Thursday, April 5, 2012

Don't Ever Body-Check an Open Screen Door...


So Lauren has now learned the hard way that she needs to play close attention to the screen doors, and whether they are open or closed.  In the past she took for granted that they were always closed and she could lean up against them and cackle through the mesh grid; however, those days are now over...
Back on March 20th, sweet Lauren took an unintentional speedy dive out of our back door, a three step drop onto concrete. :0(  Such a sad slow motion sight to see, but there was just no stopping it.  I was calling for her to come into the kitchen so we could go outside--through the back sliding door, which has a screen.  She proceeded to come speeding around the corner from the living room into the kitchen.  Then seeing the back door open, she apparently decided she was going to keep runnig and do her "normal" slide screen body check.  And seeing her make this decision was like slow motion...I was like a deer in the headlights.  No words came out, not noise at all...I just see Lauren barreling towards the back door and thwup-gone!  Head first down wooden stairs to the concrete slab and silence...then three seconds later the shrieks began.  Oh did she wail, and rightfully so.  Her nose took a lickin', as did both her front shins and the palms of her hands.  So after some comforting right there on the back stairs, Lauren gets up and goes to the screen and gives it a pat/slap and sharply shouts, "No! Bad! No! Bad!"  She took the back door "beat-down" like a champ and was off and playing in the backyard with her toy lawn mower...all with mommy in tow trying to put some neosporin on the gallery of open wounds!

...& Mommy Will Continue to Learn!

So I just learned tonight to never try and give Olivia a bath without Lauren. Because it just won't happen--really! No matter the location, baby Lauren will find her way into water! I swear she could make-a-day out of a rain puddle! ;0P  At any rate, she was getting into this bath...even if that meant sitting on her sister's lap in the kitchen sink! No lie--wish my camera was handy and not MIA, but it was a pretty hilarious moment. Though Olivia was kind of wide-eyed about it all.   Lauren kept saying "ver ver ver" to Olivia, which I can only guess she was trying to say "over" to Olivia...as in, get over so I can get further in this water fully clothed!!! AHHHHH!!! Oh Baby McGyver, how do you continue to defeat me?! If only they issued two additional arms with each additional child after that first one :/  Guess I better start praying for quicker reflexes too, because baby Lauren keeps coming at me like a spider monkey anymore :0)

This is how Baby Lauren looks right as the adrenaline hits--the Spider Monkey Cry!