You are expect to feed, clothe, protect, guide, love, cherish, and enjoy.
So when you walk into Wal-mart with a 13 month old child who is sporting a head wound and a black eye, you get THAT look - and ya'll know what I am talking about - the look of 'How could you - don't you watch your children???'
The real story, as told to me by my husband, is that Andrew got into a fight with the tower for one of the 1,297 computers we own. After fighting with the computer, he face planted on it, causing him to hit the corner with his eye. THEN the head wound came when he fell further and bounced off the chair, not once, but twice. He also caught a finger, but we really don't care about that one...
Since a Wal-Mart trip is in the plans for the weekend, probably WITH the baby - I have concocted the following story....
Andrew was minding his own business when all of a sudden a band of ninja Smurfs repelled from the ceiling, claiming our house as their newest land to set up a safe village. In order for this to happen they had to conquer the child like beast and his K-9 sidekick. After they had successfully tied up the animal ala Gulliver style, they went after the kid. Andrew batted the little blue ninja's until he thought he got every last one of them....THAT is when they sent in the sniper Smurf....Smurfette. She doesn't cary a gun, no...something much more lethal - her high heels. In utter desperation, she tossed the shoe to where the heel smacked Andrew smack dab in the eye lid.
In a blind stupor, Andrew crawls around (cause he isn't walking - and we want to make this believable) swatting at the Smurfs left and right...and that is when another sneak attack happens. Handy Smurf nails Andrew's sleeper to the floor and as Andrew tries to crawl away, he slams his head into the floor....
Yup - that is my story and I am sticking to it..
..Ya know looking at this picture doesn't do it justice...Andrew's eyelid is entirely black now...so tomorrow, we will have to take an updated picture. Be sure to click on the picture and enlarge it...you can see the eye lid one - and his unibrow...but that is a totally different post....
I remember the first time my daughter got a black eye. She tripped and fell and her face landed on the corner of my mom and dad's coffee table. I went to the store a couple of days later and a lady actually shook her head at me! I was so angry I almost gave her a black eye! :)
ReplyDeleteMan Atticus gets black eyes all the time. Thats what happens when you have a toddler that climbs like a monkey! haha But I so know what you mean by the looks people give you.
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