It All Came Down...

Alexander pulled a bureau down on top of himself today. It was one of the most scariest things I have experienced as a parent. Hands down.

This morning Alexander was walking around our room after lying in bed with us for a bit. He was obviously done snuggling and was ready to play. He had gone over to Dan's spare bureau and started opening drawers. I was watching him and had asked him to push the drawers back in and to be careful with his fingers. He listened and closed the drawers. He looked at me and opened another one. I asked him to close it again. Repeat. Dan & I had told him to stop and then he opened the top two drawers.

And then it was like slow-motion. He pulled the drawer a little and the whole thing started to fall down on top of him. Dan leaped over me and I screamed something to the effect of "Oh dear God". Dan caught the bureau just as it hit the floor so I think he managed to lessen the blow but everything on top crashed to the floor. I think the fact that I screamed and the glass lamp shade broke at the same time was what freaked out Alexander.

His ankle was immediately red and puffy and when I tried to touch it he cried. I did a search of him and besides his ankle he appeared to be fine - no cuts or gashes. When I asked him if he wanted to get some ice, he immediately stopped crying. This made me think that he was probably a lot better than I was. My legs were shaking. We got some ice and came back upstairs and put ice on his ankle & knee.

And for having a bureau fall on top of him, he's a pretty strong kid. He was running on his ankles soon after without as much as a flinch. He has a couple scrapes on his arm, a small mark on his ankle and just a couple of small bruises on his shoulder & forehead. He might have rebounded quickly but it certainly took Mommy a lot longer to collect herself.

Let's hope we're getting all of these "events" out of the way now...because ooh man!

First Accident...

Alexander had his first accident with blood tonight during his bath. Now before the grandparents from NJ start freaking out and calling everyone - everyone is fine! This was as minor an accident that you can have!

I put him in the tub to a) cool him off as it was 90* and in the meantime b) give him his bath. Alexander goes in phases where he will either sit down during the entire bath or he will want to stand up, then sit down, and then want to stand up again. It can be challenging when you've already put soap in his hair and your hands are soapy, but I do manage to get him back on his bum.

This time, he was standing up facing me & the side of the tub and I was asking him to sit down on his bum. I was holding onto both of his hands. I then tried to get him to bend his legs but he didn't want to. He stood there and cried a bit. Then he tried to get out of my hands and in the meantime bumped his mouth onto the side of the tub.

At first, I just thought he bumped his mouth and that was it. He was crying pretty hard so rather than have the kid stand in the tub, I picked him up and that's when I noticed the blood. It was so minor that after I wiped his mouth with the face cloth, it was gone. Not even enough blood for a picture.

However, he still had a head full of soap and refused to get back into the tub. So...Daddy turned on the shower and jumped in. The plan was that Daddy would stand under the water and get Alexander rinsed off. However, Daddy had a different plan - to just dunk the kid under the shower. Alexander was NOT happy. I rinsed his hair while Daddy held him and we just tried to get him out as fast as possible...poor kid.

I checked his mouth before bed as he was brushing his teeth and nothing is swollen so it was a minor little bump with no side effects.