The kids who cried wolf

Over the years of parenting Bruce and I have gotten use to the fact that our kids are loud-really loud sometimes. Most of the time our kids are good, but they seem to scream and overreact a lot-I think most kids are like this. Anyway, today I was downstairs on the computer and doing laundry when I heard some screaming. I ignored it at first since it's usually isn't anything serious. Today was not the case.

The screams were coming from more than one kid and kept getting worse so I ran upstairs to investigate. Thankfully Samantha was in the backyard playing with her friend so she didn't have to witness it. Somehow in preventing Sadie from going outside Gerrit got his finger wrapped so tightly in Sadie's collar that Sadie couldn't hardly breathe. Gerrit, Aleah, and Donovan were all screaming (they absolutely love Sadie and were really scared for her) and they said Sadie's choking. It all happened so fast and it takes a bit to register, but at first I thought Sadie was choking on some toy or something. They said no it's Gerrit's finger-so then I thought she was choking on his finger. When I figured out that Gerrit's finger was stuck and wrapped around Sadie's collar I was able to cut off the collar. Sadie lost just a bit of hair and Gerrit's finger was okay, although Sadie did nip at Gerrit's other hand and drew some blood as well as Aleah's when she was trying to help before I got upstairs.

I was shaking so bad after it happened. It was a scary couple of minutes-maybe it wasn't even that long, but it was intense. I didn't want Sadie to die like that and have the kids feel responsible. Everything turned out okay and Sadie is okay. I did wonder what would have happened if I wasn't at home, but Aleah was getting ready to get the scissors when I came upstairs.