Woe.be.gone
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I had a swimming incident with my youngest son also. He was probably 4 or 5 and had only had maybe one swim class in at the time. I was older when I had him so I was probably around 41 or so. I was sitting with my sisters at a poolside table and my son and his two cousins were swimming near the ladder. It was one of those 5 feet deep pools. I saw my son go under, jumped out of my chair, bent down and as I held on to the ladder I put my other hand under and grabbed him by the arm and pulled him up. Thankfully he was ok. He had little or no experience swimming underwater at that time. I just reacted.
BUT....I honestly can't say I would have reacted the same way if I'd have been in my early 20's. If I'd been in my early 20's I may not have even been watching him. I hate to admit that but it is true. The mother you are in your 20's is NOT the mother you are in your 40's.
So...IDK how KC would've reacted to an accident. I just don't see the accident theory though. To me....it just doesn't jive with the rest of her behavior since Caylee was last seen. In my opinion....there was no accident. It was a willful killing.
MOO
So true. Now I really feel bad as I'm an older mom too! I know what you mean though and life goes wrong sometimes even for the most well meaning people.
Something I did do right, because there was early talk about Caylee and bagels. I was on the phone and my son was almost four. I was chatting away and he came in and grabbed something off the kitchen counter and took the fifteen steps back to were the TV was. A minute or two later I walked out there and he was standing still his face a purplie-red color. I immediately took my hooked index finger, inserted it into his mouth and did a finger sweep to the back of his throat. Out came the sodden bagel he had snuck from under my nose off the counter. He took a breath and was fine. I thought 'wow, I didn't even know I knew that.' That time some instinct thingy kicked in. My child kept me hopping when he was young and that's almost an understatement!