I'm just not sure who it was worse for.. Eirik or his parents.
First of all, I have to start the story by explaining that Eirik has learned baby signs for bike and car and go and open the door and outside. SOOOO.... There is no end to his requests to go play outside. He LOVES to ride bikes and this little red "4 wheeler" was no exception, until the fateful day, last week, when he got going to fast and the hill was suddenly a long awful stretch of pavement to skid his poor little cheek and shoulder and forehead and knee on.
I've never seen my husband so remorseful. He couldn't sleep that night replaying the incident over and over and over again. Luckily, no harm was done that won't quickly heal, and even today (one week later) the scabs are gone and just bruises and red road rash remain. The best part was that he didn't even cry. He just let out a long low Ouuuch.....
The following photo shows how we recreated the scene of the accident to provide "therapy" for the boys. We wanted Eirik to know that it doesn't happen every time and that he is safe to try it again having learned the lesson not to go into the grass too fast. Well, as you can see, Eirik wasn't quite ready to love the 4 wheeler again.
5 comments:
Aww how sad :( I am glad he got back up on his "horse" again :)
I love the "therapy" session. His poor little face, hopefully he won't be too scared next time!
That's so cute and so sad!
I hope that was actually therapy and not more trauma!!...
I think it's good to teach them to do it again.
and I'm sorry Paul felt so sad-
It's ok Paul, every parent scrapes their child's face on the sidewalk - ok not every parent-
but he'll be tougher for it!
Amy
Hi melody, You have a beautiful boy! I remember when Soren got his first real scrape--it was on the face too! It was sad for all of us!
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