4 Miles

I just heard Will singing a song he made up:

Obey children, Obey children
Even if you don't want tooooooo
Obey children, Obey children
Because you have toooooo!

I was prepared for very different boys. I was looking forward to seeing how different Alex would be from his brother (my own genetics experiments, right here!!! And they're NOT fruit flies–if you didn't take Genetics, you wouldn't understand but kids are MUCH better than fruit flies, I promise!). 

I wasn't surprised to see that Alex is a runner. He has no caution, he just GOES. I wasn't surprised to discover he's a climber.  Last week Alex figured out how to climb on the piano bench. Later I heard a different sound than fingers playing a few keys. I looked over to see him climbing up ON the piano to reach the radio that sits on top.  He has also figured out how to climb up onto the computer chair and then up on the desk to try to get a pen out of the pen box that sits next to the printer. (We now keep the piano bench pushed in unless I'm there to supervise "music lessons", and the desk chair must be pushed in when not in use. Though then he walks over and turns off the computer. But that's another issue.)

Today while coming into the house from the garage, Alex tripped and fell.  Loud crying began, so it wasn't a "normal" (gentle) fall.   I was thinking it would be Goose Egg Sized Bump on His Head #3, but instead it was Alex's First Bloody Nose. (They do not make scrap book stickers for either of these. Maybe I should start a line!) As I was holding him and trying to stop the blood, I was thinking of all the things Alex has already gone through that Will never had at this age–and in most cases still as not. 

• Hospital stay and various things that went along with that…including surgery and stitches
• 2 falls that resulted in GIANT bumps on his head
• Blackened toe nail that we're still watching to see if it'll stay on or fall off
• Now the bloody nose

Nice that that list isn't that long (though if I was going for true sympathy I'd probably split up all the things that happened at the hospital, but that's not quite fair) –but he's not even a year and a half old yet!!!

Yet, I suspect our list of injuries will only be getting longer.