I was sitting out on the swing reading a magazine while the girls played
on their swing set just feet from me. I look up and Lilah is sitting
like tweedy bird on the swinging bar. I had no idea how the heck she
got up there and would have never in a million years thought that she
could do that yet. Not even Emmy had figured out how to do that. I
asked her to show me how she got up there and she did and I was floored!
She'd grab onto the handles of the swing bar and then use her legs to
climb up onto the trampoline's jumping handle and then stand
up...pulling the swing bar close to her and putting one leg over it and
then as it made a huge swing out she'd bring through the other leg!! I
know this was the first time she has gotten up there like that because
she couldn't get down. I had a big talking with her and while I was
doing that Emmy flipped upside down and hooked her legs over the bar and
let go and was dangling upside down.
I know I should let them be kids and not worry about bruises or bumps
but I am worried that if she slips and falls on her neck wrong that she
could have major damage and injury. 2 & 3 years old is a bit young
for gymnastic tricks, or maybe this means I need to get them into
gymnastic classes? I couldn't get the bar to come down so I wrapped it
tightly around and now it's too high that they can't reach it.
Now this brings me to Lilah's knot on the side of her head and her
purple/swallow ear. With not having the swing bar to swing on she was
standing on the small trampoline and grabbing onto the swing and jumping
off and kinda doing a tarzan swing. Her hands slipped and down she
went. I felt so bad. That fall was from only 2 feet off the ground and if
that looks this bad I don't even want to know what it would have been if she fell
off the swing bar 5 feet off the ground! uughhh!
-----------------------------UPDATE------------------------------
I can't believe how bad it looked for a couple days! It's almost back to looking normal now, and just has a small bruise on the very top where the blue/purple bit was.
