The Miracle of the Hand-Me-Down Shorts

First, a little background...a few weeks ago, I pulled out all my kids' summer clothes. I hadn't bought any shorts yet for Aiden, so I went to my box of Connor's old 3T clothes & pulled out a pair. The shorts were pretty long on Connor's short little legs back in the day. Because of this, Connor had worn a little hole in the knee. "Oh well," I thought. "These will do until I make an Old Navy run & buy Aiden some of his own."

Okay, fast forward to a few days ago...I was busily cleaning my kitchen. Cohen was sitting in his high chair playing with toys, Connor was off playing at a friend's house, & Aiden was playing in his room...or so I thought. From a distance, I heard my little Aiden's voice say, "Mom...Mom...come help me! I'm stuck!"

"Oh!" I thought, "What has he gotten himself into this time?"

I walked back to Aiden's room...but it was empty. "Aiden, where are you?" I asked.

"I'm in Cohen's room!" came the reply, "Hurry! I'm stuck...upside down!!!"

"What?!?" I thought. "Upside down?"

I hurried into Cohen's room & THIS is what I found...

Yes, that's right...the once little hole in the knee had now become a HUGE hole in the knee and was stuck on the nob of the top drawer!!! What in the world?!? I still to this day do not know how Aiden got himself in this situation. Every time I ask him about it, he just says, "I don't know...". All I've been able to gather (from deductive reasoning) is that he must have climbed up there for some reason & fell...only to be saved by that little hole in the knee of those shorts. Who knows? Maybe if that hole hadn't caught on that nob, he would have fallen & broken an arm, a leg, or worse...his neck. You never know, so I'm counting it as a blessing! That is why we are now calling this incident "The Miracle of the Hand-Me-Down Shorts". Oh my crazy Aiden! What am I going to do with you? I swear you are the child with 9 lives...but the scary part is that I think you've already used up at least 3 or 4 of those lives already! Sigh...

**Disclaimer...before you think I'm a TOTALLY horrible mother that takes pictures of her kids in dangerous situations--all in the name of her blog--this picture was actually taken several hours after the above-mentioned incident. I, of course, pulled him off the nob right away & tried to figure out what had happened. But, as I thought about it throughout the day, I decided this was a story that MUST be blogged. But, I knew it would be much more enjoyable if you could actually SEE what I saw when I walked into that room. So, when Mike came home that evening, we "re-created" the scene to take a picture. What? It's all in the name of the blog...all in the name of the blog! --Lindsay

p.s. Aiden is now the the proud owner of a pair of new shorts.