A bike, a Mike and a bruised face

On Thursday, I walked into the school and immediately 2 teachers and the school director came walking right up to me, "We are so sorry about what happened to Michael."  I responded with, "Ah, what happened?"    "Oh we didn't get to call you but we posted a note in Michael's chart so you'd see when you clock him out."  "Ahh okay."  I immediately walked over to the chart and saw the following note...

"Michael fell today while riding his bicycle at recess.  We treated his facial injury with an ice pack."

The director then continued to say or maybe I should say "try to justify" what happened.  She said, "I guess Michael was riding the tricycle today and he was going really fast.  Then he turned and the bike tripped over.  I guess he fell face first and the handlebar was between his face and the ground.  He's going to have a really bad bruise."

I immediately went to find Michael and he was busy playing outside and his back was to me.  As soon as I walked outside to pick him up, two more teachers from the 3 and 4 year old classrooms came over and explained the situation to me again. "We are so sorry to see what happened to Michael.  He was going too fast and although we didn't see it happen, it looks really bad."  That's when I looked past them and called to Michael.   He turned around and immediately I saw the handlebar imprint across his left eyebrow, the bridge of his nose and his entire right cheek.  It was swollen and bright red as if it had just happened.  However, I didn't see the remnants of tears so I asked about how long ago it happened.  "Oh it happened this morning around 9:45. 

Really? But I didn't get a phone call I said.  "Oh yea that's because we didn't think it was that bad but now it is looking really painful."  Huh, as I grabbed him by the hand and walked with his brother out of the school.

Don't get me wrong, I do like our school, but if you could see the looks I'm getting now every time I take Michael out, I just feel like I have to justify to everyone exactly what happened and that I do not hurt my child. 

As of today, 3 days after the accident, his face is still swollen and the bruises are coming out.  Although the pictures do not do it justice, here are the pictures of our poor little guy on Thursday night...

Last night Michael wanted to help me clean.  Honestly he did.  So when he was done I asked hi about his bruise.  Here's Michael's explanation of what happened...

Until next time,
Angie