How Linnea Tried To Kill Us Both Today

[ailbhe]

Today was, again, alarmingly productive - by 9:30 I'd ond e aload of laundry and hung it on the line, there was another load on, I'd made a Very Importand Phonecall (about new nursing underwear, never mind, never mind) and cleared up beautifully after breakfast and Linnea and I had had a lovely play.

Then I went into town to go to the train station and add another episode to the increasingly dull and frustrating saga of Getting Train And Ferry Tickets To My Best Friend's Wedding. Now, I am going to attend this wedding if I have to swim and sit in a coffin while the undertaker tuts about decomposition times in June, but I think that the ferry and rail companies could be a little less obstructive. We have now, however, obtained a phone number which connected Rob to a real person who said that yes, they could book such trips, only not as far in advance as 6 weeks.

Then we had lunch and bought some drawing paper and stuff, and came home again. Linnea had a brief nap.

Then she climbed my armchair, leaned waaaaaay over the arm to reach the bookcase, flipped off it head-first backwards, did a spectacular somersault, missed the sharp-edged bookcase and the hard plastic walking toy, and landed on her head and back on the floor.

She looked a little surprised at first, and lay very still, but it obviously hadn't caused her immediate pain, unlike the other dramatic falls she's had. It's hard to get a toddler to understand "Can you move your legs? Can you move your arms? Can you feel your toes? Are you woozy?" but after a few seconds I deemed her well enough to be picked up and cuddled. She struggled away to do highly important things like unpack the under-stairs cupboard. I called Rob and he talked transport arrangements at me until my teeth stopped chattering.

She's getting better at spoons; she can manage to get food out of a jar, onto a spoon, and into her mouth now. Off a plate is harder - there's less to push against.

Comments

[ceeinjax.livejournal.com]

YIKES! Scary Mommy moment!

[radegund.livejournal.com]

*heart lurch*

(I'm not looking forward to that bit, I must say. O is only just beginning to pull himself up on the furniture. No climbing yet...)

[tiggsybabes.livejournal.com]

Scarey :(

When I was taking Kate & Holly to the park on Sunday, I stopped to adjust the buggy board for a few secs. When I looked up, Kate had crossed the road on her own!!! Heart in mouth moment & much telling off ...

[k425.livejournal.com]

I was going to say "it gets easier to bear" but I thought about it, and it doesn't really, you just have to bear it less. YoungBloke came home yesterday with a cracking bruise on his forehead where he ran into something at nursery. He compounded things by slipping and cracking the back of his on the wooden floor and my heart still lurches when he gasps and then wails. But he wails less than he used to - I expect tears far more often than he produces them, like L he gets up and toddles off to do something else. Sometimes he rubs his head - he can't actually reach the back of his skull yet so he rubs his forehead instead, which I find incredibly funny.

Have you tried L with a fork? YB loves a fork, even if he ends up eating a bowl of rice one grain at a time.

[oldbloke.livejournal.com]

Also with spoons and containers, keep a grip of the container, coz sometimes they'll turn that instead of the spoon, and everything falls out. Which is funny, but a bit wasteful.

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

definitely heartstoppy :(