The shiner

So as most of you have heard Nicholas was kind enough to start my new year off with a black eye. No not just a little bump, a full on old fashioned shiner! On New Years Eve no less. I was chasing him to change his diaper and he head butted me right in the face, the kind of hit where you see stars and then once you catch your breath wonder if there will be blood. Boy that little one has a hard head. He was fine, I was not. I proceeded to change his diaper and while I was doing that I could see my eye swelling up. I went to the bathroom to assess the damage and was not surprised to see a huge lump. Chris described it the best, "you look like a boxer." We went on with our evening, visited friends and joked about the swollen lump on my face. Well the next day and into the next couple of weeks the rainbow of colors appeared. Black, purple, green, blue, yellow. Every morning I went to the bathroom hoping it was gone, NOPE! Needless to say I had a lot of strange looks when I was out and even people who had heard about it when they actually saw me were surprised. It has pretty much gone away now but I am still a little jumpy in Nicks presence and a little more cautious with diaper changes.