Burned!

We had a little scare this summer. We tried to head off to have a dinner with the Adams family up at Red Cliffs Recreation Area, but when we got up there found out the road was closed and we couldn't make it. We weren't about to waste a dinner trip so we headed to the Leeds City Park instead. The park is actually very nice. It is very big with big grassy areas, a little cooler than here with big shade trees and the sun goes behind a little hill creating shade in the park quite a bit earlier than dusk. They have a big fire pit set up for use as well.

We had brought tin foil dinners so we got the fire going and cooked up our food. We finished eating and played around in the park for quite awhile before we decided it was time to head back home. I'm sure anyone who knows Tucker knows that he absolutely CANNOT stay away from fires!!! We've joked about it before, but have gotten upset with him plenty of times. We were packing up the trucks to head back home and Tucker decided he wanted to throw one more tiny little stick into the fire...not just anywhere in the fire but in the "perfect spot" in the middle. The fire pit is kind of tall and a cement encircled ordeal. It sits in the middle of a pad of red square "tiles". There were some small pebbles from the parking lot that were all over the tiles and when Tucker leaned over to put his stick in the middle his feet slipped on those pebbles and dumped him into the middle of the fire!!!
Brandon and I saw him about the same time, but he reacted much quicker and hurried and ran over and grabbed him out of the fire. Tucker had instinctively put his right hand down to catch him when he fell and his knee had stopped him as well. We tried to turn on a hose by the fire pit, but the water must have been turned off...no water came out! Brandon rushed him over to the back of his truck and opened up a cooler full of ice he had brought drinks in and shoved his hand into the ice...anything to try to get the heat out. His warm-up pants he'd been wearing had melted, but thankfully not to his skin. We kept some ice with us in a bag and headed home to wait and see if it was going to need to go into the Dr. It ended up not being as awful as I anticipated and his hand healed really well and never ended up getting infected. We actually still had some stuff at our house from when Titan had burned his hand on my parents' stove so we immediately started putting that stuff on it and keeping it covered until it healed good.

I just remember being sooooo scared!! I know Yates was too, because he got really upset with Tucker and started yelling at him while his hand was in the ice chest about what a horrible decision he'd made and even spanked him in the back of the truck. Tucker was so scared he ended up pee'ing his pants (both because Yates was upset and because he was scared about what had happened). I don't put that in here as a negative against Yates at ALL! We were all scared and anyone who knows Yates and Tucker knows that if anything ever happened to Tucker it would be a life-altering thing for Yates to deal with.

Lots of talks about fires and what COULD HAVE happened and we'll see if Tucker changes his ways. Hopefully he'll be a lot more careful in the future!