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Quick hits
The good: After much hand-wringing over moving the boy from day-care to an in-home sitter for the two hours of care we need each day, the day-care made a counteroffer that we couldn’t refuse. For his part, the boy suddenly is in love with day-care, smiling happily at me as I leave each day.
The bad: The boy broke his first dish on Monday and subsequently shed his first blood. Oh, it was all pretty innocent. He was “helping” me unload the dishwasher (after I had removed all the pointy things) because I thought it was a fairly harmless activity. But he managed to smash a small plate on the floor just out of determination, I guess.
About 5 minutes later, I noticed a small spot of blood on one of his toes. Now I don’t know if this is from the dish or from some bit of danger in the living room, but I’m expecting CPS to show up anytime now.
It was too small even for a Curious George band-aid and the boy never noticed. (Pretty tough.) But it’s always fun to call up Shannon and say: “OK, now everything is ALL RIGHT, but …”
The ugly: The coffee maker up and went yesterday. Its passing was confirmed (and loudly lamented) this morning. Cause of death, unknown. Alas, poor Mr. Coffee, I knew him well. Pray for me.
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By Shack
June 6, 2008 1:49 PM | Link to this
First Blood, ouch. Good to get that out of the way, I suppose. Ours was a little more of an ordeal. It involved a coffee table, an emergency room, a 9-hour wait and five stitches. Oh yeah, and they gave the 13-month-old boy some concoction that made him basically drunk. He was giggling, repeating the word 'duck' over and over while trying to kiss everyone in the room. (Insert joke about father doing same at Chicken in mid-nineties.)
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Dave responds: A 9-hour wait? Ouch. Still, given my boy's fearlessness, I know the emergency room is a given at some point...
By stevear
June 5, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this
I prefer these sorts of tot tales over bottlecaps boozin' (and everyone else's blogs); it's good to read near-normal guy stuff...keep it up man.