Gearhead Mom

Friday, November 09, 2007

Please Nominate Me for Mother of the Year. Not.

Posted by Missy W. @ 8:59 AM

So yesterday after playgroup, Sy was “helping” me open the sliding door of the minivan. Yes, I own a minivan. I’m not proud. Please don’t tell anyone how much I love it.

Anyway, she threw a two year old hissy fit about wanting to open it ALL BY OWN. So I was fumbling for the keys to click the sliding door open again, holding onto my purse and closing my cell phone all at the same time. At that exact moment Julie, our fabulous playgroup leader, yells HAND, HAND, HER HAND! I looked over in complete horror, that awful lump in my stomach sliding into place, to see my poor wee one’s little paw getting smashed by the sliding door. Luckily all I had to do was click to make it open again, I am quite surprised I had the presence of mind to do even that. I ran over and grabbed her and looked at her hand. Four tiny little fingers had big mean, red indentations in them and the skin torn off a few knuckles. Nothing was broken, but let’s be clear, she was reaaaaaaaaaaally upset. We ran her back up to my friend’s house and hollered for ice. Andie brought out a regular ice pack and once the howls of angst settled down into a moan, she busted out her son’s Hug & Heal bunny. I’d never seen this thing before and I am so going out and getting one. It’s a little plush bunny with a velcro opening on the side where you slide a mini ice pack into place.

The bunny’s tummy gets nice and cool, but not too cold to touch. Sy clutched onto her lovie with one hand and the bunny with the other. I made a little sandwich of her hand, putting the bunny underneath and an ice pack on the top. This is the first time she’s really understood that an ice pack will help the owie feel better. I think six months ago she would have hurled the bunny along with the ice pack at me with endless toddler fury. She wanted to hang out with the bunny after her fingers stopped hurting and even wanted it (with ice pack in belly) to sleep next to her during nap. When she woke up and remembered her injury, she yelled for ice and “boo boo bunny”, asking me “how’s this works?” I showed her how I could take the ice pack out to help her hand feel better. So now she’s walking around the house with her lovie, the bunny and the ice pack. Such a drama queen.

Snapshot:
• I can only seem to find the bunny online at Babies R Us. I’ve never seen it in a store before.
• Andie said she got it as a shower gift, what a great idea!
• The ice pack is a little circle that is refreezable and fairly easy to put into the pouch.
• The bunny itself is small, which means it’s easy for little hurt hands to hold, and it’s thankfully machine washable (not the ice pack).

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