I’m not entirely certain, but I think I may have just broken my toe.
I was chasing Kaelin around with a night shirt (Um… does anyone else’s daughter throw a total fit about what she wears to bed? Kaelin told me point-blank that she no longer thinks t-shirts are “cool” enough to be part of her wardrobe. Not COOL ENOUGH? It’s a NIGHT SHIRT. Who is she trying to impress in her SLEEP??? Anyway...) and I smacked my little toe on a chair.
It really hurts now.
Ow.
A week or two after Koren’s little ”incident," we had a more successful trip to a park. This park includes some small hills, and for those of you who may be in the dark about such things, the single purpose of HILLS is to ROLL DOWN THEM.
Well, for Kaelin, anyway. Koren was content to WATCH from the top of the hill, and eventually scraped up enough courage to trot down one at a pace faster than walking.
But both kids had a blast on the hills and the playground, and I was just happy to come away with pictures and no trips to the emergency room.
Toward the end of January, we celebrated my dad’s 65th Birthday. As a tribute, I (with the help of my mom) put together a slideshow of his 65 years to run in the background at the party. Here is that slideshow.
Warning: It’s about a 20 minute slideshow, so grab a cup of coffee.
Happy birthday, Dad! I hope I look that good at 65! May this be your best year yet!
Boys. They are infinitely more accident-prone than girls. I’m discovering this.
We had a delightful time at the park a couple of weeks ago. Until Koren accidentally walked backward down a step and plummeted to his doom. Somehow, he busted his lip on the inside and the outside. The blood was amazing. It was everywhere, just flowing out of his mouth.
I called Jens and told him to bring the car to pick us up, and bring lots of towels and wet wipes because all I had to mop up with was tissues.
Kaelin got totally freaked out by the amount of blood and decided Koren was bleeding to death. Therefore, the most appropriate course of action was to panic and run around screaming about the amount of blood and AAAAGH AAAGH AAAGHGH!!!
Koren cried. But by the time Jens showed up with the car and accessories, he was TOTALLY. OVER IT. He was done with the crying and ready to return to the playground. After we wiped up the blood he left on the slide, we tried to bundle him into the car and he was having NONE OF IT.
So we let him play for a little bit before I took both kids home in the stroller. Later, we took him to the emergency room to have his mouth checked out before the weekend, and everything seemed to be fine other than the small gash on the inside of his mouth, and the cut on the outside.
It healed amazingly quickly. After that day, it didn’t even seem to bother him. In about 4 days, you could hardly see the wound on the inside of his mouth, which was where most of the blood had come from.
