Catching Air

We went to the park sledging this morning.  CyclopsJnr found a jump some other kids had made, and spent about and hour just sledging over it.  He did take a brief break to pretend to be a penguin slithering into the sea by sliding over it on his tummy, but mostly it was sledging.

After lunch and a nap we came back for more.  After doing this run a few times, CyclopsJnr wanted to go back to the big hill where lots of other people were sledging.  On his first run he ended up sideways a couple of times and ended up heading a bit off the slope. Half way down he got off and relaunched himself (head first on the sledge this time) and set of at enormous speed, whooping with delight.  

Unfortunately as he neared the bottom some much older kids set off down a smaller slope at ninety degrees to the long run CyclopsJnr was on...  They ran right into him, and since there were two of them and one of him the transfer of momentum sent him flying!  It was a pretty dramatic crash.  Cyclops and MrsCyclops both ran down the hill to check he was OK.  He was a bit stunned, but other than bleeding from a small cut near his eye, he seemed fine.  He went back to sledging on his favourite jump.

The cut didn't stop bleeding for a long while, and opened up a again a couple of times.  After dinner we decided to take a precautionary trip to minor injuries.  It was deserted, and we were seen almost immediately - a fabulous service.  The nurse was very kind and cleaned the cut up.  She swithered about whether to put a paper stitch on it, but it stopped bleeding a bit and once cleaned up she decided it would probably be more of a pain for him, since it was close to his eye.

Home we went, and by bedtime some more swelling had started to come up, and I think we could probably just about tell what brand of welly he was hit by now...

Wee scone, he was incredibly brave both after the crash and about letting the nurse clean up the cut.  What a good boy.

I fear there may be more sledging tomorrow if he gets his way - we'll have to see if his parents nerves can stand it.