Another one bites the dust

Alaina and Kase have been begging me to take the guard rail off of their top bunk beds for weeks now. Alaina thinks it is totally babyish to have it on there. I wanted it to stay but told them they could ask dad and see what he said. Of course he said, "Sure." So about a week ago, down they came.

I told them the story of when I fell off my top bunk bed, as a kid, and they all laughed. Dan told me not to worry, his logic is that if they've never fallen off of a bottom bed then they won't be falling off of the top one; because a bed is a bed.

Well last night it happened I was laying in bed and at about 1am a huge, loud thudding crash came from the girls bedroom. I ran in and Alaina was lying on the floor moaning and crying while holding her back. YIKES!

I noticed that she had put her ladder in the dead center of her bed, instead at one end of the bed which meant that she had tumbled and thudded her body down the entire length of her ladder on her way down. Everything on her dresser was knocked off because she had slammed her head into that also. Ouch!

Surprisingly enough she was still about 90% asleep so I checked her all out, got her some ice and put her back in bed, with a huge stack of pillows as her guard rail :)

In the morning she limped out to breakfast like she had been run over by a truck and asked if I would send her with a note to be dismissed from P.E.

This is what her back looked like.

She had four other matching ones up and down her legs with a huge goose egg on her shin. Ouch!

Alaina says she still doesn't want a rail on her bed but I'm sure she will be hugging her wall a little tighter from now on :)