Confessions

When Trey was a baby I burned his tongue a couple of times while feeding him. My husband likes to tease me and make it sound like I burned the poor kid at every meal. Not true! I can think of about 3 times that it happened. That is 3 times in his 3 year life. That's an average of 1 tongue burn a year. I burn my own tongue more than that in a years' time! However, Trey has this weird thing about not eating his food until it has cooled to room temperature. I choose to believe that it is in no way related to having his tongue burned ( by accident!) as a baby.
Now, there was this one other incident...I had been ironing in the living room. A storm warning was issued. I ran upstairs to see how bad it looked. Trey was old enough that he had just gotten the rolling thing down pat. Over the 3 minutes that I was upstairs, Trey rolled across the length of our living room, grabbed the cord to my iron and pulled it onto the floor. I heard him crying and rushed downstairs to find a burnt spot on my carpet and my poor baby with tiny blisters on his fingers from touching the iron. Trey was fine after about 5 minutes. I cried for hours.
So, it seems there was this thing with Trey and getting burned as a baby. Now don't call CPS or anything. I love my children to pieces and everything I am describing was an accident that I feel horribly guilty about to this very day.....I think Kayelynn is developing her "thing"..............
I've dropped her on her head......twice! I can't believe it! I am a nurse for heaven's sake! I've worked with newborns for 10 years and I've never dropped one. Never ever, and they can be pretty slippery! I've had my daughter for 4 months and already dropped her twice. How is that possible?!? Well let me tell ya..........
The first time was the Sunday before Christmas. It was a hectic morning (as Sundays always are) trying to get the kids dressed up and me too. I had propped Kayelynn up on my bed and tucked the quilt around her. I had my back to her putting on some jewelry when my mommy brain told me I better check the baby to make sure she wasn't...........hanging upside down from the bed, slipping slowly out of the quilt towards the floor!!!!!!! I reached for her just as the quilt gave way and she plunged the remaining 6 inches onto the floor. We both started crying immediately and I rushed her to my doctor husband to be checked out. (My nurse powers are completely useless when my babies are in a crisis. If someone else's kid stops breathing, not a problem. I can fix that. If my kid scrapes a knee, I melt into uselessness .). Anyway, Kayelynn was fine. We had a merry christmas. Fast forward
to today.
I had been nursing Kayelynn and she fell asleep on my lap. Trey was running around the living room all crazy like and I was begging him to be quiet so he wouldn't wake the baby. He was not listening very well and as he ran by me I leaned out to grab his arm, intending to make him see how serious I was about not waking the baby. I underestimated how far I'd have to lean to grab Trey and Kayelynn slid right off my lap. It felt like slow motion to me, trying to grab for the baby. I managed to almost get ahold of her leg. Almost didn't get it and there was my baby lying face down on the floor....again. She cried for a little bit but I couldn't find a scratch on her. I measured the distance from the rocking chair to the floor and added a few more inches to account for my lap. (Yes, I really did.). She probably fell about 16 inches. That's not enough to do any damage, right?!? No,
she is fine. She was moving all of her appendages and laughing at her brothers antics shortly after "the incident". I still feel terrible though. One day when someone says to her, "you were dropped on your head as a baby, weren't you?" What is she supposed to say? Oh Kayelynn....Mommy is sorry. I hope falling on your head really doesn't become "your thing".