Rough Couple of Days

Well.....I had a rough couple of days as a Mom.

It started at my sister-in-law's house when we went there for Luke's birthday. I was in Lori's room changing Hunter's diaper. I changed his diaper, then was walking back into the living room when I remembered that I had left the diaper on a blanket on her bed. I didn't just want to leave the diaper in there, so I turned to grab the diaper. At that exact moment Hunter moved in an unexpected direction and the little guy came out of my arms. He was literally airborne for what seemed like eternity (but was probably only 1 second). Once again, my sports training saved my life....or Hunter's in this case! I managed to snag him back into my arms before he hit the ground. Scariest moment of my life! It was bad enough that it scared him and he was crying, and of course I was crying. Clint's sister ran in to check on me and she was then followed by her Mom, and then Clint came in. Thank goodness everything turned out fine, but I was sure shaken up for a little while.

THEN either that same night or the following night I was laying in bed. The monitor has a volume scale that is just a moving bar. I was so tired and couldn't go to sleep because I could hear Hunter's humidifier running in his room. So I took the monitor and turned it down one click. On the bar on the screen it looked like I had at least one or two more clicks of the volume so I thought I was just turning it down a little bit. Apparently I thought wrong. Clint wakes me up in the night and said 'Babe. He is crying." It scared me so bad. I jumped out of bed and ran in there. Thank goodness we always leave Hunter's door cracked and we leave our door cracked....and I am especially thankful that Clint couldn't sleep that night because otherwise who knows how long my poor baby would have been crying! :( I don't think he had been crying that long though because he didn't have any tears running or anything yet. Thank goodness for Daddy!

It was a rough stretch for Mommy and Hunter but we made it! I am sure at some point in his life I will do worse things, but my heart hurt so badly at the time. I am so thankful my little bug still loves me after that.