a few weeks ago we went to a garage sale and met a home-schooling family. their kids are mostly grown but they are still active in the home-schooling community which i think might be synonymous with deeply religious community. anyway, they stopped by and invited us to a bonfire. it was nice. tristan went crazy finally being let loose with some kids. the little boy ignored tristan and wouldn't reply when tristan introduced himself. tristan didn't understand "daddy he won't hear me." i guess a six year old whom is approached by a younger kid is supposed to be aloof. anyway, after a while they were getting along famously. but as good things go, they all must end. while the other kids were topping out on energy level tristan was just getting warmed up. having months of still pent up energy to be released. then it happened....
stepping back a bit. i had to drive home, a short drive, to put up the chickens that were in mortal peril from the local fox family. i returned 5 to 7 minutes later and tristan had fallen into the fire and burned his hand. he was in the bathroom playing with ice in the sink. basically icing the burn area. then after a bit he wanted to go back out and play on the trampoline. he was acting very frantic and being quite rude. this went on for 20 minutes or so. we decided to leave. he started crying and wanted may-may (to nurse). tabitha refused not sure of the extended breast feeding climate. we got home and inspected his hand. maybe 15% of his hands total surface area was blistered or broken blisters. he was obviously in extreme pain and we were out of "blue vitamins" children’s ibuprofen. tabitha got out her fancy pill splitter and fabricated him a 55 milligram pill. he gobbled it up without hesitation (never happened before). he was shaking his hand and shivering and screaming. i put his hand in a dish of cold water and he kinda relaxed. he would fall into sleep and promptly wake when his hand would move out of the water. this went on for a while. finally, he fell into a deep enough sleep that when his hand came out of the water he didn't wake.
whew, he hasn't woken up yet so we'll see how things go this morning.
on a brighter note they also had a child kassi's age. he wasn't walking yet though. that seems weird to me since kassi has been walking longer than half her life already.
but the brightest note is that we have found a bulk food drop-point-group. they all are part of this illusive group that tabitha has been trying to contact since our arrival. sneaking in through the back door.
but the biggest question is: will they continue to be our friends if we don't attend their religious organization?
wasn't it Groucho Marx who said something like "I don't want to be part of any group that would have me as a member?"
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I'm sorry to read about your son's accident. Although, it sounds like something good came from the experience and that is the bulk food situation. My son isn't walking yet either and he is 14 months old, so don't think it's too weird. Your Kassi is just advanced. :o) That's a little friendlier way of looking at it, atleast from my angle.
oops, sorry i didn't mean it in a smug way. although i am extremely proud of both my children. i meant in a different way from what i know. i wouldn't wish the early walking torture on any child- kassi had huge bruises on both her butt cheeks and general bumps and scrapes beyond any amount that any child of any age should experience.
she now has very little regard for heights and dangerous obstacles because she has learned a life with a bit of continual pain from the overwhelming amount of owies that are a daily event around here.
i know that all children are different especially seeing the differences between our children. kassi is physically advanced but is just now talking whereas tristan already was talking for months at this age.
i hope tristan is feeling better today. poor thing. burns are such a horrible owie to begin with and for a toddler to get them just sucks.
jaden just started walking around 14 months...i'm so glad she waited...she got so many bumps and bruises on her face just from her first 2 weeks of walking. i can't imagine what kassi looked like when she started!
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