The Boisvert Life

Ok, here comes another bad mommy story.

I claim to be a pretty darn good mommy most of the time, not too uptight, nor too lax; I give her plenty of stimulation and fun interaction and such on a regular basis . . .

Well, today, I was very, very bad indeed. I was checking my email and letting Lindsay play on the guest bed as usual, keeping an eye on her as usual, she was rolling around as usual, playing with her toys as usual, and then something not usual at all happened. I heard a THUNK.

*CRINGE*

No more Lindsay on the bed!

*GASP*

She had rolled herself off of the opposite side of the bed! I raced around to the other side of the bed and there she was, laying on the floor, looking at me with a stunned expression on her face as if to say, “Ok, I was just playing with my yellow block just then, and then the world turned upside down, and now I’m here on the hard floor with the wind knocked out of me. Why is that mommy?”

And then the crying started. Long hard sobs as I scooped her up and she buried her face in my shoulder. I of course have spent the rest of the day appologizing to her, feeling terrible, and she seems to have forgotten the whole incident ever happened. In fact, this evening, she continued to attemp to roll off of the bed while her daddy and I played with her! But we each had a side covered, so she was safe.

So, as you can imagine, she will no longer be going on the bed while I read my email, even for a few seconds, unless I am physically on the bed with her, blocking all rolling paths. I’m sure there will be worse trauma to come, especially when she starts trying to walk, but seeing as how this was her first big “accident”, and that it was my fault for putting her on the bed, it was a momentus occasion for both of us. Luckily she’s absolutely fine, not even a bump or bruise to show for it, but it does influence my future decisions on where to lay her down, let me tell you!