I am in the midst of some serious baby proofing and spring cleaning today. Hope is high speed and all over the place, it seems as though I could start cleaning and never stop. The laundry is never done and the floors are rarely spotless. But that doesn't stop our little piece of HVN.
We were with family lste last night so she is on her second nap of the day. Her naps allow me to run around like a crazy woman with vaccuum and mop in hand, moving beds and furniture to make sure the wood floors are free of allergins and dust!
If there was only a way in the midst of baby proofing to protect her from falls and bruises I would do it. She's pretty confident in pulling up and moving place to place. Her favorite spot is to pull up on the window sill where she saw Daddy doing yard work last week, each time although he's not there she call for him...Da Da, Da Da! Or maybe she realizes his truck is gone cause there are times when I ask her, Hope, where's Da Da?" She'll then wave bye bye as she knows he left for work of some other errand I have him on.
My point in this, was to rest for a moment, but also to share the hurt I feel when Hope falls. My heart breaks when I see croccodile tears and that lip turn and she's mummbling something very fast that I can't understand. I'm sure its something not so nice about the floor that hurt her. The mommy in me wants to rescue, protect and not put her down until she's smiling again...so thats what I do. I cuddle her, we go to the freezer and get her frozen Tigger thats for ouies and he seems to help quite a bit. For some reason she stops crying althoug she doesn't put him on her boo-boo, she eats him.
Never the less, she's pretty tough after a fall, some tears but not always. She finds comfort in being in our arms, nawing on Tigger and cuddling her favorite blanky that we can't leave home without. Today I read what a good thing it is for children to have those comforting things like blanky's and teddy bears....thats another blog to come!!!!
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You will do all the baby proofing you can do and there will still be boo boos to love away. It's a part of growing up.
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