Three Falls
At the family reunion in Kentucky Sonya took a few falls. None were serious and she has only a single bruise on one knee.
We arrived late Friday afternoon and went swimming with other relatives at the hotel pool. I took a nephew out for a little swim. I saw a bunch of the kids playing on the steps as I left. I came back to hear Sonya crying and my sister telling me to look at the back of her head. Not a good moment. I heard she tried copying the older children who hung from a bar at the steps, but her wet hands slipped. Lisa saw it all and said that her torso broke the fall. A short while later we got her back in the pool and I took her for a swim, so we knew that she was fine.
Saturday morning we went to the Keeneland racetrack as a group, ate breakfast, and watched some horses trot around the track. There were very few other people there, but one had a large dog that was not leashed. The children, of course, wanted to pet it and the dog was happy to meet them. Sonya and I walked up, but she got skittish. I turned to Lisa and warned my wife that if Sonya ran she could get hurt. I turned around to see mu daughter afraid and running. The dog pursued (tail wagging) and I trailed them. Sonya fell down, the dog circled her and nosed her back once playfully, I swept my arms to get it back and scooped her up. I had to pull her above my head because the dog lept on it's hindlegs to my shoulder. It's tail was still wagging and I noticed that it did not leap as high as it could nor did it mind my presence at all. However, I also realized it's large size in that moment. By then the owner came running up to corral her dog and apologized several times over. Sonya only suffered a skinned knee and a fear, which she would have had had the animal pursued her or not, but she gained a story she repearted several times over to different people for the next few days.
Sunday we visited the Kentucky Horse Park in a smaller group that contained all the children. There were many horses and as beautiful as they were I could not help but feel very small compared to their immense sizes. We could pet most and there were not too many handlers about. I knew that if something bad happened I would be helpless and our experience with the dog made me leery. Throughout our time there I felt overprotective and made sure that Sonya was well removed from anything at all dangerous. After we left we stopped for a snack from a gas station. When we left Lisa hit Sonya in the head with the car door. An entire day of precautions went out the window and our daughter was again in tears.
I would not have been at all surprised had Sonya received some injury from one of the other children, they were all larger and mostly older, and Sonya could easily get run over. Instead, her falls came at her own hands, her own misstep, and our own car door.
We arrived late Friday afternoon and went swimming with other relatives at the hotel pool. I took a nephew out for a little swim. I saw a bunch of the kids playing on the steps as I left. I came back to hear Sonya crying and my sister telling me to look at the back of her head. Not a good moment. I heard she tried copying the older children who hung from a bar at the steps, but her wet hands slipped. Lisa saw it all and said that her torso broke the fall. A short while later we got her back in the pool and I took her for a swim, so we knew that she was fine.
Saturday morning we went to the Keeneland racetrack as a group, ate breakfast, and watched some horses trot around the track. There were very few other people there, but one had a large dog that was not leashed. The children, of course, wanted to pet it and the dog was happy to meet them. Sonya and I walked up, but she got skittish. I turned to Lisa and warned my wife that if Sonya ran she could get hurt. I turned around to see mu daughter afraid and running. The dog pursued (tail wagging) and I trailed them. Sonya fell down, the dog circled her and nosed her back once playfully, I swept my arms to get it back and scooped her up. I had to pull her above my head because the dog lept on it's hindlegs to my shoulder. It's tail was still wagging and I noticed that it did not leap as high as it could nor did it mind my presence at all. However, I also realized it's large size in that moment. By then the owner came running up to corral her dog and apologized several times over. Sonya only suffered a skinned knee and a fear, which she would have had had the animal pursued her or not, but she gained a story she repearted several times over to different people for the next few days.
Sunday we visited the Kentucky Horse Park in a smaller group that contained all the children. There were many horses and as beautiful as they were I could not help but feel very small compared to their immense sizes. We could pet most and there were not too many handlers about. I knew that if something bad happened I would be helpless and our experience with the dog made me leery. Throughout our time there I felt overprotective and made sure that Sonya was well removed from anything at all dangerous. After we left we stopped for a snack from a gas station. When we left Lisa hit Sonya in the head with the car door. An entire day of precautions went out the window and our daughter was again in tears.
I would not have been at all surprised had Sonya received some injury from one of the other children, they were all larger and mostly older, and Sonya could easily get run over. Instead, her falls came at her own hands, her own misstep, and our own car door.
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It's a good thing kids are designed to bounce :-)
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