I didn’t want my dear friend to feel alone. Children falling off of things happens to all of us. Luckily, they’re resiliant little buggers.
On Wednesday, I was putting a screeching Ben into his car seat, which I had (against all advisories on the car seat itself) on top of the couch. As Eric walked into the living room, trying to clear a small path through the piles of fabric on the floor, he grumbled, “Maybe we can take a half an hour when we get home and clean up the fabric from the floor?”
As I turn to give him a dirty look (again, GO SMART MAMA BRAINS!), I hear a THUMP! Ben had fallen, head first, out of the car seat and off of the couch onto…THE GIANT PILE OF FABRIC ON THE FLOOR.
Best reason to never, ever clean again.
Or, you know, not turn my back on Ben when he’s on the couch by himself.
I’m going to go with the no cleaning thing.
My Mom and I managed to let Sweet Pea roll off the couch at 4 weeks. No fabric to catch her. A very sad day. You and J aren’t alone by any stretch of the imagination…I think rather you are just brave enough to admit the truth. The eyes in the back of Momma’s heads to not magically appear when the child is delivered. They appear slowly over time.
{{{HUGS}}} and thank God for random piles of fabric.
Thank you! Your place sounds like mine. I’m in total agreement with the cleaning bit. If I hadn’t picked up all the piles of clothes that were next to my bed, she would have had a soft landing.
ITA with Jenn. Im glad the fabric was there!
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Awww, poor Ben! Glad the fabric was there to cushion his fall. We all do silly stuff like that and our babies will get bumps and bruises but they will survive. I think it hurts us much longer than it does them.
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I’d go with no cleaning too! Glad he’s okay
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