My Eventful Day

My daughter is too much like me! She is only 14 months old and has already racked up an impressive number of bloody lips and today she added to that list her very first bloody nose!

Babysitting at Rachel's house is far easier than being at my house most of the time because her baby-proofed loft is exponentially more Kai-proof than my house. It seems that at home Kai can get into everything no matter what precautions we have made. Today for the very first time she climbed onto the coffee table in the living room without assistance from any of her toys.

Sebastian is easier to watch, like his house is safer he just seems to be much more cautious. Watching the two of them is hilarious. They antagonize each other and chase each other, yesterday they spent about an hour playing tug-of-war with a blanket and just laughing. It is generally a fun and easy time with the two of them. Not so much today...

Kai was in an okay mood when we got to Rachel's, but after conquering the coffee table at home she was in an overly adventurous mood. She took to standing on the toys with wheels and trying to balance herself in the bin of blocks. Sebastian took the much safer route of watching her from a distance, he simply sat on my lap clutching his blanket and waited for her to entertain him.

Oddly she doesn't often get hurt when she totters precariously on clearly unstable objects. That wouldn't be fun. No instead she was standing still and somehow tripped herself onto her sippy cup when she gave herself a bloody nose. Sebastian ran over to where I held her in my lap, squatted down until they were face to face and began his babbling that I suppose she may understand because through her tears a weak smile emerged.

I called my cousin to find out exactly how one treats a bloody nose for a toddler. Apparently the most important thing to do is to remain calm. That is much easier said than done when your precious baby is bleeding in your lap. Then you pinch the bridge of the nose and lean them slightly forward. The bump from the sippy cup couldn't have been that bad since the bleeding subsided before I could do anything but I'm glad that I have that for future reference.

Thankfully Sebastian is far less clumsy than my daughter and he was happy to just watch rather than participate in her dangerous antics today. No matter how hard it is for me to watch my own daughter get hurt I have a feeling it would be much worse explaining to my friend that her son had given himself a bloody nose!