Fun with a Toddler!

Not much has changed here . . . constant housecleaning, for such a small house you'd think it'd be a lot easier to keep up with. But enough of that drudgery, yesterday, while I was cleaning I started having contractions and I wasn't timing them but I had noticed in a hour's time I had had about 10 so I decided to sit down and take a rest for a few minutes to see if they go away. For some reason at this stage in the game they don't want you having contractions that close together! While resting I was listening for Abby, our almost 2 year old. She had been in her bedroom and I thought that was where she still was by the sound of her playing. A few minutes later she came out and held up her very bloody little hand and said, "Mommy, LOOK!" She was not crying . . . I think she was more fascinated than anything else. We went to the bathroom to wash off the blood to find the source of the flow and I saw that instead of being in her room, she had been in the bathroom rummaging through her daddy's drawer. She's done this once before and she tried to shave her face like she's seen daddy do and ended up cutting her lip . . . not bad but bad enough she hasn't touched the shaver for quite awhile . . . I guess the old sayings true, 'old wounds do heal' . . . and she being a toddler forgot that they hurt before they heal. I picked up daddy's shaver and told her, as blood was pouring out of her thumb, to not touch it because it hurts and showed her finger. Then I went to put a band aid on her thumb, which coincidentally she had shaved off the tip of . . . BIG mistake. She is EXTREMELY particular about clothing and anything that goes on her. Abby HATES band aids. Whenever she gets a shot she cries more from the band aid than the shot. So after about 20 minutes of holding a napkin on it and squeezing it, I realized that it was GOING to have to have a band aid. By this time, blood is all over her dress and me and the table and I was slightly frustrated so after a slight battle and for the sake of the Internet and you soft hearted people out there, I will spare you the details of the battle but, let's just say she now is willingly wearing TWO band aids on her tiny little thumb! I think the thing that cracked me up the most was that cutting off the tip of your thumb hurts and that's NOT what she cried about . . . she cried about the band aid! Oh, children are fun!!!! By the way, Don't you love the morning-mommy-hasn't-given-me-a-bath-or-done-my-hair-look! I'm told it's quite the fashion!
~Patty