An Almost Accident

Accidents have the opportunity to be great; they yield favorable, unpredictable outcomes. (cures for diseases in the lab, cooking, photographs...I think you get the point. I just love those outcomes...) BUT, in other cases, the outcome is ugly any way you look at it.  We had an 'almost accident' the other week. The outcome would have been....ugly.  It 'almost happened'.  It caused my heart and head great emotional worry for a few hours, then it subsided. Later on, out of the blue, Austin recreated the 'almost accident scene' with his vehicles and hailed me over to 'come look, mama'.  I was surprised at the accuracy, although he added two vehicles to the 'scene'.  

This is his scene...

As you most likely have figured out, my vehicle is the grey one, T-boning the orange vehicle. What had happened, in real life, was that Michael was driving my car, with me in the front passenger seat, Ethan immediately behind me, and Austin in the middle backseat.  We were following another vehicle, a junky SUV, that had slowed down, and we had assumed, like anyone else would have, that it was slowly veering to the right to make a right hand turn.  So, we slowed down, too.  What we did not think of, was that this IDIOT was veering to the right in order to turn sharply to the left to turn around and go the other way.  Did I mention idiot?  So, Michael (thank GOD he was paying attention and not looking at the cows like Austin and I were), slammed on the breaks and kept our vehicle from hitting theirs.  The guy was stunned, like he was surprised to see us there.  I'm still amazed I kept my mouth shut as far as profanity goes....According to the picture, we hit the junker and the ambulance and police car showed up... 

Again, there was no accident, no other vehicles showed up. 

Whew.  That was a close one.

Brotherly Love...

A photo I took of the boys yesterday.  Love it!

4 Months

Ethan had his well baby check last Thursday, and he weighed in at 14 pounds, 8 ounces, and measured 25.5 inches.  He rolled over on his 4 month birthday...so he can go back to front, and from front to back.  Now he makes his *new sound* ... spitting or whatever it's called with the tongue kind of out and making noise and lots of drool all over his face.  It's pretty funny!  He loves to stare at Austin, watching his every move.  I'm uber-excited to see their relationship grow!!! He's sleeping in his crib as of April 20th and doing well with the transition.  Austin is excited to be sharing a room, and gets excited talking about bunk beds.  I can't wait to go in their room in a few years and find them huddling under the sheets with a flashlight.  How cool....!

Sitting, Standing, Outside...

Austin has been better at his potty training.  He has gone through stages where he is totally interested, and we think "Yeah, here we go, this is it!" But then he loses interest as fast as he gained it.  The past week he's been wearing underwear to school and continues to wear them at home...he accompanied me to Ethan's 4 month well baby check last week in them and did fine.  We went to WalMart after school and he did fine.  He's had maybe 2 accidents peeing in his underwear, and about 4 pooping accidents.  Even if he gets the tiniest skidmark in the underwear he refuses to put them on and has to get a clean pair.  The other day Michael had him go pee standing up - outside - and he thought it was the greatest thing. Peeing like a man.  So, I tried having him stand up in front of the big potty, and he did great!  Now he wants to stand up all the time.  It's cute how he sticks his belly out to go, leaning a bit foward (can't really grab anything to aim yet)....I'm amazed it all ends up in the potty!