So,

Yesterday I was hanging out in the living room while Boychild was out back playing. With the back door open I can see the whole yard so he is pretty well supervised while still learning to be independent. Anyway, at some point nature called, and I ran to the bathroom for a minute. While in there I heard a scream, of pain. I know that sound from my baby and I knew that something hurt him. I went running out of the bathroom at the same time Hubby came running out of out bedroom. We both got to him at about the same time. Hubby picked him up and the poor things cheek was all swollen and scraped and there was blood coming out of his mouth. It seems he fell off of his tricycle.

We went into action quickly, washing his face off and putting a bit of ice into a sock to put on the swelling. Then we gave him some baby tylenol and spritzed a bit of chloraseptic onto his gums which were had stopped bleeding right away. Within seconds of the chloraseptic he was ready to go and wanted to go right back outside and onto the tricycle of death. He's such a boy.

The good thing that came out of the situation? Hubby didn't yell. Didn't scream. Didn't get mad at all. I was crying and apologizing to the Boychild for leaving him unattended. I was more upset than he was. Then I apologized out of habit to Hubby and he asked me if I was expecting him to yell. I said yeah, of course. I was irresponsible leaving him out there like that. He pointed out that I should search my feelings. "What more can I do than that?" he asked. "I don't know," I said, "but that never stops you from trying." I reacted badly and said something mean. When he was trying to be nice to me and point out to me that he wasn't upset with me. That I was upset with myself and he didn't need to be.

How did he react? He looked sad that I said that. He looked hurt. He looked at me long and hard, and then he said that we have new procedures and that it will take me time to get used to them. He kept his word. I didn't, and he didn't flip out about that either. And we made a bargain that if either of us are watching the Boychild, and has to leave the room, we will call the other one to watch him.

Life is good today.