Fire in the hole!!!

Over Christmas we bought Maddie a teddy bear that you can put in the microwave and it warms up (like this kind). Maddie named the teddy bear Freddie and has many warm nights sleeping with him (as the whole point of putting him in the microwave is that he stays warm for about an hours or so).

Last night I put Freddie into the microwave to heat up for bed, I left to get her ready for bed and Renee then walked into the kitchen and noticed smoke in the microwave and when she opened the microwave she was welcomed with the smell of burnt Freddie, yes Freddie had caught on fire in the microwave and a hole, right around the butt of the bear, was formed because that was the part of him that, ironically, caught on fire.

Everyone was okay, but our house smelled like clothes would after a bonfire, and I had to go into Maddie's bedroom and break it to her that Freddie would not be joining her for bed tonight. Upon hearing this she asked me what was wrong and I told her the truth that Freddie caught on fire and was burned (maybe not the best time to tell the truth). She was curious to see what this meant and started walking towards the kitchen and when she saw that Freddie was on the kitchen counter with a hole in him, she just started to burst into tears and yelling if Freddie was going to be okay. We told her that he was going to go to the hospital and see the doctor (Dr. Magoo) who is a burnt bear specialist. She could not fall asleep without Freddie as she was pretty shaken up by it (I mean who can blame her, if one of your friends had a hole burned into their butt, you would be distraught too), so Renee performed emergency surgery and bandaged him up so that Maddie could sleep with him. In the morning, Maddie's room smelled like someone was roasting dead bugs all night (which couldn't have been healthy for her), but she was happy and had a great night's sleep (probably the toxic fumes), I guess Freddie will just have to live with a big bandage over his butt until he is retired.