"I almost gotted squisheded!"

Cody and I bought the boys some new book cases for their room. We wanted to move the books to their bedroom so that when people brought their kids to our house, I could say the bedroom was off limits and know my books would be okay. We had one child visit recently that pulled out all the books from the bookcase while his mommy watched. He ended up ruining several books, the neighbor girl yelled at him, Zach ended up crying... it was wonderful.

Add to that: the bookcase is a little wobbly and tall. I was afraid it would hurt one of the kids eventually and bolting it to the wall won't work because our walls are cheap and stuff falls out. Plus the boys can't safely reach the top anyway.

So we bought shorter bookcases, put them together, put them in the boys' room, and started filling them with books. At one point, Wes decided to put his beanbags next to the top heavy bookcase and climb a little to get more books. The whole thing toppled on him.

Yeah. Big tall heavy book case laying on little Wesley's back. Luckily the beanbags absorbed most of the impact and we didn't need to go to the emergency room. Zach helped Wes to the couch and got Wes an icepack for his head. I overheard Zach tell Wesley "WESLEY! I'm so glad you're okay! You could have DIED!"

Wes said " /sob I know! I almost gotted squisheded!"

All is well now though and the big book case is out to the curb. None too soon either.