Things That Go Bump in the Afternoon

I sent Eric and Jack out to play yesterday afternoon, and not thirty seconds after the door closed I heard Eric wailing like he had lost a limb. I went to the the door and found him holding his poor little head and crying about falling off of his tricycle, "Mommy, you forgot to put my helmet on!" Yikes!
In these pictures the swelling has gone down quite a bit so things are not as dramatic looking but initially I thought that this was the biggest goose egg I had ever seen, seriously, the bump was probably twice as high. I phoned my Mom to hone up on signs of concussion and then spent the next half an hour with my hear in my throat, but as you can see he is fine and back to his goofy little self.
We had a talk last night at supper about how it's everyone's own responsibility to put their helmet on when they are going to ride their bikes. Eric said why and Darrel told him because it was his head that would get hurt if he didn't wear it, and that seemed to sink in because there was no more "why" questions. I am glad he's got a tough little noggin.