The First-Aid Kit
Our rescue-centric son discovered the first-aid kit in the trunk of my car about a week ago and asked me several questions about it for two days afterward. What was inside? Why didn't we keep it in the house? How could someone get hurt while we were in the car?
Soon, he had fashioned his own first-aid kit. He emptied the crayons and colored pencils out of the blue plastic case formerly known as his art set to make room for the things he figured he'd need in case of bodily harm: scissors, Scotch tape, Elmer's glue (two bottles so that he'd "have a back-up").
He has been keeping his first-aid kit in his "fire boat," a cardboard box in which grandma mailed some things earlier in the week. The box now has a ribbon glued to one of the top flaps which can be used as a lifeline to retrieve unfortunate souls from the water.
While the fire boat is too unwieldy to take in the car (we did, however, take it outside earlier this afternoon), the first-aid kit is, by its very nature, portable, so that's been going with us everywhere. It even sat with our towels alongside the kiddie pool at the Y today when we swam with the preschool class.
Apparently the Scotch tape in the kit is for the repair of small wounds and the glue is for larger ones. Given the crude techniques likely to be used on me should I spill any blood, I've been avoiding injury at all costs the last several days.
Soon, he had fashioned his own first-aid kit. He emptied the crayons and colored pencils out of the blue plastic case formerly known as his art set to make room for the things he figured he'd need in case of bodily harm: scissors, Scotch tape, Elmer's glue (two bottles so that he'd "have a back-up").
He has been keeping his first-aid kit in his "fire boat," a cardboard box in which grandma mailed some things earlier in the week. The box now has a ribbon glued to one of the top flaps which can be used as a lifeline to retrieve unfortunate souls from the water.
While the fire boat is too unwieldy to take in the car (we did, however, take it outside earlier this afternoon), the first-aid kit is, by its very nature, portable, so that's been going with us everywhere. It even sat with our towels alongside the kiddie pool at the Y today when we swam with the preschool class.
Apparently the Scotch tape in the kit is for the repair of small wounds and the glue is for larger ones. Given the crude techniques likely to be used on me should I spill any blood, I've been avoiding injury at all costs the last several days.
posted by Lisa Strandberg at 9:55 PM
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