For Jordy, the Child Ninja, the first day was a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad, day.

To start things off, he woke up on the ceiling, which always makes his neck hurt.

The heater was on, and since heat rises, he was sweating like a baked ham.

Then when he flipped down, he bonked his head on the bedpost and stumbled backward into his science project that was sitting on the edge of his desk.

e had stayed awake far too long working on his science project that was sitting on the edge of his desk.

His teacher hated students who got F's, and now he was going to disappoint his teacher, his parents, and his Great Uncle Flynn, who believes in his soul that Jordy is going to save the world one day.

Jordy picked up the pieces of his project and tiptoed down the stairs, where he stepped on his little sister's roller skate.

Apparently, the skate was large enough for a ninja carrying a science project to slip on and tumble down the stairs.

His mother opened the front door at just the right moment. Uggg!

He didn't bother getting breakfast; instead, he marched right into the car and waited until his mother came out to drive him to school.

They arrived so late that he would earn his twelfth tardy, which gave him a lunch detention.

On top of all that, when he got out of the car, he tripped on the curb.

He dropped his project into a mud puddle that was still miraculously there from the rainy night a week ago.