A Wedding, A Baby, And A Dumb Dad

I went to a wedding for friends of mine a while back. There were a lot of people in the church foyer waiting to be seated by the ushers.

I saw the cutest baby in the arms of what I guess was it's Daddy. I smiled when I saw how sweet they were together.

For some DUMB reason, Daddy thought he'd play ball with his baby and started tossing it up in the air and catching it (luckily) on the way down. At first I thought he was going to drop him, but no. Something worse happened.

There was a large beam running the length of the church sanctuary that extended into the foyer where we were waiting.
The first two tossings of the baby into the air looked like fun and made Baby giggle hysterically.

The thrid wasn't so funny by any means. Daddy tossed his precious baby right up to where that beam was, the baby hit it's poor head on the beam and then .. nothing.

Daddy knocked the baby out cold, the wedding had to be postponed because the it was the bride's niece and she was too upset to go on with the ceremony after the paramedics came and took poor silent, limp baby to the emergency room.

Dumb daddy. Poor baby.

(The baby turned out to be okay after it was kept over night in the hospital and the bride and groom? They never ended up getting married for some reason)

by Coleen age 32