Survived the Weekend

I snapped this shot of Chloe reading this morning so you can see she's as great as ever, but she did have  rough weekend. Our weekends are always full and entertaining, but this weekend was a bit more rough and tumble for Chloe. I'm just glad she made it through the weekend without a trip to the hospital.

Carl and I have been trying to find ways to fit exercise into our schedules, so on the weekends I like to take the jogging stroller to the lake for a run. We then spend some time at the playground before heading home.

This weekend we met another toddler, Jake, who was playing on the slide with us. He was a big boy for his age and was climbing up and down the stairs to the slide. Carl was up top with the twins and I headed to the bottom to catch them as they came out. Right when I was at the opening of the slide I hear a commotion, Carl yells, the other parents gasp, and then after a few moments I hear Chloe wail. She'd fallen down the stairs.

There were too many kids, tumbles happen, and she turned out to be just fine. It scared her (and us), we had to walk around and cry a bit and she ended up with a little bump on her head. It really could have been so much worse, I'm grateful she's OK.

Then that afternoon, we're playing around the house and Connor knocks over one of our side stacking tables which falls right on Chloe hitting her in the head. More screaming and tears, but she was fine once again except for a little bump on her cute nose.

You don't want your kids to get hurt, but bumps and bruises, falls and scratches happen all the time. You can't put them bubble wrap to keep them from getting hurt.

Carl and I promised each other to be more diligent about watching Chloe. Then Sunday, we're in the nursery putting on the kids shoes to head out and we have another accident. I have this goofy rain stick, it about as tall as a walking stick but thicker. It's hollow with beads inside that sound like rain when you turn it over. Connor had a hold of the rain stick and we were letting him play with it while we put shoes on. He let it go and it made a perfect arc so the tip of the other end hit Chloe on the head. Again we had wailing and tears and this time the rain stick left a hugh welt.

The welt went away before we even made it out of the driveway, but poor Chloe had a tough weekend. I'm glad we didn't do any permanent damage!