The experience was real, the drama was there. I wanted to hear every detail of my four-year old grandson’s recent adventures as he was relating it to me over the phone recently. It took place during the onset of this 2020 Pandemic we are all living through at the moment, and families are mostly homebound and sheltering in place, trying to find some normalcy in their day-to-day lives. In this case our daughter’s family live in and are rather confined to an upstairs, two bedroom apartment which can be quite confining anyway for a family of four with two children under the age of five. So, at the first sign of a nice spring day without rain, she had a plan.
According to the grandson’s story, he and his little sister and “mommy” went for a little outing with their bicycle and scooter. Off they went down a little sidewalk lane and he was on the scooter. He told me he fell when his scooter started “going too fast”. An injury occured. But it wasn’t time to stop or give up because he apparently didn’t deem it life-threatening, or maybe he was just having too much fun to quit. But, then he fell again. And it hurt. There were details that he was trying very hard to explain.
These injuries eventually required cleaning up and of course band-aids. The band-aids eventually came off in the bath tub and I gathered from his discription that this was almost as traumatic as the injuries themselves. It sounded to me like the drama was almost as big as the outing was fun. It was hard to decifier which was more significant as details were sketchy and we were going back and forth from the event of the falls to the trauma of the band-aids coming off.
But, when I asked him exactly were his injuries were, he was very specific with his description on this as he replied, “on the knees of my two legs!”
I love the innocence of children and a boy's perspective on trying to explain details as he sees them!
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