Who really says that anyway? I suppose someone does. Well it is true here at the Animal House! Whenever I tell these stories to people invariably what follows is, "Awww poor Small!" Those words have never been truer.
Because of our indecisiveness about the room sharing and his refusal to sleep through the night my dear Small was STILL sleeping in his bassinet. I heard him stirring so I was gathering up a diaper and some clothes to start the day when I heard a THUD and then a sad sad cry. Oh it broke my heart! Hopefully someone out there knows what I mean.... Anyway so I ran into the room and scooped him up in my arms and he immediately stopped crying and looked at me as if to say 'oh hey Mom'. He seemed fine but I kept an eye on him and made sure to give him some extra tlc. The bassinet is now living at Auntie Kristy and Uncle Before you gasp at my parenting skills and run off to look up the number for child protective services listen to this.
A mere 5 days later I was washing up some dishes Small was in his highchair while Large and Medium were playing in the playroom. Medium came in and grabbed the tray of the highchair and lifted up her feet forgetting she was penguin and not a monkey. Of course I said 'Meds please stop! You can't do that, sweetie, you'll break the highchair'. So she moved her party to the side of the highchair. She was standing on a bar that is near the bottom on the side of the highchair. As I am screaming Medium(!!!!) you guessed it, it falls right over. She sort of rolled out of the way so it did not totally fall on top of her. But poor poor Small he was strapped in just hanging kinda sideways going 'what the heck are you letting them do to me Mom???' . So I pick it back up and get him out to inspect the damage. He's screaming, she's screaming, even large joined in on the crying! Why not, right? Oh poor Small, there really isn't anything else to say.
They are all fine....for now! Hopefully they will all make it to their next birthdays in one piece and still be allowed to live with their Mom.
