Saturday, July 16, 2016

Journal Excerpt

Dear Esme,

Your main interest in life seems to be giving me heart attacks. You cannot ambulate on a flat surface, but you see no reason why you can’t do so down a flight of stairs. God forbid we attempt to carry you down the stairs or make you go down belly-down feet-first.

You like to head-dive off the edge of couches, suck on the ends of bottles of toilet cleaner, and today you noticed I was mopping and immediately slid over to lick the soapy floor. You specialize in finding trachea-sized items despite our childproofing attempts—small shells, fake coins, lego pieces, marbles—which you then enjoy rolling around in your mouth mysteriously until someone freaks out and makes you spit it out.

We got through three kids without needing gates for the stairs or covers for all the sockets. Now I’m figuring out why those were invented.

Love,

Mommy

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