Black and Blue

On Monday I was at a ladies house and Huck had climbed onto a small rocking chair and was standing up facing backwards. His sister Little Miss was sitting on the front. One of the ladies saw it and gasped and Little Miss thinking she was in trouble jumped up, which caused the rocking chair to tip backwards and Huck fell smacking his head on the low windowsill.

Previous to this he had tipped forward on the asphalt and then feel and

cut his lip on the stroller.

Ken said we are just going to place him in a helmet until he learns to be more steady.

Maybe 5 or 6 years old.

Should I tell you that today Huck was sitting in his highchair and decided he was done. Since Daddy was busy working at the computer a few feet away and was ignoring his requests (ie. grunts) to pull off his tray he decided to take matters into his own hands. This meant wiggling out of his seat (the tray was on people), climbing on to his tray.

This was about the moment Ken looked up...only to see his one year old stand up on the tray and jump off or rather down. Huck landed on his feet. Well sort of. He landed doing the splits. But he didn't land the opposite, which would have been his head.

So now what do we do? Helmet? Wrap the kid in bubble wrap? Boy are we in for it!