We love birthday candles! It was Dad's birthday last week (as in my husband, not my father) and we made a cake with peanut butter frosting and lit candles and sang.
After that, every day Miriam wanted to light the candles in the left over cake AGAIN and AGAIN. We would do it maybe once a day.
2 days ago, she caught herself on fire and cured herself on the desire.
It was quite simple. I was kneeling down holding the cake with 3 lit candles. She was trying to blow then out and not getting it. So she leaned in/I said get back(hands holding cake remember?)/her hair lit on fire. In the next instant I - feel immediate panic while setting down cake/hair flares a tiny bit(more panic)/I reach out and extinguish the fire. Really quite quick and just small bit of damage to her hair (I was slightly concerned about her eyes, but seemed to be fine).
She pointed at me and said, "Mommy blow out candles?" as in - Mom, YOU blow out the candles now. No more cake candles. Worse than when she was one and we were singing to her and all of a sudden she reached out and pinched the flame on her one candle out before anyone could stop her. Once I get my pictures back I'll have to put that picture up for y'all.
So I have to chuckle a little because Gideon did the same thing a couple of weeks ago. He found a lighter and wanted me to light it so he could blow it out. This happened a few times and then he asked of he could hold it. Didn't think anything of it because it was suppose to be child proof. Next thing I see he has the lighter to his face and there is a FLASH. He drops the lighter and looks at me with huge eyes and i notice that his eyebrows and eyelashes are singed on one side. Scared him half to death. He doesn't play with lighters anymore.
ReplyDeleteYikes! This summer Clara burned her hands in a very simple firecamp accident--she was sitting on my lap, eating raw marshmallows, I told her to stand up so I could tie her shoes, she stumbled on the gravel around the fire and down she went, on her hands. I freaked out and in a second I pictured her arm catching fire, or her hair, or her face. We were pretty lucky, because she only burned her hands, but still--Something much worse flashed through my mind in those two seconds that everything happened.
ReplyDeleteTOTALLY "UNFUN."