Since our blog always focuses on how lovely things are in our life, here are some not-so-perfect memories - my top 3 "mom of the first 6 months" moments -
3. Making a game of rolling off the couch.
2. Collin eating his stroller cards -
Grammy Lesa bought him these cards that have different fabric for Collin to rub (like fake wool on the opposite side of the sheep card). They are supposed to attach to a stroller, but Cas attached them to Collin's arm. We were walking around the house talking, and though I was holding Collin, I wasn't paying attention to what he was doing . . . which was taking a chunk out of the stroller card.
1. My worst mom moment so far - and this is like call CPS horrific - happened on a super fussy day in the first few months. Unable to settle him down and at the end of my rope, I went for the Ergo baby carrier. After a minute, he always settles down in it. But this time, as I lifted Collin up to put him in it, I hit his head on the fan. And not just a stationary fan blade, which would have been bad enough, but the spinning ceiling fan in his room. It was terrible. Collin though did settle down snuggled up against me in the carrier soon after the incident, and now I always look up before I lift him into the air.
On a girl/boy note, I went to this women business thing at work and an executive told a story about a basketball coach that had coached the men & women's teams. He said the biggest difference was that after the game in the locker room, if he said "you played terribly" all of the men would think he was referring to someone other than themselves, while all of the women thought he was talking directly to them. When I was telling Cas about the stroller cards and how I might do a parenting bloopers post, he swore he had no stories to add. Could this be true or does he just have a male-biased, selective memory?
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