Oh, my baby's shoulders used to be so beautiful.
They are resting today in our makeshift sunburn ward. Chagrined by the pain & consequences of their carelessness, they rather glumly offered that they would like to stay home from the pool today to recover their skin. I tend to overtreat everything anyhow (when Fille got her ears pierced, I banned all sugars and made her take a nap every day for 6 weeks, "so she could heal"), so am glad they want to lie around & listen to audio books (Mrs Piggle Wiggle's Farm) & put icy compresses on each other just so.
I am grievously annoyed by this. How am I supposed to run an infirmary on two sticks and one foot? Anyhow, this is like being in some kind of MASH unit, the way everything is kind of balanced in the room & all the ice for the compresses has been brought up in a cooler. By one of the patients! This is no way to get well! For any of us! What kind of infirmary makes you fix yr own lunch? I feel like we have to draw lots to see who can rest next!
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poor babies! and poor you!
the way they are resting together is very sweet.
Posted by: aprill | July 07, 2009 at 12:40 PM
Poor... everyone. Geesh! No one likes seeing that on their offspring's skin.
Oddly enough, Lilly got just such a sunburn last week due to her own negligence AND poor adult supervision (there was a lot wrong with the picture from the very beginning, but I was not the parent-on-duty when arrangements were made, so... I am still spitting nails about the whole episode. UGH).
It was a wicked, wicked burn on her lovely Irish skin. She is now at "camp" for a week (grandparents) and has to wear a shirt over her swimsuit while her skin heals. This will interfere with her triathlon times, but I pointed out she might have thought of that while spending hour after unprotected hour in the pool.
Bleh. Hope they recover quickly.
Posted by: Lisa B-K | July 07, 2009 at 04:37 PM
oh dear, living in the land of slip, slop, slap i strongly recommend rash vests for the under 12s for any summer, outdoor, beach, pool activity. But given the hole in the ozone layer above my head, I also recommend aloe in what ever form you can get it. I actually got a great brand when we were in hawaii which i strongly recommend for taking the sting out and healing toute suite but can not recall the name till i get home:)
Posted by: curious | July 07, 2009 at 11:28 PM
Aprill, the sweet resting ended in a raft of complaining abt everything and a leaky bag of ice, besides realizing they were on the hook for their own lunch (and mine).
Lisa, I just kept stammering the whole time this was unfolding. What I asked was, yk, how had this never happened all the days of day camp yore?, and they were all, yk, we put sunscreen on each other. Oh, wow! Well, that's fucking brilliant, you guys, no? (God.). What a mess I didn't need.
Ms Minty, that's who is also looking a little ravaged -- Petey, my aloe plant. He used to be quite a large specimen, but ok, this is his job.
They have rash vests. Wetsuits, also. But living in the land of liberty, where somehow along the way personal accountability has been bred from the population, no other child is covered and the girls are in fact in Disney princess bikinis and they clamored, you know, "the weather is warm, blahblahblah," and I shrugged. I generally let them rotate their swimwear, and they have never looked like this, but this is about the faith they have in the magic of my protections (the fruits of my ceaseless nagging, more like), I mean ... grow up, kids! See the job through!
Ah, well. Vitamin D for everyone!
Posted by: lala | July 08, 2009 at 06:09 AM
ah yes, i do see the sensible racer back to her speedos imprinted:) personal responsibility and consequences, wish i could do a better job with my own two
Posted by: curious | July 08, 2009 at 05:12 PM