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Saturday, September 12, 2009
Poor April
Went round to Tim's mums tonight for dinner (we were supposed to be picking up Rosie at the same time but she's having a sleepover instead).
Anyway, the kids were down the garden playing and I decided to go down there and get April in because it was dark. About halfway down the garden is a fence and gate and I'd just got to that when I noticed the kids were coming the other way and April was sniffing a bit sadly (still not found out why that was). Rosie climbed over the gate, next was Luke (who, as usual, was completely out of control). Instead of climbing over the gate carefully (bearing in mind that April was right behind him), he LEAPT over it, swinging his legs out and KICKING her straight in the face and sending her flying backwards down the steps and onto the grass.
For a split second there was a horrible, sickening silence and I actually thought he'd knocked her out or something ... then she started crying. Meanwhile, I was frantically trying to get through the gate to get her only to find the stupid boy had PADLOCKED it!! Why for heavens sake?!
I was really angry about him being so careless and silly when he knew she was right behind him but, more than that, I was furious with m-i-l (and d-i-l!) because they did NOTHING (other than to say "oh I'm sure he didn't mean it". They didn't move out of their chairs, didn't get up to see if April was ok, didn't reprimand him in ANY way for being silly and over the top with a 4 year old child about.
On the way home in the car, Tim says "that's the problem, they were really too old to adopt him really and they just can't deal with him". That's the truth I'm afraid *sigh*. He's a demanding child with various issues and, although not his fault, he needs someone with more get up and go to deal with it. They just don't.
Thankfully, April appears fine - her bottom seems to have taken the brunt of it (luckily a very chubby bottom and so it acted as a shock absorber!) Her face doesn't appear to have any marks on it at all so I guess he must have caught the side of it rather than square on.
Poor child, that's the second time this week she's been whacked in the face!
Anyway, needless to say, we were pretty glad to get home! I cleaned up April to get her ready for bed and Tim was promptly dispatched to buy a bottle of Baileys!
.....no I haven't drunk the whole thing! Just one little measure ..... bliss!! :)
PS - now watching the last night of the Proms - can't believe it's the last night! That has gone really, really quick this year!
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