Yesterday I was doing yoga in the living room
and Lex was sitting in his little rocker behind me. He likes to
watch me do yoga :) One second he was sitting there happily and
the next he was on the floor in tears. I’m guessing he
attempted an Evil Knievel move in between. He cried for a few
minutes and quickly developed a nice shiner under his eye.

Later, after his bath, he was on the
changing table and decided he didn’t want to be still… ended
up falling over sideways and hitting his ear against the edge
of the dresser. Cried again for awhile. Ears are pretty
sensitive. He was naked and crawled up on me for hugs. He sat
on my belly crying while I tried to console him and secretly
prayed he wouldn’t pee all over me!

Today we went to a Tot Lot program at a local gymnasium.
One of the playthings they had was a thick gym mat, cylendar
shaped and about 2 1/2 feet high. There were soft stairs and
ramp up to it, but nothing from the inside to use to get out.
Lex spent most of the hour and a half playing on this thing. He
learned pretty quickly that he couldn’t get out of it, but he
liked climbing the stairs, crawling around the top of the
cylandar, dropping partway into the middle and pulling himself
out again, etc. Of course, right at the end he falls in — head
first. I was a little ways away chatting with a friend of mine
(slacker mom, right??) I saw him go down and ran over. There
were several other mothers right there with their hands on
their kids at all times. They gave me such a “looser mom” look.
One lady commented to the other about how the poor baby was
going to have such a
huge mark on
his head. I felt like saying, “Yeah, it will complement the
black eye nicely!” Instead I took him back to the bench where
he cried for about a minute over the pain and then cried for
several more minutes over the fact that his teething biscuit
was all dirty and I wouldn’t give it back to him. Once I got
another biscuit out of my backpack, he jumped off my lap and
ran right back to the toy. Crazy boy! I decided it was time to
go home and get lunch instead :)

Luckily he has no marks from the ear or gym floor… just
the black eye. I have a prenatal appointment on Monday and it
wouldn’t look good to show up with a black and blue
toddler!