My son was doing the cutest thing today. I only noticed him do this for the first time. He has a baby chick stuffed animal that my sis gave him for Easter last year. Today he was holding it and feeding his milk to it. It was so adorable. It's funny to see them imitating the every day things that we do. I wonder what he was thinking in his head. I used to love pretending when I was a kid. My cousin and I would always create these awesome stories and adventures. It's cool to see this pretend play sprouting in the little man.
I had an awful scare yesterday. We had gone out for the afternoon. I took him to Barnes and Nobles to run around and maybe look at books but he always prefers running around then choosing a book to read/listen to. Anyway, we have one flight of stairs to get to our apartment. I had him, the stroller and some stuff from the pharmacy in my hands. We climbed the stairs together. He ran to the neighbor's door and tried to open their door. I thought that would give me enough time to quickly open our door. But low and behold I turn around and he's taken 3 steps down on the stairwell...I of course panicked and told him to come to me. I went to grab him and he tried to run away from me (of course), turns around on the stairs and proceeds to stumble downward! My heart stopped beating. It was like watching a movie in slow mo where someone falls down the stairs but I couldn't believe it was happening right in front of me for real. I ran down to him.. He was screaming. He had hit his face on the railing. It was just awful. He stopped crying after 5 minutes. I tried to put ice on his bruises and then he was off on his way like nothing happened. He wanted to eat snacks and play. I think I was traumatized for life. I called our doctor's office immediately to take him in and get checked just in case, although I figured he didn't have a concussion because he seemed perfectly fine. The office was very accommodating, and let us come in within the hour. The nurse practitioner was cool. She took a look, said he looked fine, didn't look like he needed an MRI, eyes weren't dilated, he hadn't thrown up, no bleeding, he wasn't acting weird or unusual, he didn't cry for over 15 minutes when he fell...all good signs. She also said she'd seen bumps much worse. But she said to watch over him overnight and make sure he didn't start acting weird or throwing up. Overnight, he was fine. I just can't believe he didn't hurt himself more. Doc said kids are still pretty rubbery at this age. If we had fallen, we definitely would have broken something. Anyway, I just thank God he was ok. It really is just the worse feeling seeing something like that and feeling so helpless..I sometimes feel like I need to keep the kid on a leash or he's going to run down the stairs or into the street, but that's a bit inhumane, right?
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