On Saturday, our little precious muffin decided to take a nose dive off the couch, inadvertently making contact with the coffee table.  You can see her bruise on the photo below.  Later that same day, she and her brother were playing tug of war and she lost the war, somehow getting a cut on the same side of her face and bruised the bridge of her nose. 

Yes, she looks like she was in a bar fight. 

And that is how she arrived at daycare this morning.  Good thing most of her bruises occur at daycare, so they know not to call CPS.  I often wonder how someone in a child care facility would know when a toddler is being abused.  Obviously, broken bones would be easy to spot, but what of the rest?

My kids have so many bruises just from not watching where they are going and running into walls or falling down.  I mean, they are my kids, so they were bound to inherit the klutzy gene.  I constantly had bruises on my legs and arms from looking one way and walking another.  I was just wayyyy to busy to pay attention to little things like that.  We won’t even go into the number of times I spilled my milk at the dinner table, since I would always reach for my glass and look in the opposite direction.  It was never a question as to “if” I would spill it each night…it was always “when” would I spill it.  “Get the towel…Stacy spilled her milk AGAIN…”

Hopefully someday soon they will start paying attention to what they are doing…it is summer, so those bruises are much more visible now.  Their little legs have varying shades of yellow, red and purple from old, new and in between bruises.  They are especially visible on our little Scandinavian glow-in-the-dark white kids. 

Anyone who has ever had a child would give you a knowing look, but I often wonder what people think who have never had kids.  If they think anything ill of you as a parent, I imagine they are the same people who think that when a woman has maternity leave it is a 2-3 month vacation.  Obviously, not having an opportunity to shower, eat or sleep is relaxing as heck!

Ah well, at least they heal quickly!