The day before yesterday we had an incident that made me get really angry. I didn't lose my top as bad as I have in the past, but I lost it pretty well.
All three of the children were upstairs playing in the 2-year-old's room. I was laying on the couch because I had been nauseous all day long ("morning" sickness). Then all of the sudden I hear a HUGE crash and screams from the two oldest.
I ran upstairs and found that the 5 and 3 year olds had climbed up the huge dresser and it had fallen over on them. This dresser is VERY heavy and under normal circumstances would not fall over. I have told the kids many, many, many, many (you get the idea) times NOT to climb it. I was in the process of emptying it so that it could be moved so most of the drawers were empty. Well, when you get almost 100 pounds of kid pulling out drawers and climbing it, it is just going to fall over.
The 5 year old had her foot caught in the bottom drawer. The dresser had fallen and landed on a rocking bear (like a rocking horse LOL) and didn't totally fall on her. The 3 year old had jumped away from the dresser as it fell. So there I was, 6.5 weeks pregnant and so nauseous and trying to hold up this huge dresser with one arm and my body and trying with the other hand to pry DDs foot from the bottom drawer.
I was mad and scared and all kinds of things and once they were both free and safe I started in on them about how I had told them over and over not to climb that dresser and now they see why. That one of them could have been seriously hurt and on and on and on..... Then I sent them both to their rooms.
Ugh.
I partly feel justified in getting upset because it really freaked me out and it was such a dangerous thing that they won't stop doing. (One of the reasons we are moving the dresser.) But then I was the one letting them play in a room where a mostly empty dresser that I knew they like to climb was located and was not attached to the wall.
Double ugh.
So there... I put myself in time out.
.......
Much better. :c)
