Doesn't Know Her Own Strength

Alison broke her rocking chair this morning. That would be her antique, family heirloom, pass it from family member to family member when they have a baby rocking chair. I was running the sweeper in the living room and she had gone down to her bedroom. The next thing I know, she's back in the living room holding a piece of wood. It slowly dawned on me that it was a spindle of some sort. Then I realized, with a sick feeling, that it was from her rocking chair. I grabbed it and ran to her room. Yep, it was a spindle from the arm of the chair. And I have no idea how we're going to fix it because it's broken off flush with both the seat and the underside of the arm. I suspect that it may have been broken before at some point because she's only two. She's not so strong that she can just cleanly rip a spindle out of the arm of a chair, but then again she was probably pulling on it to get herself up into the chair. So now I have to see if we can somehow fix it ourselves or find someplace to take it to get it fixed. At least we aren't in any hurry to get it fixed. My older cousin is done having kids and her brother and my brother aren't married yet. It should stay in our possession for at least another year. But still......I can't believe she broke the chair!!!