About Time
October 15, 2008
Yesterday at around 10:30 at night I was sitting in my comfy chair when I heard a loud crash from upstairs followed by a wails of pain. My five year old had rolled out of his bed and hit his cheek on the corner of his nightstand. There was alot of blood. He had a nice cut on his right cheek that was about an inch long. As I was holding him I mouthed to Heather, “Don’t freak out”. My thinking is to not make a big deal out of it so maybe he wouldn’t either. Of course she freaked out. First she said that I need to wake up our daughter and get her ready because we all needed to go to the hospital. I said I would take him myself, no need to put out the whole family. Then I got the look that says I’m a total idiot. The one where she says nothing and just shakes her head in disgust at me. Then she tried to page the on-call pediatricians? She wanted to confirm if we could wait to get stitches in the morning. The whole time we are “discussing” the situation our son is balling his eyes out. Finally she decided to take him herself. She said she didn’t want me telling him to toughen up or that he was ok. He received two stitches from the doctor. When they came back around midnight I made three bowls of ice cream and watched an episode of Caillou. All was well once again.
If you want to know who or what Caillou is here you go. I’m advising against it though.
http://www.sproutonline.com/sprout/videos/character.aspx?preset=caillou
October 15, 2008 at 2:35 pm
I love Caillou!! But who knew it was on in the middle of the night??? What are those programmers thinking?
October 16, 2008 at 12:22 am
I actually like Caillou too. It portrays kids more realisticly. My son likes him alot. We have the on-demand feature from Comcast. This lets you go back and select different episodes any time you’d like.
October 18, 2008 at 12:46 pm
I too have had Caillou in my life, we have an interactive computer game that teaches reading and math.
I am glad your son is okay. I know the stare you mentioned I too give it to my husband. He made a comment tonight that I critize him too much and I gave him the stare, except he didn’t see it he was on the computer with his back to me.