mixed in.  Jake and Ben were running around our neighbors new shed when they ran into eachother.  The hit on Ben's eye and Jake's forehead.  Ben got a black eye....and Jake got a goose egg on his forehead.

Ben loved the attention he got at school and from everyone who saw him.  I have to admit I was just praying someone didn't think I had done that to Ben!  When we went to his dentist appointment on friday everyone was looking at his eye, but not bringing it up or asking about it.  Finally I couldn't take it anymore and happened to bring it up in our conversation and had Ben tell the story.  I could see the tension leave and we talked and laughed about it.