As Tori explained it, she had just come home from a trip she took to Disneyland with friends when disaster struck.
"I came home, I was home for maybe an hour, we had just eaten dinner, and we were having so much fun, just catching up, the kids were playing soccer with Zach," she began.
Apparently, the family was playing in the entryway of their home, which Tori described as "very spacious" with "tons of room to play," so what happened next was a surprise.
"Yeah we were just playing soccer, we were having a great time," Zach said. "Lilah's turned into quite the little soccer player...but then Jackson slipped, on the rug."
"He went a little too hard trying to save the ball...and slammed right into the arm of one of our chairs," added Tori.
"And like the chairs that are in our entryway they're pretty like, cushioned," she continued. "I've never thought of those chairs—I've always thought of the hearth, they're going to hit their head on the hearth or they're gonna hit their head on the coffee table. Those have always been my scary 'don't play around those' things, but I never once thought these chairs would ever be an issue."
Unfortunately, Jackson managed to hit the "exposed wood" on one of the chairs, which "split open the back of his head."
"Bad, bad, bad," Zach said, going on to say that Tori "responded brilliantly," especially since she had a "problem" in the past with panicking when the kids get hurt.
"She expresses so much concern and anxiety and fear on to our kids when they get hurt, she'll gasp and like, it makes her feelings the dominant feelings and the kids are looking right at her, so then they proceed to cry, get scared, whatever else," Zach explained.
"She's gotten a lot better at being calm," he added. "You know, it's all about how you're projecting yourself to your kids in that scenario. It's not about how you feel and expressing how you feel, it's about, in my opinion, the child and how they feel, and what feelings should you be portraying to them in that situation...it helps the child stay calm."
"I feel like you almost panicked last night," Tori interjected.
"I did not panic, I saw a lot of blood coming out," Zach clarified, explaining that he was focused on "solutions" and getting Jackson into the bathroom away from his siblings, Lilah and Josiah .
The mother-of-three then took Jackson, who "never cries," to urgent care, with the little boy acting impressively "tough" throughout the ordeal—though he finally broke down.
"It wasn't until they put the staples in that he cried, and I cried cause I like just can't handle watching him be in pain," Tori admitted.
"Then obviously they had to go out for ice cream," Zach joked.
"Obviously I had to get him Dairy Queen on the way home, and he was fine after that," Tori agreed.
"I would just like to point out that zero children went to the urgent care when you were gone," Zach pointed out.
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