A few days ago, Asher brought the dish rack down upon his head, and I was so scared he was hurt. Today, he got snotties on his shirt, so I took it off him and sent him upstairs to get a new shirt. I was "indisposed in the ladies room" when I heard him start to cry. I called up to him and dashed upstairs. The dresser fell over on him. Trent had hung some shirts on hangers off the front of Asher's dresser, making the front very heavy. Fortunately when it fell over, it landed on the edge of Trent's bed. Yes, Asher got knocked over, but he didn't get caught underneath.
Now if that wasn't enough, I have a baby monitor up on top of my computer desk. Asher came along and grabbed the wire and pulled the monitor onto his head. Stuart picked it up and put it back up, and Asher did it again.
SIGH - So I said, "Will that boy live?"
Myles pipes in - "Mum, I was run over by a car, and I lived to be 14. I'm sure he's going to live." Ummm Hummm, Myles:
got run over by a car,
locked himself into a toy chest,
wrapped dental floss around and around and around his neck,
locked himself into a Coleman cooler, l
ocked himself into the trunk of a car,
nearly froze to death on the hill out by the dugout,
been thrown from Aragorn and landed on a big rock,
had his finger nearly chopped through by Trent,
broken his collar bone in a pillow fight.........
Yep, Myles has made it this far.. I guess Asher's doing fine in comparison.
My sweety came home from work this evening, all nicely dressed in his office attire. He sat down next to me as I nursed and we said our hellos. Asher crawled up onto daddy's lap for a cuddle, and began to pick his nose.. and promptly wiped his finger off on daddy's nice pants!
I was talking to my mum on the phone tonight, one of the topics we discussed was the blood curdling scream she heard from a dog in her building - probably got stepped on or caught in a door. So as we were talking, I was washing dishes and had just finished a load and was starting to put things away. Asher wanted to climb onto the counter, but instead of grabbing the edge of the counter, he grabbed the edge of the dish rack and brought the whole thing down on me and on himself. Dishes crashed to the floor, I let out a scream as I got hit in the arm and shoulder and told mum I had to go.
I picked up Asher and carried him away and hugged him as we both dealt with the shock of the event. He's fine, not a scratch or bruise on him, but he sure was scared. I have a sore shoulder and a sore wrist.
Poor mum. I called her back as soon as Asher was calm. She was very shaken by my scream and sudden hang up, she had no way of knowing what had happened or if we were ok. -
Sadly, I lost some Sabbath dishes and a Yom Teruah glass plate from Israel.. but that's just stuff. Asher is Ok and that's all that matters to me. (I had to learn that over time.. I wasn't always like this.. the older boys often got into trouble for breaking things instead of getting my comfort and sympathy when they should have)
I can't help it, these pictures of Asher are just so cute, I have to show you all of them, even though many of them are similar... each one is just slightly different, and slightly more cute.
Actually this is his second banana, his first banana was on Tuesday in the van, this photo was taken Wednesday. Can you believe it, this kid has - until now - refused to eat bananas!
What Happened? I give birth to a baby, and suddenly Janney and Asher have matured overnight.
Janney has been pouring juice for herself and Asher all day, no need to call mama or brothers anymore, she's taking care of this small chore. Not only that, she spilled some juice powder a few minutes ago, went straight to the vacuum, plugged it in and vacuumed it up... then Asher spilled liquid juice, she called me, instead of vacuuming that up (praise God! I've had enough vacuum troubles recently!)
Asher came to my room as I was nursing Elias in the chair. There were some folded items on the bed.. just a few. I asked him to put away the face cloths, thinking it didn't matter if they made it to the right place or not, didn't really matter if they ended up unfolded. Well, he got them in the right cabinet, he can't reach the proper shelf, but they're away. Then he came back into the bedroom and continued to put away the various piles in the right (or almost right) places.
And after Janney had finished vacuuming up the juice crystals, Asher was coiling the wire on the back of the vacuum.
And then they just helped me to flip the load of laundry from the washer to the dryer and the dryer into the basket and take it to my room.
We have the cutest courrier service. The printer is next to my computer, but Stuart often prints things from his computer in the other room. Asher loves to wait for the papers to get spit out of the printer, and run them into daddy's office. Often he doesn't wait for the whole print job, so he runs back and forth until the printer stops spitting out paper.. lol
The other day, when I was in the grocery store, I needed a bag of flour. I pointed to the one I wanted and Rourke picked up the bag and put it in the bottom of the cart for me.
Asher - not wanting to be left out, pulled a bag off the shelf too and it landed on his lap when his bum hit the floor. He picked himself up and picked up that huge bag of flour and brought it the 3-4 steps over to the cart and tried to put it next to Rourke's bag.
Daddy decided, after so much effort, that Rourke should take his bag off, and that we'd take Asher's bag. Asher needed a little help getting the bag onto the shelf at the bottom of the cart, which Rourke provided.. and in the process, the poor guy smacked his face against the frame of the cart. But he was so cute, all full of white flour.. and he deserved such a big hug for his big efforts.
Asher is sitting eating breakfast, he's watching Kids CBC. Patty and Captain Claw just pulled some items out of the water with a fishing net. There are three items, I only saw a spinning top, so I don't know what the other three items were. The emphasize the first sound of each item and try to figure out which letter each of the items starts with. They ask the kids in the audience what letter they all start with.. and before they could give the answer, Asher called out "T".
YAY, I'm so excited. That's the second letter he's learned the sound of. He made the "guh" sound the other day and said "G guh G guh". Pretty cool in a 2 1/2 year old!
Header Banner photo of wild oats taken by Trent. background wallpaper is my concept, but Trent's technical abilities.~~~~
I am Sombra, and these are the stories from our house. We're a Messianic family where academics often take a back seat to the work and adventure of life.
