I was feeding Adalane. I hear a sledding "noise" outside behind me, where the big ole pile of snow is...and I turned around to see what it was. Josh is out there by himself. I didn't see him so I continued feeding Adalane. I have two VERY VERY fussy babies today. VERY. One is teething and the other is the gassiest baby ever. I feel so bad for both of them because I can't do anything to make their pain go away, and I feel bad for me because I have had to do everything today with at LEAST one child screaming their head off. I get one calmed down and the next one starts. My kids all left the house because they are all tired of the screaming. :(
Anyway, so Adalane starts just playing with her bottle, and I'm still thinking about that noise. I stand up and start looking around to see if I can see Josh anywhere. I can't. Then over *there* I see his boot...and follow it up and there is, laying with his leg cocked this way, his head cocked the other way in an unnatural position. I watch to see if he's going to move and he isn't moving.
I put Adalane down so fast, and I flew out the back door and out into the snow in my socks, screaming "JOSH! JOSH!!!! JOSH!!!!!!" like a terrifed Mom, tears already streaming down my face, thinking that this day of crazy babies would be the day my baby gets seriously hurt.
He looked up, popped up, and said "What? I'm just waiting for Julia, bored. She said she'd be out in a few minutes." I was just crying then, because I was still so scared of what looked like an unconscious Josh.
And only just now has my heart rate returned to normal, and my focus and irritation to the baby who must be getting something in the boobjuice that makes her the gassiest, screamiest baby you've ever heard. The poor thing!
First of all, even if you don't have magical powers to take away all the things that are bothering them... those kids are super lucky and better off to have you looking after them and comforting them. Just imagine how they would feel if they had some totally cold and neglectful caretaker! As for your sanity... well, you might just have to wait a few more days til you are on vacation to have that restored!
ReplyDeleteMy mom totally freaked out about me once. My mom reads murder mystery novels and she came into my room and I was wearing a bright red shirt and I had fallen half off my bed but I was still asleep and she totally thought I was murdered and screamed when she saw me!!!