{"id":134,"date":"2010-08-06T18:47:50","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T01:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexanderbrantley.com\/?p=134"},"modified":"2010-08-06T18:47:50","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T01:47:50","slug":"oops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ivy-witter.com\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"Oops"},"content":{"rendered":"

So tonight I feel like a bad mother.\u00a0 Let me explain…<\/p>\n

Alex is still not technically crawling, but his army crawl has gotten so fast that he can make it from the living room to the kitchen or down the hall in just a few seconds.\u00a0 James and I have started child-proofing everything.\u00a0 Cords are moved out of the way, outlets covered, magazines and other items picked up from under the coffee table, and I mop and vacuum the floor much more often than I did before.\u00a0 In other words, we felt safe letting Alex crawl around without having to watch him every second.<\/p>\n

It isn’t like I leave him alone in a room.\u00a0 I still keep my eye on him, but obviously not enough.<\/p>\n

Tonight, a leaf from one of our plants on the window seat in the kitchen must have been dangling down just enough that Alex could reach up and pull on it.\u00a0 Did the leaf snap off?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Did it slip out of his grasp?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Instead the whole plant came down off the ledge.\u00a0 Thank goodness it was a small plant in a thin metal pot instead of one of our larger plants in a ceramic pot.\u00a0 Nevertheless, Alex ended up with dirt all over him, screaming, with a knot on his head.<\/p>\n

30 seconds after I picked him up, he had already stopped screaming and was smiling again, but my guilt had just begun.\u00a0 The knot began swelling.\u00a0 I applied ice to try to get the swelling to go down.\u00a0 Do you know how hard it is to keep ice on a baby’s head?\u00a0 Alex was feeling fine and just wanted to get down and crawl around again.\u00a0 He didn’t understand why Mommy kept trying to hold something cold against his head.<\/p>\n

Anyway, he survived and I learned a lesson about turning my head away from him while he is exploring.\u00a0 I am also going to have to re-examine how “child proofed” my house really is.<\/p>\n

Here is a picture of Alex after I iced his knot.\u00a0 It doesn’t show up too clearly in this picture, but it sure stands out in my mind.<\/p>\n

Sorry, Baby!<\/p>\n

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