Thursday, February 15, 2007

Unfit parent

I'm officially a bad mom. 2 days ago my children's worlds came crashing down due to either my lack of patience or my lack of attention.

Let me preface this story with a statement. My daughter might need hearing aids. For some reason, my asking her to complete a task 4 to 5 times in a row seems to be going in one ear and out the other. I assume it is a lack of hearing that is the cause of such a thing. After repetidly asking her to put on clothes after her bath, I gave her body a turn and a push. Unfortunatly, her feet had not yet made the full turn when I gave her the push and her hands were in the pockets of her robe. Her face very literally bounced off the ground. (Groan) I hear ya! Fortunatly, no blood was shed, but she did have a mark on her upper lip that actually looks a little like lip liner. She quickly got over the trauma, but not before her little brother got a piece of my parenting skills.

Noah has gotten into climbing onto any and everything that he can. This such occasion just happens to include the child size chair in Sophie bedroom. While my back was turned, he climbed up onto that chair and it tipped over. Are you cringing yet? Just wait. He doesn't just fall over the chair. Oh no. The chair strikes the backside of Sophie's keyboard that was a present from Santa. It breaks off a LARGE piece of the piano and in the process Noah hits his face on all the keyboard buttons and such. Right on the bridge of his nose! Now I have a screaming baby with a bloody nose and scratches ALL over his face. He looked like someone had taken a 2x4 to this poor childs face! It was the most horrifying thing that has happened to my baby since the day of his birth. Way to parent.....MOM! Next time I'll let Sophie play with matches and Noah can have the lighter fluid!

1 comment:

aubrey said...

oh i can't stop laughing! it's SO good to hear that you are just like me. so refreshing. ah, still laughing here.

ok. well, i'm sorry about noah's accident, that is HORRIBLE. max is barely starting to try to climb up things and not even getting close to actually being able to GET up. how sad! poor little noah. and sophie...er. you know how hockey players take "falls" or soccer players or any professional sports player for that matter? ava could compete with the best of them. if she isn't obeying and i'm bringing her to her room, she will dramatically fall or say "owie, mommy stop HURTING me." ugh. i think it's a manipulative 4 year old thing. i don't know. but it is SO frustrating. because then i'm filled with guilt and tell myself i suck as a mom.

which we don't. we're awesome mothers. YOU are a spectacular mother. thanks for your post!