Last weekend I was cleaning and listening to a book on my “noise-canceling” (yeah right) headphones.

All of a sudden I heard my youngest screaming so loud that after about 10 seconds, I almost yelled, “Shut up! I can hear you through my headphones!!” (Don’t judge me for talking to my kids this way. They are annoying. They TRY to be annoying. They take pride in being annoying. The only thing they respond to is me acting like a lunatic.)

But when I realized it was more of a wail and less of a, “Let’s annoy Mommy” scream, I whipped off my headphones and ran downstairs.

I found him in the kitchen, standing in a puddle of water and ramen noodles, with his shirt ripped off and his torso looking like the bottom of a Louboutin.

*For those unfamiliar with the term, allow me to quote one of my favorite entertainers, Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar, aka Cardi B.: I can get ‘em both, I don’t wanna choose, these is red bottoms, these is bloody shoes.

Ok that probably didn’t explain much. I just wanted to quote Cardi 😊

In other words: Louboutins are fancy shoes with bright red soles. That’s what color my baby boy’s stomach was after dropping a boiling hot bowl of rahmey noodies on himself.

He was trying to pour some water out; the bowl was too hot and he dropped it.

Thank God he wasn’t only in his underwear (like usual) or it would’ve been much worse. He had a t-shirt on, and ripped it off and still got a burn that was already causing blisters to pop up.

I had no idea what to do, so I threw him in the shower and took care of the situation with the help of PJ’s googling skills — all while being grateful I hadn’t told him to shut up because I could hear him through my headphones 🙊

In the end, he was ok 🙏

He has a gnarly looking burn on his belly that looks like the man in the moon, but he’s fine.

I couldn’t even blame him for not using a pot holder. I’m always too lazy to get one and burn my hands on the daily.

I told him it was a lesson for us both: stop being lazy and just take the 2 seconds to get a potholder or it could be much worse next time!!!

I find it amazing how you can just be going about life, feeling content, and then 💥BAM💥 everything can change in the blink of an eye. Scary, actually.