Like our website’s name says, “Parenting isn’t easy.”
Cynthia Olson sometimes calls it “chaos.”
At least on the tougher days.
And Cynthia had one of those days this week.
So did her 4-year-old son Parker.
You see, Parker got his head stuck in the family’s cat tree.
The ordeal started when Cynthia came running inside after hearing someone screaming while she was in the garage.
It was her 6-year-old daughter Evelyn saying her younger brother was hurt.
Cynthia was pretty dumbfounded by what she saw: her son’s head stuck through a hole in the cat scratching tree.
“I came in and took one look at him and I’m like, are you okay? And he’s screaming,” Cynthia told CBS 58.
She was concerned at first, but that concern turned into hysterics after she realized her son wasn’t injured.
“I hear everyone screaming and I just think please let there not be any broken bones today,” Cynthia said. “I saw him stuck in the cat tree and I thought ‘oh here we go!’ I thought I could just wiggle him out, I told him to relax.”
“Once I realized he’s just stuck and not actually hurt, then it was hard to control it, not to die laughing.”
But things got a little complicated from there. If not, more hilarious.
You see, Cynthia tried to get her son out but it didn’t work.
“He just wouldn’t budge no matter what I did,” Cynthia said, according to METRO. “My husband wasn’t at home, so I called 911 and was trying so hard not to laugh.”
“They asked me what was my emergency, and I had to say ‘umm my son’s head is stuck!’, and they said ‘stuck in what?”’ and I nearly cracked up when I had to say ‘the cat tree.'”
Thankfully, firefighters were there in less than 10 minutes.
To rescue Parker, one firefighter crawled underneath the cat tree so he could chat with Parker and keep him calm.
Two other firefighters carefully lifted the boy out of the hole he was stuck in.
And everyone was in hysterics throughout the whole rescue mission.
“I was just not tall enough to be able to do it by myself. Thankfully he was totally fine,” Cynthia said.
Cynthia was so grateful that the firefighters were so good with Parker.
He got some stickers and even got to take photos with the firemen.
“He [Parker] was all excited to see us, which is good with the whole pandemic, it was a brighter call to go on,” Waukesha Firefighter Benjamin Carl said. “It put a smile on everyone’s face, we all chuckled about it afterwards.”
Here’s a message from Parker 😂 @CBS58 pic.twitter.com/ohTbRN6svf
— Emily (Thornton) Fanous (@EmilyThorntonTV) November 20, 2020
But even that wasn’t the end of their ordeal. Parker’s story ended up going viral on social media.
Cynthia’s photos were shared online more than 28,0000 times.
“It was funny that the firemen were saving a kid from a cat tree, instead of a cat from a tree,” Cynthia said. “I’m just glad everyone gets a laugh out of our chaos.”
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