Hi, this is Future Ticia 2025, I wrote this post en media res, and assume you know what was going on Friday. I, Future Ticia 2025 do not know what I said on Friday, so I’m not going to assume you do. Instead, I’m going to make up an amusing story for how we get to this ER-inspired science lesson. Once upon a time there was a spectacular little giant. A little giant you say? That’s right, I say. And he went smashing through my house and caused me to forget all about the story I’m about to tell you that caused the events of our little Anatomy lessons.
The accident that caused the anatomy lesson
Notice, on Friday I’d said amusing, not good. But it did lead to a great discussion on the way to the ER.
So, as I was calmly making lunch on Thursday, Batman was attempting acrobatics using our recliner and the sofa. He slipped and fell face forward onto the tile.
Being the good Mom that I am, I of course said, “What were you thinking?” as I scooped him up without looking and calmed him down. After he’d calmed down a little, I then went into diagnosis mode. Looked at him and the large amounts of blood on his face and clothes, and said, “Let’s go to the doctor.”
So, everyone got dressed, because we OF COURSE were being lazy that day.
And as we were driving there, it turned into a science lesson. Yes, a science lesson on the way to the hospital.
See, the boys were worried that Batman was going to die because of all the blood that had come out. They wanted to make sure it wasn’t too much blood.
So, we talked about what blood is used for and how it gets food to the rest of the body and brings oxygen. It made for a good distraction while we were driving and helped keep everyone calm.
Then later, when we’d gotten home and I’d had a chance to read up on how much blood a little guy has in him, we talked some more.
An adult human has about 5 liters of blood in them. Batman is less than half of an adult human, so I averaged that out to about 2 liters. And that’s when inspiration hit.
Demonstrating how much blood a human child has in their body
The 2-liter bottle of Sprite is about how much blood Batman has in his body right now. They were all duly impressed, I was less impressed when they started talking about drinking said prite, but what could I expect?
And amusingly enough, I’ve gotten several comments from friends on Facebook sayin,g “Now I’ll be able to tell your twins apart.“
That only lasted for about a week and then his brother went and had an accident outside of a restaurant getting an identical head wound. Then a week later, their sister got a head wound right on top of her head.
Oh well, it’s been at least 3 or 4 months of no ER trips, so this is good.
You guys have any less exciting life experiences you’ve turned into science lessons this week? I promise next week to have a less bloody post………. Maybe I should go ahead and schedule that for the sake of sanity………
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