(Untitled)

[ivymae]

Last night, I sat in the hot tub and tried to catch up on reading while tom entertained Ella inside. She kept coming over to the sliding glass door and blowing me kisses, signing "Mama" and dancing. Somehow, without sound, it seemed so much more precious, a distilled version of our every day lives. I smiled at her, waved, and went back to my book,

Comments

[catalystical]

I have a great story about Russ falling from a 50 foot tree and a limb catching his underwear 10 feet from the ground. I remember it was summer, and just seeing a blur of red and pink fall quickly to the ground, then suddenly freeze in mid-air.

When I look back at my childhood, I am amazed no one lost any limbs from the secret workshops my brothers would improvise, no necks were snapped from the tree climbing we did daily, no (serious) food poisoning from my food creations...somehow, something always catches us right before we hit the ground.

[sunlit_mists]

my youngest did it too, when I dozed off on the sofa after a sleepless night, only I was spending the night at a friends (babysitting), and the door was locked. We searched the house for him, thinking it was a game of hide and seek, till I went outside to look... he had borrowed my friends shoes, and HOUSE keys, unlocked the door, and locked it behind himself. They live next to a fast moving creek. I have never been so scared in my life. He was fine, it took me a long time to recover. He was 3.

[eternal_green]

Aw don't be too hard on yourself, it does indeed happen to everyone at one point or another. Toddler C ran toward the street while I was helping a friend get her stroller through the door to her appartment building. I screamed her name and she stopped and turned around about 2 feet from the curb. That was when a huge city bus sped by. :/

[bellaleonessa]

*lots of hugs*

[susiehomemaker]

OMG!!! lol, though it does help that she/you come from a long line of escape artists. *hugs* i know how horrible it was when ean escaped & i am sooooooo thankful that she didnt get far.

but a real LOL, at how pissed she was that you didnt let her finish her walk. :p

elijah asked me this the other day *um mom, you know how some kids say "hey mom can i go to the park alone" and their mom says "yes son, and watch out for your brother". Can we try that already?* (i love how formal he ggets when he *writes* a conversation lol, its great to hear him play gi joes or something) I told him not yet, and he was royaly pissed at me, cuz you know 6 is all grown up....