Amanda's Black Eye

I just have to put this in our "blog journal". The Sunday after we arrived at the Brewsters, we all went to their Stake Conference in Salem. The kids were doing OK for their particular ages, but Adam and Asher were very excited to sit together. They played somewhat quietly, with frequent reminders from Amanda to "shhh.... play quietly".

I can't remember the exact details of what happened, but someone went for a car Adam was holding in his hand and he raised his arm up and back to get the car out of the way. He did it so quickly, that Amanda, who was sitting next to him, didn't have time to get out of the way and Adam accidentally smashed the car into Amanda's eye. They sat there for a few minutes before I notice something was wrong. Adam had tears in his eyes and was apologizing very quietly and constantly (I'm sorry! I'm so sorry! I'm sorry!) and Amanda was sitting in agony and patting his hand.

After a quick whispered conversation, Amanda and I left to go find her some ice. Thankfully, there was some in the kitchen freezer. So, yeah, Adam gave his Aunt Amanda a black eye. Sigh.



She was very nice about it and later got laugh out of it. And later that week, there was some cosmic justice. Adam developed a sty in his eye that for a couple of days swelled his eye up almost as much as Amanda's.