The girls wave at everyone when they leave our house. Yesterday we we were waving at Jody and Emma spotted a metal rod (a piece of our windchime outside)on the porch, she went outside and got it and I put it up high on a bookshelf until I could take a look and try to fix the windchime. I had to go run errands later on yesterday to the grocery store & bank. I was in our bedroom changing clothes (back of the house) and I heard this noise, can't describe it, I knew it was bad and I came running. I met Anna halfway down the hall whining/crying about her hand. I asked to look at it and what happened and she said "no", generally she only lets daddy check out her boo-boos really closely. Emma came around the corner and said there was smoke and something about a lamp. Evidentally Anna shoved the metal rod (she climbed on top of the bookcase to retrieve it) into the socket of one of our lamps (all while I was changing my clothes). This lamp has 2 places for light bulbs and one of the lightbulbs blew out the night before. I took it out, went to get another one, which we didn't have, and thought I would just buy more lightbulbs the next time I was out. Not thinking I was leaving an exposed socket for someone to stick something in, the lamp is high enough that Lizzy can't reach it. When I heard the story I went looking for the metal rod, I found a very hot melted blackish rod, "powder" all around the lamp, and my tablecloth had small burn holes in it, she is very lucky she didn't get hurt any worse.
I called Jody immediately because she wouldn't let me look at her hand and I thought for sure looking at the rod that we were going to take a trip to the ER. But after some coaxing she let me take a look, she has a small burn on her hand, I gave her an ice pack immediately and she held it on there until it was completely melted. Talk about scary...I was very upset realizing the magnitude of what could have happened to her and I was in tears. We have talked with the girls a lot about electrical sockets, outlets and turning lamps/lightswitches on and off, but in this case Anna said she didn't touch anything or do anything that she wasn't supposed to and she was right (technically)...they always find a way to get around what you say, even at 2 years old! I'm positive she learned her lesson and positve this will never happen again!!!
I called Jody immediately because she wouldn't let me look at her hand and I thought for sure looking at the rod that we were going to take a trip to the ER. But after some coaxing she let me take a look, she has a small burn on her hand, I gave her an ice pack immediately and she held it on there until it was completely melted. Talk about scary...I was very upset realizing the magnitude of what could have happened to her and I was in tears. We have talked with the girls a lot about electrical sockets, outlets and turning lamps/lightswitches on and off, but in this case Anna said she didn't touch anything or do anything that she wasn't supposed to and she was right (technically)...they always find a way to get around what you say, even at 2 years old! I'm positive she learned her lesson and positve this will never happen again!!!*****************************************************************
I just wanted to add to my previos post that Anna is completely fine, she has a very small red mark on the palm of her hand, but nothing else, I didn't want to worry everyone!!!
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Oh no! How scary:) Glad everyone is okay!
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