We rode our bikes to school today so Natalie had to ride her’s home too. It was pouring rain at dismissal time. I unpacked the rain gear I got for camping trips, got dressed in my poncho William in his rain jacket we headed out to get Natalie. (No I did not get pictures of us)
William loved riding his bike in the rain and we made it to school without any problems.
Natalie got her bike and made her way to us, I gave her rain jacket to her and I took her book bag and put it under my poncho and we started for home. We made it almost to our street and William WIPED OUT. It was one of those slow motion things that I had to watch and could do NOTHING about. He started to go out of control, he put one foot out as the bike was wobbling. As he came to a drive way apron he fell and slid on his leg, bike on top of the leg, hands down scrapping on the sidewalk trying to stop the movement, into the nearby grass. (Keep in mind that there is only one drive way on this part of the side walk, the rest of the side walk is lined by grass so of course he went down on the concrete).
He got the bike off of himself and saw the wound and yelled, “OUCH, OUCH, OH, OH”. I saw it as he was getting up and saw the white through all the blood. I was actually happy that he got himself out from under the bike that was a good sign that maybe nothing was broken. I had taken a small towel with us to dry our bike seats and my glasses so I put that on his leg, more to get it out of his sight than anything else. I picked him up and held him for about a minute, and then put him down to see if I had a band aid in my bike bag or Natalie’s back pack, no such luck. While I was looking William got up and picked up his bike and got ready to ride. So we rode home, slowly, and he was fine. I bandaged it up because of the spot; a regular band aid would fall off. I’m pretty sure this is just the first of many falls for William.
His threshold for pain is so high, it’s a little scary, I wish it would slow him down a bit, but I’m sure he will be Evil Coneviling it down the sidewalk on Monday.
While I was patching William up I pulled off a piece of athletic tape to keep the wrap on.
He was checking out the tape and said to me
W: “Oh that’s duct tape that will keep it on my leg”
Me: “No it’s athletic tape, like band aid tape”
W: “Maybe it’s goose tape”
1. I’m so proud that my son knows what duct tape is!
2. I think he yelled more when I peeled the tape off his leg, than when he fell and got the boo boo. I’m never allowed to put that on him again!
Sorry for the gross pictures, William was happy to pose for them and requested that I have prints made so I can put them into his photo album.
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