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Wow... so I was watching So You Think I Can Dance (don't ask. it was on while I was washing the dishes and my hands were wet so I couldn't change it) and this man just got on his tip toes, dropped back and flew up and over to his knees.
Today I saw The Daughter nearly die. We went to go for a walk and run some errands including dropping off Gregor Maehle's book to a girl who lives down the street from me. The Daughter brought her California Chariot and she kept getting ahead of me because I can't run after her (too much bounce). So we turn around to go back and she's going down the hill. The street lets out into the busiest street in our neighborhood where people SPEED like FREAKS... and she can't stop. I'm screaming, f'ing screaming at her as I watch her go BOOM into the street... I see the bumper of a car... he stops... I am still screaming... now I'm screaming STOP STOP STAY THERE... she turns around and comes back. OMG.
The gentleman in the car stops and talks to her, I'm trying to catch up... he comes to me, slows... I apologize profusely, feeling like a really terrible mom... I explain I have just had surgery, I couldn't get her... I was screaming... I yelled at her all the way home.
Later I apologized and told her I was just so scared and then, maybe not the best thing to do, I told her that if that ever happened again, she should jump off the bike/scooter/chariot before she got to the intersection as whatever injuries she'd get by jumping would have to be less costly than getting hit by a speeding car.
The Husband and The Son were off to an Indian Guides event tonight so The Daughter and I then made mac n' cheese (the really bad organic kind), had a picnic in bed (as we were walking up the stairs she says "Daddy would never let us do that!") and watched Shark Tale.
Can you believe that I now have this gnarly pain in my teeth/head and I have to go to the dentist tomorrow. What the heck is happening to me?
This picture was a toss up for the Picture of The Day... I love it... you have to look at it for a few minutes:
She also demonstrated that she can do "that one pose where you lift yourself up"
Today I saw The Daughter nearly die. We went to go for a walk and run some errands including dropping off Gregor Maehle's book to a girl who lives down the street from me. The Daughter brought her California Chariot and she kept getting ahead of me because I can't run after her (too much bounce). So we turn around to go back and she's going down the hill. The street lets out into the busiest street in our neighborhood where people SPEED like FREAKS... and she can't stop. I'm screaming, f'ing screaming at her as I watch her go BOOM into the street... I see the bumper of a car... he stops... I am still screaming... now I'm screaming STOP STOP STAY THERE... she turns around and comes back. OMG.
The gentleman in the car stops and talks to her, I'm trying to catch up... he comes to me, slows... I apologize profusely, feeling like a really terrible mom... I explain I have just had surgery, I couldn't get her... I was screaming... I yelled at her all the way home.
Later I apologized and told her I was just so scared and then, maybe not the best thing to do, I told her that if that ever happened again, she should jump off the bike/scooter/chariot before she got to the intersection as whatever injuries she'd get by jumping would have to be less costly than getting hit by a speeding car.
The Husband and The Son were off to an Indian Guides event tonight so The Daughter and I then made mac n' cheese (the really bad organic kind), had a picnic in bed (as we were walking up the stairs she says "Daddy would never let us do that!") and watched Shark Tale.
Can you believe that I now have this gnarly pain in my teeth/head and I have to go to the dentist tomorrow. What the heck is happening to me?
This picture was a toss up for the Picture of The Day... I love it... you have to look at it for a few minutes:
She also demonstrated that she can do "that one pose where you lift yourself up"
Comments
My dear, you are not the only mother to which this sort of thing has happened, I actually had a runaway push chair incident...have never ever admitted that to ANYONE, thankfully Hux hit a tree (in the push chair) and did not escape into the road.....thank goodness she is alright.....Thinking of you heaps...in fact have something I want to send...can you email me your address, like the real one where your "hard copy" mail goes....
xSMN
Posted by: smn | August 17, 2006 1:27 AM
Such a lovely wild child. Can't see enough pictures of her.
Posted by: Ursula | August 17, 2006 3:33 AM
Oh!!! Ditto for what SMN said...we have all seen our children's lives flash before our eyes. I hope this memory goes away soon. You are just a human mom. We all have this stuff happen.
Love the new photos you're putting up every day!
I can't wait for October!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You'll be Kapotasana-ing again, and I will be on my way to having breasts that don't feel like baseballs!
xo,
Lauren
Posted by: Lauren | August 17, 2006 9:13 AM
Wow, so scary an incident with your daughter. So pleased things turned out okay.
I, too, involuntarily saw "So you think you can dance" recently, and the dancer named Travis is amazingly talented. A friend of mine tevos the show, and last night I saw a backflip tumbling run Travis did that was stellar.
Posted by: Don Livingston | August 17, 2006 9:30 AM
Wow.. I love all the colors and highlights in her hair... a truly beautiful child, she takes after her mom.
I am glad the chariott incident turned out to be no more than a scare.
You're gona need the week in FL just to calm down and recover!
Posted by: ciodude | August 17, 2006 1:15 PM