Lost Cause

The kid is a disaster. 

He's a lost cause. 

He needs a helmet and a padded room.

All of his accidents happen so fast I don't even really know what he falls on/over.  

On Tuesday we came home from running errands/playing outside while the cleaning lady was here and on our way in the door he tripped over his own feet (b/c the house was clean - hence cleaning lady).  On his way down he hit/slammed his head into the wooden steps.  He got an immediate goose egg. It was huge.  It had me (and the cleaning lady) pretty freaked out. We tried to put ice on it to no avail.  I ended up calling the pediatrician b/c I don't know if it's normal for kids to hit their head so much and have it swell up so big and so quickly.  Apparently it is. The doctor just said to come in to the office after an hour if he wasn't acting normal.  

 Within a half hour he was back to normal.

He copied his sister and climbed into the tower and then onto the counter.  I caught him trying to make a cup of coffee b/c Andrew has him make coffee with him most mornings. Miss M had a paper cup she was drinking water out of and as she showed me I asked her where she got it. She responded with the cabinet which I knew the answer upon asking. I asked her what her brother was doing b/c I heard noises I didn't really like hearing. She responded with "being naughty". Well she always thinks he's being naughty so after walking into the kitchen I grabbed him off the counter and moved the tower. He inevitably moved it back and screamed at me for quite some time. He prefers to get his way.

 The next day (Today - Wednesday) he was coming down the stairs to the living room. He made it down the carpeted stairs and after getting on the landing safely he tried to walk down the two wooden stairs (same two he ran into yesterday) by himself. He face planted onto the floor. I didn't see this happen but I can only imagine that this is how it went down since I found him on his face on the floor. I didn't need to ask him where he got hurt b/c once again he got a goose egg within seconds. I am not going to be able to take him in public pretty soon.  The sample woman at Costco already commented on his bruise Tuesday.

He must have been feeling pretty bad/sad/tired because he grabbed Miss Cate's blanket to chew on when usually he finds it on the ground and wants you to give it to her.

He seriously needs a padded room and a helmet until he gets control of his legs or the size of his head catches up with the rest of his body.