Pain and Anguish
The Whomptons had major issues this weekend.
First, Eric forgot to move Raina into a diaper overnight, so she wet her underwear inside of a fleece sleepysack. Fleece is non-absorbent, so Raina soaked in her urine for a LONG time. She has a serious case of diaper rash now and it hurts her bum so much that she asks for butt goo by name.
Second, Raina acquired a new pair of shoes (Spiderman shoes, woohoo!) this weekend and she tripped and fell a lot while breaking them in at the Soulard Mardi Gras Pet Parade. Her knees and hands got all scraped up.
Third, at Target today Raina fell out of the "bus" (actually a cart) and landed on the hard, hard floor. She was, understandably, startled that she could fall out of the cart and, additionally, quite upset because it hurt! This is probably why we're supposed to strap our child in.
Fourth, in loading up the car and getting buckled in, Raina was unable to protect her Trader Joe's balloon. Instead, she had to watch, trapped, as it escaped the car and then floated away from her into the sky.
Fifth, at the end of a long day, Raina went to sleep on her cot. Fifteen minutes after we put her down, we heard her walking upstairs. Turns out, she accidently rolled off of her cot while sleeping and woke up because she slammed into the floor. She required a fair amount of comforting to recover (again, surprise and pain coupled together).
Sixth, while walking Roxanne Saturday morning, Samantha and Krystal noticed a xmas tree on the walkway. Sam noticed it, mentally registered it, and then promptly tripped over it. She flailed out and twisted her body to catch Roxanne's leash (she missed it and instead slapped her hand hard on the concrete) and then slammed her knee, hip, and shoulder into the ground. Roxanne gleefully scampered around as both women shouted her name, and then gleefully dodged the adults as they tried to get her out of oncoming traffic.
Seventh, to add insult to injury, Roxanne lifted her head up (on command!) from a seated position and whacked Sam in the forehead with great power. Sam sported a lovely bruise and bump and scrape on her forehead and was relegated to frozen veggies for a series of 20 minutes on, 20 minutes off. The physical pain was coupled with the mental pain of knowing she had caused the action to happen :)
Eighth, Eric lost a heartbreaker between the Chargers and Titans, oddly reminiscent of the 2008 Titans-Chargers playoff game. With the one major difference: Eric's Titans were highly competitive and took the Chargers to overtime! Nonetheless, this was the greatest NFL video football game of his life.
Ninth, ironically, the perpetually accident prone Krystal survived the weekend incident free. Is something wrong with the universe? Well, maybe not ... there are still 2.5 hours to go ....
First, Eric forgot to move Raina into a diaper overnight, so she wet her underwear inside of a fleece sleepysack. Fleece is non-absorbent, so Raina soaked in her urine for a LONG time. She has a serious case of diaper rash now and it hurts her bum so much that she asks for butt goo by name.
Second, Raina acquired a new pair of shoes (Spiderman shoes, woohoo!) this weekend and she tripped and fell a lot while breaking them in at the Soulard Mardi Gras Pet Parade. Her knees and hands got all scraped up.
Third, at Target today Raina fell out of the "bus" (actually a cart) and landed on the hard, hard floor. She was, understandably, startled that she could fall out of the cart and, additionally, quite upset because it hurt! This is probably why we're supposed to strap our child in.
Fourth, in loading up the car and getting buckled in, Raina was unable to protect her Trader Joe's balloon. Instead, she had to watch, trapped, as it escaped the car and then floated away from her into the sky.
Fifth, at the end of a long day, Raina went to sleep on her cot. Fifteen minutes after we put her down, we heard her walking upstairs. Turns out, she accidently rolled off of her cot while sleeping and woke up because she slammed into the floor. She required a fair amount of comforting to recover (again, surprise and pain coupled together).
Sixth, while walking Roxanne Saturday morning, Samantha and Krystal noticed a xmas tree on the walkway. Sam noticed it, mentally registered it, and then promptly tripped over it. She flailed out and twisted her body to catch Roxanne's leash (she missed it and instead slapped her hand hard on the concrete) and then slammed her knee, hip, and shoulder into the ground. Roxanne gleefully scampered around as both women shouted her name, and then gleefully dodged the adults as they tried to get her out of oncoming traffic.
Seventh, to add insult to injury, Roxanne lifted her head up (on command!) from a seated position and whacked Sam in the forehead with great power. Sam sported a lovely bruise and bump and scrape on her forehead and was relegated to frozen veggies for a series of 20 minutes on, 20 minutes off. The physical pain was coupled with the mental pain of knowing she had caused the action to happen :)
Eighth, Eric lost a heartbreaker between the Chargers and Titans, oddly reminiscent of the 2008 Titans-Chargers playoff game. With the one major difference: Eric's Titans were highly competitive and took the Chargers to overtime! Nonetheless, this was the greatest NFL video football game of his life.
Ninth, ironically, the perpetually accident prone Krystal survived the weekend incident free. Is something wrong with the universe? Well, maybe not ... there are still 2.5 hours to go ....
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