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Wednesday, August 29, 2007

My daughter is the cutest wuss there ever was

My daughter is absolutely adorable. If you don't believe me, just check out her picture on the side there and you will see how cute she is.

99.9% of the time, she is an angel. Truly, I could not have asked for a better child. She is kind, compassionate, innocent, obedient (incredibly obedient), very intelligent, and so much more. Her one downfall? She's a wuss. Yes indeed, a wimp.

At least four times yesterday she wailed like her arm had been cut off. The big alligator tears would fall and she would come running to me for comfort. The problem? She had fallen off the couch and bonked her knee. She was upset about the itsy bitsy teeny weeny little scratch that you can only see by squinting your eyes.

Today, we had an end of summer pool party at a friends house. They have a play area with cedar chips (the ones that don't give you slivers...supposedly). Later at home, she started complaining that her feet hurt. Upon inspection, she had a couple of slivers. However, the inspection was all that we were able to do. As soon as we said she had a sliver, she yanks her foot away and dramatically pleads "Don't pull it. Don't touch it. It's going to hurt!" It hasn't hurt yet, it's the fear of the hurt that had her freaking out.

We literally had to hold her down for us to be able to even look at them any more. We never did get them out, even after the threat of the slivers feastering, associated infection, puss that would hurt to get out, you know... the gorey stuff. Finally, we agreed on a plan... Do it in the night while she is asleep. So, now I am off to try to pull out the slivers.

:)

3 comments:

Jenn said...

Oh, no, that's so sad. I remember when my little one (2 or 3 at the time) got slivers in her feet from running on the deck barefoot. I hate those times when you have to hold your child down and inflict pain on them. Or give them eye drops. We just got through a bout of pinkeye by the skin of our teeth. I hope the slivers came out all right in the end.

J. said...

She is such a WUSS! The hardest thing was not laughing at the melodrama. Still, she is the cutest, sweetest little girl ever.

Heather Moore said...

Slivers are very traumatic. I have 3 girls. Two of them are practically tom boys, but if they get a sliver . . . you'd think I was trying to cut their feet off.