Kids #2

[Moosie]

So, Whats some scarey stuff your kids have done and how freaky was it ?

For Example, once we put Mouse traps out and one of my boys got his hand in one. Onother time Zach grabbed my Shaving Razor and cut his Fingers and came out and Said, Mom, dad, this cut me. Nothing Crazy but makes you think......

I know alot of things happen alot worse then that. I know a few alot worse and Makes me cringe, I couldn't imaging anything happening to the little guys....

Share a Story.

Mojave with the Window episode and Browtine with the treadmill... Come on, share a story or two.

 

[browtine]

my 4 year old was climbing on tread mill...he likes to climb.. he was wearing a sweater that has a hood...he climbed up on top of the handles...I was sitting about 10 feet away and was surfin the web..and I hear this faint cry saying dady help...scared the hell out of me..i look up and his hood caught on the handle and is now hanging him. his feet were danging and he had this look on his face that could break anyones heart..I about died...I am still not over this incident just thinking the "what if I had been in the other room"...Scary stuff..

 

[Delw]

Oh man I could write a book on this subject just with my three kids.

Anthony deciding he wanted to drive by himself and totalling our truck while scouting for elk.

Dani deciding she really wanted to goto school after all and while I was driving back to the shop grabs the steering wheel and makes me run off the road in a major intersection.

Then there is claudia, shes only 4 but I think she will ending up topping our other kids.


Kids gotta love em.

I am sure april will toss some more in.
Delw

 

[Delw]

Oh crap,
Oscar remember the time I called you about the pepper cause I coudlnt get ahold of April LMAO


Delw

 

[DRAFTSTUD]

browtine, That is scary!! My son Travis loves water sports, we were on Cross Lake on the Pontoon Boat pulling him on a kneeboard and he fell forward. As he fell forward, his arm went through the handle part and twisted around his upper arm, he flew up into the air like a porpoise! When we got to him the rope had taken all the fats and fluids in his arm and squeezed them into the lower arm area. We called 911 and an ambulence was waiting at the dock. He looked terrible, but he bounced back with a little rehab on that arm and pitches in baseball. If that had happened to adult we would be crippled!

 

[DRAFTSTUD]

OK, I just thought of a time year before last. It was late August and all the boys were trying to do everything that they were'nt able to do that summer. Well, Travis and the other Brain Doctors that live nearby had taken a pair of bike handlebars, a long rope and some four wheelers back into the woods, found a huge Oak tree to throw the handlebars over with the rope tied to them. They swung on these for awhile, until they realized that if thy took the free end of the rope and tied it to my son's 4-wheeler, they could swing and be raised and lowered at the same time. I rode back to where they were and watched for a little (wishing I was 12 and could have a turn!). When I got back to the house I joined my wife on the back deck for a cool drink, she asked what the boys were doing and I told her....she made the worse face you could imagine and asked if I had told them to stop...well, no it looked OK to me and she had the audacity to say "well you must be stupid!" Women!
About that time we heard a 4-wheeler racing up from the woods with what sounded like a siren on it...Cody, who might weigh 90 lbs had grabbed the handlebars and told Travis to "Hit it!", Travis hit it and Cody went up, up and over the limb and into space, he landed on his wrist breaking both bones and punched both of them through the skin!!! I yelled at my wife for a towel and away we went to the Emergency room, still don't know how fast my truck goes as the speedo stops at 100! Ah, kids. hump

 

[Mojave]

The window episode Moosie is talking about was with my daughter. She was just shy of 2 yrs old. She liked to stand at the storm door to watch the dog outside. The door had a sliding window which would raise and lower opening to a screen to let some breeze in. Well the screen decided to drop down on her little fingers like a guillotine - oh and by the way it locked into place too. Honestly this was years ago, but I am shuddering now just thinking about unlatching that window to open it again. She severed 2 fingertips. They were sewed back on, but they didn't take. Oh, and this was a hospital in the middle of nowhere (Rock Springs, WY) so they didn't give her anything to knock her out and I was the one who had to hold her down while they stitched the fingers back on. Yikes. The lucky thing was since she was so young, a lot of tissue simply regrew on her fingers so they don't look too bad now. I later found out the company which made the screen doors was supposed to recall them just for that reason. I got a settlement plus two new full glass storm doors without windows. What I really should have gotten was therapy to deal with seeing my 1 year old with her fingerstips hanging off.

I have another story about my daughter (she is my accident kid) that is more funny than horrifying like the last one. One day she walked up to me and told me Mommy I ate a money. Then she started to gag for a moment. At first I thought she was choking (later found out she was just making the noises to help illustrate what she had done ). Anyway, long story short, I had to dig through every poopy diaper for the next 2 weeks until she passed that stupid nickel.

Oooh and I've got a great one about when she shared a box of Nestle Quick powder with the dog. |oo Heck I think I have a picture of that one somewhere. I'll have to look.

Ahhh, knew I had it. You should have seen the look on that poor dog as we had to vaccuum the chocolate powder out of his coat. He was not amused.

Actually if you look really hard at that picture you can see the middle and ring finger of her left hand are much shorter than they are supposed to be. Maybe just I can see it because I'm her Mom?

 

[Wyodeerhunter]

Mojave!!! MIDDLE OF NOWHERE! I live in Rock Springs, so i guess I live in the middle of nowhere? LOL What brought you to RS? were you living here? vacation? lol.

