Blind Boy Running

Leah, Rebekah and Joseph were chasing each other around the coffee table. The girls had their blankets.

Suddenly, Leah had a brilliant idea (an impulse, really) to throw her blanket over Joseph's head just as he rounded the end of the table. Unfortunately, Joseph's mind was not mature enough to mentally record the layout of the room and move accordingly once his vision was impaired.

Instead of completing the turn and entering the 'straight-away', Joseph continued a headlong course right into the piano bench. The momentum of the collision forced him backwards, causing him to trip over his own tiny feet. As his ankles twisted around each other, he fell to the side and banged into the bottom of the piano.

There he lay in a writhing heap of legs, blanket and flailing arms as he began his shrieks; a mixture of surprise, anger and injury.

Of course, this was a time that his mother was attempting a telephone conversation and Joseph's deafening screams filled the room as well as the ear of the other person on the phone. (It's believed by mothers of all ages that children's accidents are 75% more likely to happen while the mother is on the phone.)

The effects of the incident were a bloody mouth which was easy clean up with a tissue and a drink of water. There are not expected to be any lasting effects - physical or emotional.

And now both girls have learned that throwing a blanket over Joseph's head while he is running is not a good idea. So, it was an educational experience! I wonder what else we will learn this morning?