Monday, June 8, 2009

Slivers

We have one of the nicest decks around. So nice in fact that almost daily we have someone with a sliver, sometimes 2. Usually it is a fight to get them to let us dig it out. However, the other day Trent found Aiden like this:

Here he is trying to reach it with the tweezers...
When that didn't work he went in with a needle! You will have to blow up the pic to really see it!
What kid will round up tweezers AND a needle to dig out a sliver? It was such a nice change from the kicking and screaming that is usually involved in the whole sliver extraction process.

8 comments:

Ginny said...

impressive! i still have vivid memories of my mom extracting a sliver on vacation once. i think of it every time my kids freak out about the needle!

Amber said...

yikes! That's a big sliver! I hate those things...but nice for you he wants to take them out himself...maybe he'll be a surgeon!

Unknown said...

Oh my gosh that is so funny! He is one tough kid! He looks so cute getting the sliver out.

Sarah said...

Wow ~ you trained him well!

Amy said...

Your family is so cute! Your kids are getting huge! I love that you guys always find time to exersize and have date nights even with your crazy hoard! I need to learn from your example!

hbentley said...

That kid ia amazing. Good for him to try to get it out himself. He is just like Trent.

Unknown said...

We have one of those decks too. I don't even know how many silvers I have taken out of the boys this year. Just the daily grind I guess. Makes life interesting.

Julie said...

I love it when kids grow up just enough that they are able to tackle their own problems and you can just watch in excitement. The needle is a little scary. He's a brave kid.