My feet were on the floor before I could fully register the sound. The fuck? I was sure I’d heard a crash. The lamps on the bedside table had rattled, hadn’t they? My water glass scraped against the stone coaster, right? Could it have been another earthquake? Or was that just the most vivid dream ever?
As my eyelids dropped for a first blink, Paul’s scream vaulted up the stairs. Again my feet moved without my conscious command, nearly sliding down the carpeted steps in their urgency.
“Are you ok?” I choked, my words already behind me in my haste.
Rocco’s strained voice replied, “We’re fine.” I rounded the corner to find Rocco splayed upon the wooden floor wearing a sheepish grin. Paul sat calmly on his lap. “I think we were just a bit startled.”
“We?” I paused to catch my breath and wait for my heart to climb back up my legs and into my chest.
“And I may need to lose some weight,” he continued, toying with a piece of blue rubber on the floor. I noticed it was not the only one.
“Is that the exercise ball?”
“It was. And Paul is no longer interested in a nap.”
Those balls are bitches.
I almost broke my neck on one.
Don’t even get me started with what my parents do with theirs…
Holy shit! The exercise ball EXPLODED? What the hell was Rocco doing on it, LOL?
ROFLMAO!
As one who has fallen off an exercise ball — in a class full of apparently more coordinated people — I feel Rocco’s pain.
Exercise schmecsercise.
That’s why I’m never getting one of those.
Plus. then I’d actually have to exercise. That’s not really appealing.
This is me getting you started on what your parents do with theirs.
If you knit it a canvas sweater and zip it tightly inside, exercise balls are great for crab soccer! I bet you have no freaking idea what I’m even talking about and are convinced that I only dreamed that my gym teacher made us play this relentlessly. Look^ I used “freaking” instead of the other word! My new internal censor works~
http://www.grabcart.com/product/Sports/P%20E/elroy52-atl22004spo/Sportogoand-153-Giant-Soccer-Ball-40-22004
Why we haven’t already begun to firm up a crab soccer team is beyond me.
Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!
Um, I mean, is he okay?!
Ouch!
I love how often the little ones come away unscathed.
Rocco could have told the story as how he bravely sacrificed himself to save Paul from an imminent fall from the giant blue ball.