Dyson Incident

Jake owns a Dyson so that he can take it apart and figure out how it works. Apparently, Sunday afternoon he was seeing if his toy dolphin fit into one of the tubes of the vacuum. It did. One problem--it would not come back out.

So, after the kids were in bed, Travis and I started to free the dolphin. Mistake #1: Travis sends Jamie to get pliers. Mistake #2: Travis pulls as hard as he can on the wedged dolphin tale while Jamie says: someone is going to get hurt.

The dolphin's tale did not withstand the pulling from the pliers. The pliers came free and came so close to Travis' eye. He was really bleeding, and I could see it was the kind of gash that needed medical attention.

I couldn't get a hold of someone to stay with the kids right away, so we started driving and praying someone would answer our call. Thank you Ali for rushing to our house and even cleaning up the blood!

The cut got some glue, Travis has a nice shiner, and the next day we freed the dolphin by pushing it through the tube instead of trying to pull it out.