Playing With Your Kids Can Be Dangerous

Also called…It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye. Though no one actually lost an eye. So, that’s something.

In March, at the second-to-last AWANA store, my son had saved up his bucks and was able to purchase this:

I try very hard to just let him spend those bucks the way he wants because, well, he earned them. He works hard on his verses and really, the stuff they have in the store is pretty cool. He was over the moon about the above and, with a promise that he wouldn’t shoot it at his brother or anything fragile in the house I somewhat grudgingly smiled and said “Cool.”

Well, it turns out that he’s not strong enough to do much damage, even if they accidentally hit you. This is a good thing. And so, he’s been aiming the suction cup arrows at me and the hubby and we’ve been rolling with it somewhat. So on Monday, the suction cup arrow bounced off my shoulder. Thinking to be amusing, I took it and suctioned it to my forehead and enacted a very dramatic death scene. This was a big hit.

So then, to amuse the smaller one, I left the arrow there and pretended to be a unicorn. And then a narwhal (because I was informed by the older that unicorns were imaginary but the narwhal was real and much cooler.) This went on for a few minutes before the older one wanted his arrow back. So I popped it off and went to start fixing supper. My husband walked by and shook his head.

“What?”

“You’ve got a circle on your forehead.”

“Yeah, the suction cup probably wiped off my makeup.”

He frowned, shrugged, and walked off.

It wasn’t until much later that I happened by a mirror and discovered that, no, the suction cup had not wiped off my makeup. It had, in fact, made a fifty-cent-piece-sized purple hickey directly in the middle of my forehead.

And that’s what I get for trying to goof around with the kiddos. (I did discover that an extra layer of foundation hides it pretty well, so at least I’m not walking around looking like I had a failed trepanation attempt.)