Burns:(

Well, neither of my babies ever came close to being burned by anything, until the last few weeks. And now, thanks to yours truly, they both did.

A few weekends ago I was sewing something I can't talk about yet, (it's a future gift) and had to use the iron. So I put Cason in his jumper, because I needed to do it on the ground, since it's kind of a large "item". When I was done I turned the iron off, and after a while I let Cason out of his jumper, thinking it had had plenty of time to cool. So then of course he touched the iron when I wasn't looking, and it was clearly still hot. He cried for a while, and had little burns on 3 of his fingertips.

Now today, I was a genius again. I went to cook dinner, and Paige wanted to help. She pushed her Rock'n'Roar Dinosaur up against the wall, to use it as a stepstool, and started helping me stir. I told her it was hot, and tried to get her to stir in an empty pot, but she kept trying to really help me.

So I decided I'd move the pot to the far burners where she couldn't reach it. But instead of getting her down FIRST, I turned off the burner, and went to move the pot to a new one further back. As I moved it, she tried to follow and keep stirring, and lost her balance. So she fell with her left forearm against the burner. Luckily she fell right off, to the ground, instead of keeping her arm on the burner for more than a second. It was so sad. I put her arm in a bowl of coolish water, and she'd stop crying while I did that.

After a little while, she fell asleep. I looked closely, and it didn't have any blisters, but it looked like the outer layer of skin had peeled away, and her arm was really red around it. So when she got up we went to the emergency clinic. She hasn't acted like it hurts since she got up from the nap, other than to tell me she has an ouchie. Or that it was hot. :( But no crying or anything. They put some cream on it and wrapped it in gauze, and gave us a prescription for the same stuff.

Long story short, I'm incredible, and I feel great about myself right now. I'm not sure if it's better or worse that I was inches away when they each got burned.

Jess got her a Tiny Toons dvd to cheer her up. I couldn't even get her to look away for the picture. She just held up her arm for me, and kept watching. She also enjoyed some salt and vinegar chips to distract her. Yes, she loves them.
Anyway, I must include some sort of happiness, so here's some fun with a headband earlier today, preburn.
And a cute one of my boy.