Heart attacks and six packs. Oh, and flan.

I've seen my sister get so mad she passes out.  I've heard about nieces and/or nephews hitting their heads and passing out.  I've even almost passed out, once.

But I never saw my own kid do it.  Wait, I take that back.  Quin choked to non-breathing, once.  That was fun.

Natalie missed the bench when she tried to alley-oop onto the tramp and instead rammed her ribs into the bars. 

Fortunately, she was somehow able to make it to the back door where she stood sort of gasping.  In a matter of blurred milliseconds, I somehow made it from the stove, where I was standing, to the back door, a good 15 ft. away.  In this amount of time, I watched my daughter stumble backwards a step or two, then completely topple over.  Not a sort of crumple to the ground fall, a standing tall to a great big flat-out fall.  I heard her head hit the ground. 

Before I knew it, I was holding her, assessing her breathing, watching her eyes roll back into her head, and sort of frantically asking her if she could breath (she was starting to make sounds) getting ready to put all of my years of first aid training to the test.  Her head was floppy for a minute but then she started crying and asking me what happened.

In that short amount of time, she said she had a dream.  She said she thought what was happening wasn't real, that she thought she was thinking it would suck if that DID happen, and that she was late for a bus or something.  Guess the mind does funny things when it takes over for a person.

She's got a nice goose egg, and upon examining her rib area, realized my little girl's got abs any female would envy.  Six pack envy.  Not kidding.  Sheesh.

Oh, and I'm making flan for the first time, hence the standing by the stove. 

It's been quite an eventful last couple hours.  ;)

Natalie, the fearless:

You remind me of the babe...

I'm a little sad, tonight.

I just issued my last first haircut. 

*sniff*

Matt said he was going to mop my kitchen floor with Owen's head. 

Though, tempting as it was to get my floor cleaned, I chose option B.

And we went from this:

"Ladies Man"

To this:

"What on earth did you do to me, woman?!"

(If you look real close, you can see his first little toothie on the right.)

It looks darker in pictures than it does in real life - I fear he's going to be a blondie, afterall.

I loved having two brownies!

*sniff*

Oh, well.  I guess we'll have to see how it grows back out.

And for the record, I opted to not keep any of his hair.  Why? Because I was thinking about it last night, and really, that's just gross.  Might as well keep his first toe nail clippings or his first booger.  hahaha

I found Andur's first lost tooth and I have to say - EW.  So, no more hair-keeping.  That's just weird, if you think about it.  And I did.  So I'm not gonna.  ;)

Bright

My son, my oldest son, is a smart kid. 

This boggles my mind when he does something like give his little brother a wipe to, you know, do his bidness in the bathroom... and comes out of the bathroom with the LYSOL wipes in his hand asking if I only give him one.

It's then that I find myself saying things like, "Are you kidding me? Really??"

Sheesh.