Topic: Momma's Lover Dover
Momma's lover boy turned 2 1/2 yesterday, and what a hard day he'd had!! It originally started out a week from Tuesday. It was 20 minutes until naptime and we were playing with Emmee (one of our Lhasas) and she took off running down the hall. As he always does, Cale followed behind her just laughing! But it all went south within seconds. Something happened (him being in the hall and my x-ray glasses at the shop I didn't witness this) and Emmee bit him. Within 5 minutes I was whisking him to the doctor's office bloody, bruised and shoeless. The doctor told us he'd be fine, watch for infection yada yada. I felt so bad!
Fast forward to this Tuesday. We'd walked the mall in hopes that Cale would be calm and non-toddler like, but I was feeling mighty icky. So we return home and while sitting in the living room, Cale has one dog on each side of him, patting their backs and saying, "Num, Two! Two dogee!!" to which we smile and nod. Cale goes back and forth with petting the two dogs and not 10 minutes later is in the floor with Emmee. He's patting her back and, as we watched in pure shock, she goes after him, biting him and knocking him backwards. No parent should EVER have to watch this!! Chris grabs Emmee and I fall to the ground and scoop up Cale. This time the blood continues and continues. He lets me look and it's not just his lip this time, it's also his tongue and his gums above his 2 front teeth. Mortified, Chris takes Emmee and drops her at my mom and dad's. We are now searching for a home for her, a home without children. I am so heartbroken! We've had her for 6 years and she was my baby before Cale. It's wild, we'd never had a problem with her before and we, for some reason, thought it would be Skye instead of Emmee.
Then last night. . .what a night for Cale! We sit down to dinner in the living room (it's one of our favorite things to do). In an attempt to get Cale to eat well, we've taken his highchair and placed a TV tray in front of him instead of the highchair tray (which he can successfully take off!). Chris was out grilling him a few ribs and ran to the sliding door, banging and yelling in his way of scaring Cale. Normally this is fun and great, but it scared Cale so badly that he jumped and knocked the tray over. He cried and cried and cried. It was so awful!! THEN, my sister and Jason came over. They were playing "horsey" in the hall and all of a sudden Cale fell off of Carly. When he did, his ear caught the corner of the wall and busted it open. Once again, momma watched in horror but scooped him up to get some loving. Later, my mom showed up, and, like I've posted before, she has a knack for injuring my child. She stepped over the gate onto his hand AND then knocked him in the head with the chair she was so vigorously rocking in. This poor child is so beaten and battered, I'm surprised he won't be taken into custody!! :)
Now, being the good mother that I am (stop laughing!!) there will be pictures of some of these injuries. The first fat lip from Emmee, the second nasty place above his teeth from Emmee, Cale sitting at the TV tray, a picture from mere moments before the horsey fall and yes, probably the ear (which I've yet to see this morning since he's STILL asleep!). Hey, I've got to document these things and besides, we all know how nosey others are, you wanna see them too!! ;)
