It's a problem

Brother & Sister

Hayden - 22 months old

Brinley - 7 weeks old

a week of owies

...Or bonks as Hayden calls them


It all started when Hayden was playing in the yard while I was weeding. He ran around the car to go see Teton. He fell face first on our asphalt driveway and scraped his nose really bad.

Then a few days later I was getting both kids out of the car. I got Hayden out and he came around to Brinley's side with me. He was standing by the passenger's door. When I closed Brinley's door Hayden started SCREAMING. I shut his hand in the door! I'm always so careful of this, but this time I guess I wasn't so careful. I saw his hand just as I let go of the door! Good thing I wasn't slamming the door shut, the damage was bad enough. He had an immediate purple mark across the top of two fingers. Then I turned his hand over and the fingers had huge cuts on them! I put everyone back in the car, we didn't really need to go to that store anyway, and we drove home. The whole way home Hayden cried. He would stop for a few minuets and then reach for some snacks and cry all over again. I felt so bad that I started to cry! I thought, "what if I broke his fingers!" Luckily I did not. I felt like Mom of the year right then!

The next day I sat Brinley up in the corner of the glider and walked around the corner into the kitchen. I wasn't gone 2 seconds when I heard Brinley screaming bloody murder, followed by Hayden screaming. This is what happens when she starts crying after he has done something and he doesn't know what to do. I walked into the living room to find Brinley on the floor with Hayden standing by her. She was scared, but fine. I think Hayden was trying to play with her or hold her and it obviously didn't work out too well.

The next day while walking out of a store Hayden was holding my hand. He jerked away and I lost my grip and he fell right onto the sidewalk head first. Another bonk and another Mom of the year moment!

Also this past week my Dad broke his pelvis when a 800lb haybale fell on him while he was on the farm. He had surgery on Thursday and is recovering well.

He's Watching

Hayden has been watching us and doing what we do and saying what we say for a few months now. Some funny things he does are:
*Sit down exactly like we are. Arms folded or legs under us, etc.
*Watches Josh lift weights and then touches the weights and pretends to breathe hard.
*Sees that we are sitting at the computer typing on the keyboard and sits down with his keyboard {our old one} and types too!
*Puts one of my bags, or a reusable grocery bag over his shoulder and walks to the door like he is ready to go. {I always grab my bag right before walking out the door}
* If I haven't put Brinley's bundle me over her face he will walk over to her and push it up before we go out the door. {what a good brother!}
*{my latest favorite} Josh was studying the cranial nerves on our way to take him to school the other morning and he said AWW, reminding himself of what to have the patient do while he was observing for something. 2 seconds later Hayden opened his mouth and said "AWW"

whenever we get close to the school {or the tall buildings at the hospital by the school} Hayden will say "Bye, Bye DADA" "Bye, Bye DADA" over and over until Josh says Bye back to him. {not really mimicking, but cute and documentable {it's a word now!} none the less}

LOVE this little boy!

Sleeping?

I put Hayden down for a nap and went upstairs to do some things on the computer. I heard his door open but I listened and heard no more. Assuming {never a good thing} that he didn't see me so he went back to his room and climbed back in bed. After 30 minutes of being upstairs I came downstairs and heard the tv on. I thought he must have turned it on before returning to his room. Such foolish thoughts. This is what I saw! For 30 min this little stinker was up watching tv, not sleeping like his neglectful mother thought!