What we say and what kids hear can be different!

We had a interesting and scary day with Harrison yesterday.

It all started Wednesday afternoon about 5:00 pm, when he came to me crying because he fell and hit his head. I quickly told him he was fine, to stop crying and go play with his sisters. (I know that is not very compassionate, but they fall and get hurt a million times a day, and I saw NO blood!) He went back to playing and I thought nothing else about it. We went to church at 6:30 pm and the nursery worker came and got me at 7:00 pm saying Harrison was not feeling well. Once I get to him he starts vomiting and saying his head hurt. So we loaded everyone up and went home where he vomited a couple of times more and then he felt fine. He slept wonderful and we just figured it was something he ate or a small stomach bug. He was playing Thursday morning and then came to me and said his head hurt and started vomiting again. Now I am concerned and called the Pediatrician who told me to bring him in immediately! By the time we get there he is feeling fine and playing around the doctor's office. Then my sweet little boy told on me!!! The doctor asked him how he hit his head and he replied, "My Mommy was on the phone and not watching. I jumped off the table backwards onto the sofa and hit my head." Thankfully the doctor is a Mom too and knows you can't watch them every second!! So after a through exam the doctor could find nothing wrong, so she suggest he go have a CT scan done just to make sure there is not something else going on with his head. When I hear this of course I panic and think of everything that could possible be wrong!! So I picked up my husband, who is also very concerned, and we drive to the Children's Hospital. On the way we are trying to explain to Harrison about how a CAT scan works. We told him at the hospital he would lay on a CAT scan and they would take pictures of his head to see what was inside. So, when we pull into the parking lot Harper, who had been listening so well to our conversation said, "Is this the hospital where we get to see Cats?" Not even putting things together I said, "no they don't have cats here, this is where they will look at Harrison's head." Harper again says, "Are they looking for cats in his head?" Then we get it and we all laughed because she thought the CAT scan would find cats in brother's head!! What we say and what kids hear can be so different and so SWEET!

The scan turned out fine and they found nothing, to our relief!! They figure he probably hit his head and it briefly gave him headaches and made him nauseous.

So the lesson learned in our house is:

DO NOT jump backwards off tables while Mommy is on the phone because it will put CATS in your head!