Crime and Punishment

The Situation:

It was a cold and blustery March afternoon. Too cold to spend much time outside and too small a home to be anything more than boring for a certain 3 1/2 year old sweetie. "Mom," she said, " Let's play a game." And so a mild and friendly game of hide-n-go-seek insured. Meanwhile, the Father of the family arrived home bushed from a hard day's work and joined Team-Sugar in seeking out SUPERB small spaces for such a sneaky lil' sis to stay. With Mom still in the bathroom counting (all the way to 20) our little hider slipped and obtained one seriously sore eye..... may it please the court to be presented with the 1st item of evidence:

The Perpetrator:

As you can clearly observe the corner of this handy, but harmful piece of home furnishings is designed perfectly to inflict such injury as to cause increased discomfort and bruising to one such princess should a collision between said furnishings and poor child occur. Although through no fault of his own, we find the night-stand involved in such tragic endeavors. Enter evidence #2

The Victim...

As you can clearly see, point of impact would have occurred in this incident just inches below the eye, leaving a C-shaped curve matching up exactly to the c-shape curve found on all four corners of this aggressive attacker.

The Conclusion:

So it is to you, Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, what is to become of this assailant? It is recommended by the victim's father that the furniture be destroyed, cut into small unrecognizable pieces or given to charity with a disclaimer indicating it's potential for harm. But let's not jump to such rash decisions before review of the Victim's disposition after a few "kiss-it-better"s and a popsicle:

The Result:

Yup.... She's still smiling!!! Granted it took at least 5 minutes of good holding and sobbing to get to a calmer place. And the next day her under eye was a much darker purple, in the end she's alright, and cheesing it for the camera.

So after a little time spent deliberating on my part, here are a few of my own finding:

#1. Leslie needs to lay off the John Grisham novels until her normal speech returns.

#2. It's a great quality kids posses to be able to bounce back after any injury.

#3. Daddies who have beautiful and perfect little daughter (which, by the way all dad's know that his daughters are just that) tend to lean a little extreme when it comes to anything that could cause hurt to their little girls. No doubt in our case, when the boys start to come around and cause a little heart break to this girl, her daddy's reaction will be no different then his feeling for the nightstand..... let's destroy the boy, make a pile of unrecognizable pieces!! Ha ha

Bless those great dads and all those little girls who own their hearts!