The Fading Shine of the Shiner

When Clara saw her new room for the first time, she was really excited.  But she got a little too excited.  She ran to jump on her new beanbag but misjudged it and bounced her face off the window sill.  She cried and cried, and we immediately put the cold monkey (essentially a reusable ice pack for kids) on the wound, which looked like it was very close to breaking the skin, but it didn't.  It left a small scab though, as the skin was still damaged, and she also had a black eye.  Like bruises tend to do, every day it looked a little different.  Some days it looked like she was wearing pretty purple eye shadow, and other days it looked like someone had sucker punched her in the eye.  But it's finally getting close to being healed.  Here you can see the light pink spot by the corner of her eye where the scab was, and the bruising that's still present but fading.  It should be gone soon, but the new rule of not jumping on the beanbag when it's by the window is here to stay.