Liam the super genius has lately been Mr. Helpful in the kitchen. As soon as you start doing anything, he is pushing over a chair, standing beside you and demanding to help. Normally we give him a plastic knife and a piece of bread to cut up, or he pushes his little pots around the stove.
On Saturday though, his helpfulness brought on some trouble. I was making some delicious chili for dinner (yum yum) and Liam had helped by cutting up some peppers and pushing around his little pots. I took the chili pot off the burner and then Liam loudly declared "HOT HOT" and slapped his hand down on the burner.
Needless to say, this was followed by intense screams of pain and panic. After some calming words and running of the hand under cool water, we bundled up and drove over to the hospital.
The cooking genius has second degree burns on all his fingers and thumb. It was not actually that bad, his palm was not burned at all and the blisters all remained closed and it appears uninfected.
They bandaged him up and put lots of cream on the burns gave him a painkiller and sent us home. He quickly got over the shock and can now only proudly talk about his "mitten" I think that he probably sees the overall experience as awesome, since he got to have ice cream for dinner, and stay up late on mummy's lap watching as much TV as he wanted.
Here are the images of the tiny chef:
Close up of the mitten...
Liam staying up late showing off his wounded paw.
Left handed toast for breakfast.
Train playing is still very possible
4 comments:
Poor guy! Hopefully all will be healed for the trip to Toronto.
He will be fine by then. He is already in pretty much full party mode.
Poor little guy! Thankfully it wasn't as serious as it could have been.
After some close calls we now ban our kids from the kitchen during cooking time. "Get outta the kitchen!" can be heard at our place every evening. At least until they're older...
Poor little Liam. He probably does not want to cook any more.
Bernhard also burnt his hand when he was little.
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