i do not expect to win mom of the year. this was totally scarey…and thought i was going to thrown up…and still do.
while emptying groceries the other day, ella was being fussy. (due to the fact that it was nap time and i was trying to get the groceries away.) so like any mom i pick her up and lug her around while putting things away.
well while throwing things in the refrigerator ella reaches for our christmas card on the door. awesome. so i pick it up…and attempt to find the magnet that went with it as well. literally 10 minutes searching for this thing…everywhere…no joke. totally boggled my mind where it went since i did not hear it hit the floor. i looked in the front pocket of e’s dress…not there…in the reusable bags i had on the floor…nope. under things…on thing…nothing. so i gave up. figuring if i CAN NOT find it…she can’t either…
so after all that shenanigans i put her down. and she looks up at me…i could have DIED….hell she could have…it was IN HER MOUTH…the entire 10 minutes. clearly she grabbed the magnet and not the card. i fished it out and all was fine but the “what if” kills me.
i am late telling this story…part of me said not to because i am mortified and fear that my interwebs will think i am a bad mom…but hell…maybe someone else had a close call too. and since this was my first legitimate close call…aside from the choking on smooshed peas…i will be classifying it under “close calls” hopefully there will not be too many posts in this category. ::side eyed::
i do not expect to win mom of the year…
Published January 17, 2010 close calls , ella , scary things 6 Comments
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OMG! Kerri- I would have died!!! Don’t beat yourself up though. It happens to the best of us, mama!!!
oh sweetie, that is scary but at this busy, ever smarter stage with baby, little slip-ups are bound to happen! don’t be so hard on yourself – we were all that age once after all, and we all got bumps and bruises and were no worse for the wear. if ella had actually choked on it you would have known right away and gotten it out. i totally understand being scared, but try not to beat yourself up – e is totally fine and you are a GREAT mom! xoxo.
my two year old sucked on a quarter this week. ugh.
thats really comforting mandy…so i should get use to this is what your saying? lol.
oh i hope not! that was a first for us as well!
I can’t even count all the what ifs I have had with both my girls, way to many to count, and we still get the “what ifs” to this day even with my 9 year old, heck the other day she was playing with a round brush a totally got it stuck in her hair, I had to cut apart the brush with snips, thought the hair was gonna’ go but saved it, thank god…. so you can’t stress over them, just go with the flow, and when they happen, the adrenaline kicks in and you know how to handle it! You’re a good MOM!