free falling
are child models kept in bubble wrap except when they are on a shoot?
i don’t understand how child models have such scar free faces. remember when mary kate and ashley olsen were five years old and it was okay that they weighed 50 pounds? their pale little faces showed no residue from a scrap, fall, scrape or fight.
sebastian has a variety of marks all over his hands, arms, legs and face. a thin white line on his forehead reminds us of the time his dad was washing the car, left a door open, sebastian scrambled in and then fell out. at least he kept his teeth. there is scar on his cheek from a fight with a friend. a toothmark from hubie on his upper arm. and he’s not even four.
how can these gap and polo kids be so mark free? maybe they have better parents than mine do.
stop rolling your eyes…read on.
today team caldwell went to the grocery store. it was typhoon three but nothing too serious. jasper rode in magnificent’s trolley, and i got the other three, sela belted in and sebastian and carys in the trolley bit.
all was going fairly well, i was singing the train song and doing a quite good job of it when i heard a scream. a justified scream. because carys was falling out of the cart.
she banged her head on the chilled metal counter that holds the yogurt and then crack, landed head first on the concrete floor. everyone screamed, carys loudest of all. i was so relieved. i picked her up and she screamed for about one minute while i bounced her up and down, checked her ears for blood, her pupils, her head for any cracks and indications of blood gathering under the skull, and her vision. after a minute of frantically singing her latest favourite song, the grand old duke of york, she stopped crying.
needless to say, the observers (and there were plenty of them) had plenty to say. some comments were supportive "she’s a trooper!" (true) others were, "poor little baby" (also true).
last week sela fell. what made me think that with sela being belted in that my kids would be out of the free fall zone?
i have injured my kids before. falling off sofas and landing on the corner of teak coffee tables, falling off change tables (not on my shift, but still), lifting up sebastian to put him into the baby bjorn and cracking his head on the ceiling….but this was preventable. i had PRECEDENCE. could have prevented it and didn’t.
so now i am worried that carys is going to have epilepsy and it will be my fault. not that i gave it to her genetically, but that i let go of her and she cracked her head open. hey, that’s how i got it, why shouldn’t it happen to my little girl? NOT PLEASED.
