Showing posts with label accidents. Show all posts
Showing posts with label accidents. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

A Long Way Down

How cute are these girls? The cutest ever. They love each other so much and always greet each other with a big hug. They (along with Blake, who was sick today) go to St. Andrew's Mother's Day Out every Tuesday together. They (or I) carry those big red buckets down a long set of stairs and into their cute little classroom. Today I took them, and they were so happy to go. Sooo cute.
See these boots? How cute are they? Michael picked them out for me for Christmas all by himself--with the help of a photo I might have taken of them on my phone while in Steve Madden, then perhaps emailed him with a gentle suggestion: "Buy me these for Christmas." Doesn't he have great taste? What a cute husband.

See these stairs? These long, long stairs? Not so cute. These are the long, long stairs I get to walk those two cute girls with their two cute buckets down on Tuesday mornings. But those two cute girls insist on walking themselves--so we make a very slow trek. I try hard to steer my laid back Gracie along with gentle "Hurry ups," and sometimes we get in a little struggle over who should hold the big red buckets as we hold up the other 24 mothers with their toddlers and red buckets who are waiting behind for our cattle drive to proceed down. But always my biggest concern is that the girls will fall down these long, long cement stairs with the big red buckets and get hurt. That's always worry numero uno. So much so that today as I was turning back to gently "Hurry up" Gracie down, those cute boots Michael picked out for me that were on my feet kind of got ahead of themselves and not cute little Gracie or cute little Sadie, but ME--I went stumbling down six stairs, tangled in buckets and boots, and landed on my knees on the hard cement while cute little Gracie and cute little Sadie and four other mothers and six other toddlers watched in shock. Ta-da!

Saturday, February 13, 2010

What a Good Mom

Alex and I were in the car discussing how one of our friend's kids had been in an accident and had to go to the hospital. This led to a discussion of our family's injury list and past hospital visits: Alex-"nursemaid's elbow" at one, stitches at a year and a half, and concussion at eight, Gavin-broken leg at 18 mos., Blake-the third kid, so just lots of butterfly bandages and skin glue...

In this conversation, I realized aloud that all of our kids' major medical "incidents" had happened while they were not in my care, but under supervision of Daddy, a babysitter, or a friend. I then had the audacity to exclaim that I must be a pretty diligent parent to prevent such accidents. At this point, I caught my daughter's face in the rearview mirror, where she was rolling her eyes.

"What?" I asked.
"Well...it's just that you think you're such a good mom because none of those injuries happened when you were around."
"Yeah? So?"
"Mom, where were you?"