The Baby Version (or the Dumb Parent Version)!
I have not done several things over the last few weeks that I feel completely overwhelmed to tell you about!
Since Prince Charming and I are such seasoned parents (insert sarcasm) we would never do anything stupid that would ever put our child in any kind of unforseen danger. We are way too smart for that.
~I did not carelessly cave and let Ridley sleep in bed with me while we were out of town a few weeks ago. He did not proceed to roll out of bed in spite of my pillow barricades. I would never, ever do something so dumb! Nope, not me!
(Believe me. I won’t ever do that again!)
~Prince Charming was putting Ridley in his car seat at Panera the other day and the car seat did not flip backwards off the chair before our Little Man was strapped in. Nope! My engineering husband is certainly way too smart than to let something like that happen. Humph.
(Thankfully Ridley was in the car seat when it bumped the floor. He was just scared. I however was NOT happy with Prince Charming. But, I guess we’re even now.)
~Recently, some friends had us over for dinner. And as usual I packed three diapers along with all the other wonderful things that a baby needs. I did not forget to consider the fact that I fed Ridley prunes for 2 days and still hadn’t seen any “results.” He did not proceed to fill all three diapers while we were visiting. Nope! I did not almost panic as I wondered what in the world I could do…paper towels? tape?? Thankfully my sister and her husband did their baby registry at Target that day…do you know where I’m going with this? Yeah.
So, I did not proceed to use two newborn diapers on my eight month old baby. It was not hysterically funny! I was not completely humiliated that I so obviously did not have it together! Nope, not me! I’m such a newbie momma. sigh.
~After church last Wednesday night, we had some light refreshements to celebrate my Dad’s birthday. My sister was holding Ridley and I handed her a green apple slice that he could suck on. What was I thinking?? He has teeth now! My sister handed him over to another girl and before too long, she did not look at me and say, “I think he got some in his mouth.” I went over to him and I did not fish out not one piece of apple, but one. two. three. But he was still gagging. I did not feel like I was going to faint. I did not pick him up and give him one good Heimleich maneuver on his back and up popped the piece of apple.
I did not hold myself together at church because I didn’t want to make anyone feel bad. It was my own fault for not thinking through what could happen. I did not make it home to only bawl my eyes out. Nope, not me!
I’m just glad that I knew what to do.
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Oh, we all have those moments! That's why it's so wonderful that He is looking out for us at all times. 🙂
Oh, girl! Don't beat yourself up =) We have all done exactly what you have done! (And, if you want to snuggle with Mr. Ridley in bed again, just put pillows on the floor and barricaded on the bed).
Yes, I have forgotten to buckle my child in her rear-facing carseat and drove all the way home (while she proceeded to actually roll out of the seat onto the floor. Yes, I have made my child choke on foods b/c I wasn't watching. And the diaper thing??? Oh, girl! The times I have done that, and every other mother I know has done that!
You are a GREAT mom! And, Ridley is soooo lucky!
Love ya!
Amy
Goodness gracious! Poor girl! I was laughing at the McGyver diaper though! That was funny. I wasn't thinking one time and put too many pieces of bread in front jackson. He had put them all in mouth while I breifly turned my back. He gagged quite a bit, to the point that I unstrapped him, leaned him forward and smacked his back. Everything came out fine, leaving my stunned baby with watery red eyes 🙁
With apples, they are so hard to "gum" for babies, and jax only has 3 teeth. So I do what the gerber people do, I dice up a whole apple and put them in a jar with white grape concentrate. They get nice and soft and don't turn brown. after 2 days, I start spooing out servings for jackson to eat. They last quite a while like that. 🙂 But jax is almost 3 months older than Ridley – but you can keep this idea in the back in your mind 🙂
Oh the joys of parenting. We learn something new every single day. Laughing with you.
Hey–It happens! Don't beat yourself up, girlie 🙂
haha, i loved reading this! it's ok! i'm sure i'll have tons of dumb things to report once my little girl gets here! 🙂 Love ya!
Oh Myra! Isn't parenting a great adventure?!!?! You're just brave enough to admit your learning moments!
Too funny, I loved it!
Debbie
I do stuff like that all the time. Yesterday I put my son down next to a pair of scissors! I turned away for a minute and look over and he is holding them and licking them!
It's amazing there are as many people in the world as there are!
OH girl! Those things happen to all of us! 🙂 Unfortunately, they're usually frightening, and we pray that they never happen again! Before I started the Not Me Mondays, Caedmon pooped in his very last diaper at the doctor's office and stunk up the whole place! When we walked out, the receptionist was spraying Lysol everywhere!!! 🙂
LOL! Parenting is full of opportunities for guilt – good thing there's blogging so that we can all assure each other we've done the same things – and worse!!! 🙂