Good morning everyone!
A few months ago, I wrote a post called “Rules I Never Thought I’d Need” listing some rules that I never expected to have to use as a parent. I was hoping that soon I could retire the list permanently, but after Friday, we now have a new one to add.
Do not ram your elbow into the top of a plastic hurricane glass.
Now let me explain.
As you know, last week we went to Destin. While we were there, we drove over to Captain Anderson’s, a wonderful restaurant I will write about another day, for dinner. For dessert, Kayla chose a pudding concoction that Captain Anderson’s serves in the plastic glass pictured above. She got to keep the glass.
Fast forward to Friday evening. When she and I were driving home, she mentioned that she had a small (I looked at it, and I would categorize it as vanishingly small) scratch on her right elbow. I didn’t think any more of it, but shipped her off to take a bath as usual. About 10 minutes later, she started screaming in terror in the bathroom. I came tearing into the bathroom to see what was wrong, only to find that my daughter had stuck her entire elbow into the hurricane glass to the point that the glass was stuck. I started to laugh, (for some reason, that didn’t seem to calm her down!) but managed to get her into the kitchen where I used the spray nozzle to change the temperature of the glass where I could break the suction and pull it off. She has a perfectly round bruise about three inches across on her elbow but otherwise is recovering nicely.
When we got to the point we were capable of coherent conversation (ie., she had stopped screaming and I had stopped laughing) I asked her how it happened that her elbow and the glass came together, and she told me that she had slipped it over her elbow tightly so that her elbow wouldn’t sting due to the vanishingly small scratch she had pointed out early while she took her bath. She only got scared when she couldn’t pull it off again.
For the record, her father thought it was funny, too.
Have a great day everyone!
Nancy
Tales from the Mom-Side 
Adventures in motherhood 🙂 Precious.
Yes, they are. I wouldn’t trade them for anything!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Are you laughing at her for sticking the glass on her elbow, or me for thinking I could retire the list? 🙂
The creative mind of a child! : ) I am sure one day in the future at some family reunion, she will laugh as this is being retold. Not so much laughter though when trying to get the glass off the elbow and mom is on the floor in tears with laughter. : )
She had to admit there was a funny side to it before the evening was out. To my credit, I did not collapse on the floor with laughter, I just kept laughing while I was trying to pull the glass off. It didn’t help her calm down any though, so I guess laughter is not always the best medicine!
So true…sometimes less is more. : ) We moms have to be able to hold back some do we not? Love the ‘Mom Journey’!
Thanks!
You know avoiding the sting on the scratch was TOTALLY worth the bruise :). The logic of kids totally makes me smile sometimes.
The logic does make me smile sometimes; there are other times it can reduce me to tears or self-censorship! I don’t think she counted on the bruise, though, and is now re-thinking possible strategies.