A few days ago Phil and I had our first "Oh Crap" moment as parents. Actually our first two- and I'm not talking about little things like forgetting to bring a bottle when you are going to be away from home for six hours or leaving an entire can of formula in the grocery cart only to realize it when you are already home. These are scary "something really, really, really bad could have happened and then the whole world would think we are horrible parents" moments.
Liam uses a booster chair and has decided that he no longer wants to eat his food off of the tray. It has to be on a plate, and the plate has to be on the table. Great, he's learning to eat like a big boy.
Yes, that was really great until he decided one night that he was done eating, kicked the table and fell backwards still strapped in the chair. We have an entire wall of mirrors in our dining room (it's very 70's retro) and his head missed that wall by about 1/2 of an inch. Oh, Crap (the other word sounds much more natural for this situation, but I'm trying to keep it clean!).
Lesson # 1: Don't put the booster chair in front of a mirrored wall.
Our second "Oh, Crap" moment came a few days later. Liam loves to play knock-knock on the storm door because he can see through the window to daddy on the other side. It's soooo cute...he even knows how to say "knock-knock."
The other day Liam scooted over to his books behind the chair. I didn't think much about what he was doing because this is his typical after day care routine- find the "But Not the Hippopotumus" book and make mommy read it eighteen times before dinner. Not that day. That day I heard him playing knock- knock on something that sounded like fragile glass, not sturdy window glass but fragile, breakable, dangerous glass.
See the glass china cabinet in the background that is full of glass stuff? THAT is what he was playing knock-knock on...with a metal container of lip salve (where he found it, I have no idea!). He threw a knock-down, drag-out toddler fit when I took him away. It was a really fun moment, let me tell ya. And that leads to....
Lesson # 2: Dispose of all glass objects in your house when raising a toddler.
Something, some day will get broken. I realize this. But these two little instances made my heart pound because Liam could have been seriously hurt. I am usually pretty careful about watching what he is doing, but this just proves to me that I cannot even turn my head away from him for a few seconds.
These occurences reminded me of two little boys who made my mother utter the phrase "Oh Crap" more times than I can remember. I am pretty sure that my little boy is following in the footsteps of his favorite uncles- Oh Crap!
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