Double Trouble

During our lives there are moments that we wish we could take the pain away from our children so they do not have to suffer. Yesterday was one of those days for me. The weather was nice and warm so we packed up in the mini van and zoomed over to the local park, which has a water works area. Samuel and Andy enjoyed the water works for about 5 to 10 minutes then Andy ran over to the actual playground.

In today's society everything has to be safety oriented no matter how unsafe it is. Well at the playground instead of having dirt, or even rocks (like when I was a kid :o) they have the blue rubber squares with holes in them that is a little bouncy. This is so when the kids fall off of the playground equipment that has huge walls on it so they cannot fall off. Well because of how the soft squares are designed it also traps in hot air and the squares become extremely hot.

Andy zoomed over to the playground and as soon as he got on these squares he took just a few steps and s tarted screaming and running back crying. I just assumed that it was hot and it scared him so I went over there with him just to find out it was way too hot. The rubber itself was not so much hot but when it depressed down with the steps the holes in it became extremely painful.

I kept kissing his feet better and even put his crocks on so he could continue to play but he just stayed at the bench with me and cried. Finally after about 20 minutes of not being able to settle him down I looked at his feet again because they were still red and he had 7 blisters on them. He cried so much that he ended up crying himself to sleep in the car home.

Well that afternoon while GeGe called to talk with Andy to see how he was doing and Samuel was pretty upset because she did not want to talk to him right off. Well when we got of the phone with her Samuel was in the kitchen and I yelled from the living room "Samuel, what are you doing." Which then all you could hear was some quick rustling of stuff and then a long pause with a big breath. To find out he was playing with the coffee maker, who knows why because he would not give me a reason, and he had turned on the heat pad and just grabbed the bottom to push it back when I yelled. He managed to burn 2 fingers and put huge blisters on them. He cried and cried and no matter what I did it would hot help. After 20 minutes of crying he finally took my advise and went to lay down.

So I went and joined him to hold him and sing to him when Asher started to cry in the kitchen which Samuel said in a broken voice, "Daddy, go take care of Asher ok." Even in his pain he is a caring brother always watching out for the other two. After feeding him I went back and held Samuel again while crying and started blowing on his fingers which took away the pain just enough that Samuel fell asleep.

I personally think he burned his hand on purpose so he could talk with GeGe more. :o) I remember how much it hurts to burn your hands and get blisters and in moments like these wish the pain could belong to me. They rely on me for kissed to take away the pain for everything else but these kisses just make them hurt more.