The Injury

Fuss tweaked his foot jumping off the bed a few days ago.

Here's what it looked like after his trip to the doctor for an x-ray (which was negative, happily):

As there's nothing really to do, from a parenting standpoint, it's a frustrating experience.
How do you prevent it?  You don't.  He's a boy, he crazy, and he spends most of his waking hours climbing & jumping off things.  There's a limit on what you can stop them from doing before you hit the point of diminishing returns and backlash so I ration my disapprobation carefully. If my dream was to keep him from jumping off the bed, or the couch, or sliding down the stairs headfirst like a snake I'd have to invest in one of those indoor dog kennels.

This morning he woke up and took a few tentative steps on it, a major improvement.  An energetic toddler suddenly prevented from running around like a maniac is a parenting challenge with a high degree of difficulty. He wasn't much of a crawler- he went from shoving himself across the floor face-first with his legs to sprinting without very few intermediate stages.  It was weird having this giant toddler eagerly scampering around like a crab- floors are DIRTY, man.

I've toted him around like a sack of flour all week, hopefully this is the day the tide turns.