Anyone who has been a parent long enough for their child to get past the rolling over stage knows that children can hurt themselves in a rubber room. They can also find a myriad of interesting and unusual ways to injure themselves and each other. My children are particularly gifted in this area. When the twins were three, the gift of two toy acoustic guitars turned into an episode of WWF when one child proceeded to break hers over her sister's head. How much fun would that one have been to explain to the newbie doc in the ER? "So, ma'am, how did your daughter get a concussion?" "Well, it involved her sister and a pink guitar..."
My girls often come up with weird and wacky ways to get hurt, but the other night they really outdid themselves. The twins were in the bathtub together, a habit which will soon come to an end simply because they are about to outgrow it and the tub. Apparently there is an understood rule between the two of them that if someone farts in the water, the bath is over. More than once, naked and wet children have come screaming into the living room, one laughing and the other crying. On this particular occasion, one sister had the bubble guts. She raised her rear up out of the water (to avoid defiling said bathwater) and relieved her uh, problem. Her sister screamed, panicked, and whacked her knee on the faucet trying to get out of the line of fire.
I heard the wailing from the other room and rushed in to inspect the carnage, fully expecting blood to be shooting out of someone's body, or else. When I heard the explanation for the blood curdling shrieks emanating from my daughter, all I could do was laugh until I cried. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a new record holder for the most ridiculous injury in our household. Another day in the life. Sigh.
Haha! Oh, this is too funny! I must say, your summer is off to a great start... Never a dull moment. ;)
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