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I recently discovered we have entered into a new parenting phase.

The "I can't always keep you safe" phase.

It's stressful.  I am not sure I do well with not knowing what to do in situations.

A week or so ago Miss M feel off the playground equipment. Minimal damage was done.

She wants to crawl back and forth on the couch and luckily each time she's fallen off I have helped her fall off and kept her relatively safe.

She wants to climb on everything and yet doesn't have a desire to learn how to get back down.

Yesterday we went to the park. Miss M and I were doing the same things we do every day at the park.  I wasn't on my phone. I wasn't distracted. I was just watching her.

I was a half step too late.

I think she tripped and ended up parallel with the ground.  The problem was that being parallel to the ground with where she was meant that she was going over the foot and a half concrete wall...onto her head. All I could do was scream. It was horrible. I can't stop replaying the disaster in my head. My heart hurt way more than her head (or tongue).

She cried a lot.  She had blood in her mouth.

I didn't know what to do. Thankfully there was a lady at the park whom I spoke to last week and she helped me figure out that Miss M's blood was from biting her tongue and not knocking out any of those pearly whites we have worked so hard to grow.

She appears to be fine this morning but my heart still hurts.

I imagine this isn't the last of disasters.

Here are the battle wounds on her head.