We have a thing in our freezer that we call "Strawberry Shortcake ice". It's an icepack in a little pocket shaped like the Strawberry Shortcake cartoon character. Whenever Allison gets hurt, we usually apply some ice and the hurt goes away.
The other night, we were going through the bedtime routine, and I was taking Allison to the bathroom. Bedtime can be a difficult transition for Allison, frequently taking 30 or 40 minutes of bargaining (her, not us) and so forth to quiet down and get in bed.
She's already said goodnight to Mommy, who was out in the front room, probably a few sips into an adult beverage. As it was bedtime, and I was really trying to limit her exposure to only her room and the bathroom, lest she run off and get distracted and I'd have to wrangle her back again. With her pants off and climbing on the pot, she slipped a little and scraped her leg on her step. Nothing serious at all, but the non-stick rubber on the step probably pulled at her leg hairs a little. She cried, and called for Strawberry Shortcake ice.
After initially reassuring Allison, I kind of froze, weighing my options. Here was a child, hitherto moments away from peeing, with a painful but otherwise trivial injury. I could try to get her on the toilet, and leave her there while I went and got the ice, but she was unhappy enough that she wasn't ready to sit still. I could carry her out to the front room, but Diana was out there watching TV. It would distract her from her owie, but getting her back to her room could be difficult. I could call for Diana to get the ice, but after saying goodnight to her with some finality, I didn't want to bring her back into the picture. All of these thoughts ran through my head in the space of a couple seconds.
At that moment, I heard a scraping sound behind me. There, shoved under the door by some mysterious force, was the Strawberry Shortcake ice.
My wife is awesome.
2 comments:
This is probably the most awesome post ever.
From my observations, parenthood is totally a war in which the allies (parents) have to work against an adversary who is at a distinct strategic disadvantage...and yet the allies take considerable casualties nightly because the adversary doesn't follow the Geneva Conventions.
In other words, parenthood is the US invading Iraq.
Gwen
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