Aiden fell onto his butt today. this unto itself wouldn’t be too bad. But he bit his tongue when he landed.
So today I got to deal with my first look at “Aiden Blood”
Needless to say.. not the milestone I was looking forward to ever seeing.
guh.
Boy is okay. He got ice cream from shimmeringjemmy and elocinnuala… shook off the pain in minutes.
Daddy will shake off the trauma by 2014
Methinks YOU could use a spoonful or three of ice cream, too.
Ice cream?
Not will my inability to process milk 😉
Re: Ice cream?
SOY cream, then.
Re: Ice cream?
Sorbet :).
Chin up Daddy, it’s less traumatic later.
Oooh sadness!
He’ll soon forget it, though. Babies are so small, so seemingly fragile, we tend to forget how they’ll bounce back.
Wait til the first time he bumps his head or scrapes a knee or bites a lip.
That or just wait until some kid dares your kids that he can’t do that and sure enough as a boy.. he does… and ends up in the ER. Boys will be boys.
Remember we didn’t call my son Crash Monkey for no reason. He’s earned every single bump on his head and boy he has some explaining to do if he ever has to have his head shaved or a phrenologist explore his head.
hey, you made it over a year without ‘first blood’…I would consider that fortunate!
and I completley agree with the above. Crash earned his name. Wait for his first big road rash when he’s speeding around on his bike.
*our* Crash that is, as opposed to Crash Monkey who is a different child with a similar history I trust.
Oh sorry hon. We have not experienced this particular one yet (not looking forward to it) but it seems that Micah is constantly hitting his head on one thing or another. The kid always has bruises on his head.
Not sure how I will react when he hits something and bleeds. Probably I’ll be shaken for a few years too.
isn’t it amazing how little kids bounce more than grownups?
you’re doing well, my friend. And it gets better all the time.
Dr. Waterfaery prescribes that Daddy find his designated kiss-providers and get kisses for his owies, too. 🙂
There are several milestones that leave you reeling. Funny how the books focus on the happy milestones and don’t really give much help with the not-so-fun ones.
*hugs*
The first bump and the first blood do leave you reeling.
The first attempt by the child to electrocute itself, though–now *that* is the one you will always remember, and tremble at. Broken bones aren’t as bad.
electrocution
He’s already done that. Oy.
And then there was the time when burned herself on the stove. About age 4, I think. I was a wreck.
I think I still remember that. Or at least I remember being told about doing that. And I still have the scar!
No lifelong phobia of stoves here, though, so I think I escaped okay 😉
I really love reading about your adventures as a father…
it makes me smile on days when the world I work in is far too dark and corrupt. Light exists, cradled in your arms. You are so blessed, Andre!
baby blood
My youngest 2 were forever getting fat lips and biting tongues. I found the only way to keep ice on them was to give them popcicles or those pedialyte freezies. They get a treat and the swelling goes down. Poor little guy!