Glad your daughter was alright, our hospital is scary, i rather drive all the way to SLC UT, its better and faster.

 

[Mojave]

Hubby was working at General Chemical.

I did drive to SLC a couple of days after this happened to see a specialist. The sewn on fingertips were looking bad. The doc in Salt Lake said, "well if they (the docs in Rock Springs) had just told you to start giving her baby aspirins, the blood would have moved better (been thinner) and she probably would have kept her fingertips". |oo Man that pissed me off! Nothing like living in the wild wild west.

 

[Nut]

Way too many things have happened for me to do details on all of them.

Let me see

swallowing poisenous mushrooms (LungBuster)
falling and hitting head hard between eyes (Lung and TE)
duct taping brother and he falls and hits head breaking end table(LN and brothers who did)
driving car while only 2 years old (LN)
pulling tooth of other brother (Lung pulled TE's)
getting attacked by dogs (LN)

I listed ER's as a dependant for years on my tax returns

 

[browtine]

I listed ER's as a dependant for years on my tax returns

ROFL!!

 

[2fastnaz]

My son likes bikes he's been on two wheels, without trainers mind you, since before his second B-day, tries to jump all kinds of stuff. When he was 5 he tried to jump a irrigation ditch. Just about ripped his nose off when the bike hit the bank and he went over the handle bars.
Last Sat. he calls me at work, says
" Dad are you gonna be mad at me"?
I asked, "do you need to go to the emergecy room"?
"No" he says.
"Cool" I say "what's up"?
"I wrecked a bike"
"You OK" says I
"yep just skinned my face" says he.
"Alright, says I "see ya when I get home"

Talk about the understatement of the year. The whole right side of his face is road rash. He was trying to bunny hop over the tounge of a high boy trailer. I asked him what he was thinking, he said "that I'd better turn my head before I hit or I'll tear up my nose again". LOL I meant before he attempted the stunt but was laughing to hard to tell him so at that point.

He looks like a leper. Then he takes an asprin and starts stressing over Rye syndrome. Man I love my kids. I just don't know where they get all these wild ideas from. LOL Kinda like Del I could write a book.

 

[Orca Lover]

Why are all of these stories about boys except Mojave's? My dad has some stories ranging from swolling silverware to driving accidents. I will tell you that I once decided to play "car" in the kitchen of our old house and stuck a pair of tweezers in the light socket. It was a shocking experience!!! I will let my dad embelish on the rest of the stuff, it will be more fun for him!!!
OL

 

[Delw]

Heres a girl story

Dani my oldest was playing with the cat in a not so nice way, April and I were busy in the garage working, Dani was suppose to be counting parts (she loved to do that).
Anyhow Dani is holding her eye and saying she was a little hurt. so We looked at it and she has a little scratch on her eyelid horizontally, I chased the cat down the street pretty pissed, it didnt look that bad.

So I had to deliver these parts and figured if it got worse I would take her to Er.
at this place I delivered teh parts to they had a christmas party and everyone wanted us to stay, the eye looked ok. then something happened at teh christmas party and she started bleeding really bad. looking at the eyelid it was ripped right through. so off to ER I went.

they worked on her immed. they brought in a plastic surgeon to sew up the eyelid.
they told Dani what they were going to do and she wouldnt feel a thing, but that she would be able to see it being done. then they have me sign this waiver yada yada yada...
they give her 100% pure coke to put on her eyelid to numb it, they didnt want to use needles do to the eye.
anyhow the needle got closer and she jumped. the doc said you have to be real still and if your still and quiet he will her a coloring book.
she let him stitch it right up , I was in shock. she never said boo never flinched or anything.
he gets all done then decides to put another one in. she had no problems.
so she is sitting there all quiet and everything listening to the doc tell me what to watch for when she is home. he said you were a good girl dani and have a nice day. shook her hand and left. he got about 20 feet and all hell broke loose. I didnt even see this coming. she was screaming bloody murder like some ripped her apart, funny thing no one was aorund except me sitting on a chair.
nurse's and the docs come running back to see whats wrong, they are holding her down and trying to look at the eye.

They ask her where it hurts she tells them it doesnt , they ask her whats wrong, her words

You promised me a coloring book and you left

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She had everyone so freaked out. the security guard went to open the gift shop to get a coloring book for her. She finally quit crying when they brought her one.

Delw

 

[Quick Draw]

Actually the silverwear swallowing episode that OL speaks of was me and it was just a spoon and I was having one of those days where I would trip and fall over everything. Well anyways I was eating in the kitchen and I fell out of the chair and down into the entry way with a spoon full of food in my mouth, nothing too serious. That's all. but I should let Lady Nutcracker post about that she remembers better than I do.
Quick Draw

 

[Mojave]

Good for Dani on that one. Good or bad don't promise a child what you don't plan to deliver.

It's important if it's a coloring book, but so help me, if I see yet another lazy bored mother tell her rampaging child "if you do that again you're going to get it" and then sit there like nothing happened when they of course do it again, I am going to LOSE IT!

 

[Delw]

Or how about the parents that take there kids out christmas shopping with them WTF?


Delw

 

[Elkhunter]

I can remember several posts put up by Del while he was watching the lil ones. They always made me be glad that I wasn't Del.