A merry-go-round.
A spinning, twirling, hurtling, whizzing playground ride constructed for our young children.
A merry-go-round is a ride that spins your child so fast that the world beyond is only a blur of rainbow colors.
A merry-go-round is a ride that sends your daughter to the ground when her tiny hands slip off the bars and lands her on her face down in the dirt.
A merry-go-round sometimes means an investment in costly dental services for years to come once you discover your daughter's front tooth is broken off at a diagonal.
A merry-go-round sets your daughter up for name calling through elementary school. Names such as snaggle tooth or Bugsy.
A merry-go-round leaves lasting reminders of kid fun in graduation photos, wedding portraits, even candid shots taken at the beach.
I have other names for this kid ride. More realistic names such as: the Whizzer, the Zipper, the Flinger, the Slinger, and last but not least, the Tooth Chipper.
You only have to look at photos of me to realize I've had some kind of run-in with a merry-go-round.
We were lucky this weekend. Madeline was flung from the ride and so was Oliver; but their only wounds were scraped knees and embarrassment.
Comes to find out, Merry Jennifer has forbidden these two children from the merry-go-round. "Smart woman," I'd say.
I was lucky as a kid in that merry-go-rounds gave me motion sickness so I stayed off of them! It was my desire to climb that almost got me injured (or killed)!
Posted by: Nancy | February 24, 2010 at 07:27 AM