My son Pax has nine lives apparently but he is burning through them quickly!! The other night my daughter Jersey comes running into the living room yelling about glass crashing/breaking and how Pax is underneath it and can't get out. She says I need to come quick so my husband and I go running into the master bedroom and find him on top of a bunch of pillows they had taken off our bed and the large peice of framed artwork that was on top of my night stand is basically on his back broken to bits!!! He's screaming about being stuck and asking for help so I run over and get the frame off of him and to my amazement he only has this small scratch on his back. He's not even bleeding from it!!!! There is glass EVERYWHERE and the shards are big and look like daggers. I am so surprised that he didn't impale himself with one. So my husband cleaned up all the glass and I vaccumed up the rest and put the picture back on the nightstand sans glass(probably should have done that from the start). I would love to say this is the only close call we have had with him but unfortunately I cannot.
About a month ago during the middle of the day, the kids were in our bedroom watching a movie and Jersey had fallen asleep on our bed. I am in the living room doing something (can't remember what now) and I hear this weird sort of noise from the back. It was loud enough for me to hear up front so I think I better go see what it is. I immediately hear Pax screaming afterward so I head to the back. He's a screamer anyway so I'm thinking it's not going to be much. As I am walking down the long hall to my bedroom I don't see anything so far. As I enter the bedroom though and turn the corner I see Jersey sound asleep on the bed(can't believe she was sleeping through this) and then I see it. Pax is at the foot of our platform bed, sitting on the platform part and he is pinned down by our dresser! Now this isn't a small dresser. This is a full on, full size six foot dresser that weighs like ten dead guys!!!! He has managed to bring the entire thing down on top of himself! When I think back on it now I don't remember exactly how I got to that side of the bed because clearly I had to have jumped across the bed but I have no recollection of it. I had to lift the dresser off of him and of course all the drawers were open by now and weighing it down in the front. He slips out form under it unscathed! Meanwhile I am developing a hernia trying to hold this dresser up. I manage to close all the drawers and try to get it back straight and cannot, something is underneath it in the back, so I have to come around to the edge and look behind it. Meanwhile he is happily jumping up and down on the bed singing some song I can't make out. I ask him not so politely to "can it", I'm in the middle of a stressful situation!!! As I tilt it forward to see the obstruction, the drawers fall out again and the hernia is yet again nipping at my heels! I see that somehow the AT&T Uverse box is wedged underneath the back of the dresser. Great!! How am I supposed to get this thing out of there?! So holding the dresser with my left arm, I reach around behind and pull out the box but by now the dresser just doesn't sit right on the carpet. It looks like with a slight tug, it will fall forward again. So I tell Pax to come to the living room and watch TV. Miraculously Jersey has slept through this entire ordeal!! When Pete got home later that night, he wedged some pieces of wood underneatht the front of the dresser so it is now actually tilted back slightly, which makes some of the heavier drawers harder to open and it looks really classy too! It goes well with the numerous extension cords in the house and the crayon/marker drawing on the walls in every room of this poor house. So if you are wondering, the glass breaking was life number three. Number one being when he climbed on the kitchen bar, fell off onto the floor and the whole left side of his face immediately began to swell and gave him a black eye. After a trip to the ER and a $2000 cat scan, all was well and no permanent damage was done!
So what will be the attempt on Life Number Four? I am scared to find out but I am sure it will happen and at the rate he is going, probably pretty soon. Lord give me the strength to hold it together. I am just glad I only have one boy. I heard someone say there is a special place in heaven for moms with only boys and I can definitely say, it is a completely different experience! Those women should be nominated for sainthood....and then committed for a while probably! ha ha
Well until the next blog....I think Pax peed in the bath salts again last night, so we will talk about that craziness later! ha ha
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