Yesterday, Benjamin and I and Jacob were out on the patio. Jacob was playing by his sandbox, and Benjamin and I were reading a book about tornados and how they form and what kind of damage they do. We were sitting in their free standing poarch swing (like ours). There was mostly just a breeze, quite pleasant, really. But every few minutes a big gust of wind would hit, that Benjamin thought fun...and it went right along with the book we were reading about powerful winds and such. But then, a really strong gust of wind hit all of the sudden, which was strong enough that I was worried aboout Jacob getting blown over backwards (he was standing), and he started to cry cause it was blowing sand in his eyes, so I ran to go pick him up and hurry into the house, but no sooner had I picked up Jacob but Benjamin began to cry. The wind had blown the swing over on top of Benjamin, and he had done a faceplant on the cement. He had bit his lip which was bleeding, and given him a pretty good size goose-egg on his forehead and scraped up his knee and nose pretty good, and you can see where the bar that knocked him down hit on the back of his neck, but it could have been alot worse. So I was grateful it wasn't. Benjamin was pretty sure he was going to die for awhile :) but somehow miraculously, he did recover and now has battlescars to gloat over with his friends. Strange timing though, and Benjamin does have a new understanding of how powerful winds can be bad though.
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