Jacob came crying and stomping in, clumps of snow all in his collar and hood and some in his ear and dripping down his bright red, horrifically sad face. He muttered and wailed about being hit in the face by a snowball, "IT HIT MY EYES!!!" Michael came in behind him trying to apologize and trying to not laugh, and to not even smile. Jacob would not be consoled and would have nothing to do with Michael so I just signaled Michael to try his apology again later and leave the presence of the mortally wounded. Finally calming down enough to notice or hear me, Jacob let me check his eyes, which seemed to be red but intact. (I have been to the ER with a child with a scratched cornea before, but blessedly Jacob didn't seem to need an ER visit today - our van is buried in snow anyway.) I got the snow brushed off him and a few layers pealed off, and he went from absolutely dying to just bemoaning that his eyes were probably "broken." He seemed to still be able to see everything I tested him on clear enough though. He stayed in with me for awhile, every so often making a comment about his eyes or his eyesight. A few times he sadly said, "I'll probably be colorblind." I was surprised he knew that term, and figured he just meant he was seeing things a little blurry and colors were running together a bit, that he didn't actually know what it means to be colorblind. A little later, he came to me very worried all over again, more tears streaming.
"I'm going to be colorblind. I don't want to be colorblind! Then when I look at everything I will be colorblind, and I don't like colorblind movies, and now ALL the movies I watch will be colorblind!" and he broke down sobbing again.
Nathan! when Jacob gets to those extreme and bizarre thought processes, it usually stems from something Nathan has told him in the past during one of his devious Calvin moments!
Update - Nathan is innocent this time. Jacob, like all my kids and myself, loves to learn and he soaks up knowledge and information like a sponge, but not necessarily completely correct. We tested him on being able to see a variety of different colors and he could see and distinguish them all (red, purple, green, dark green, gray, etc.) so to his great relief, he is NOT "colorblind" (he does not see the world only in black and white like those "old colorblind movies" he doesn't like.)
Warning - do NOT laugh, he doesn't like it and will break down again, "You're making fun of me! Don't make fun of me!" (It is so hard to be the youngest.)
