Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Not Edible

Last year, a Christmas ornament almost caused a hospital visit. Right after we had put up the Christmas tree, L decided to do something not very smart. We were all in the living room admiring the tree, but then it was bedtime. As we tried to corral everyone up the steps, L started jumping around doing a dance somewhat reminiscent to Michael Flatley of Riverdance.

As he was dancing about, he was singing, "Candy cane, candy cane, candy cane." We all stood there watching him entertain us, but then he horrified us as he danced his jig over to the Christmas tree and bit an ornament exactly like this one:




What followed were lots of tears and us digging shards of glass out of his mouth. They were everywhere from the roof of his mouth, to underneath his tongue. After he was cleaned up he warned his siblings, "That's not a candy cane! Don't eat them!"

What was your first clue, oh wise one?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

So... was L lucky enough to be spared from a bloodbath??? Sighhh... all my ornaments this year I've already started vacuuming up. No blood yet though.

june clever said...

There wasn't much blood, thank goodness. Although, we couldn't really tell since part of the ornament was red anyway. What a mess.