mute buttons and cracked heads

Why don't preschoolers come with a mute button? That way they can babble and scream and chatter all they want and I don't have to hear it. Alex is getting on my last nerve today. Not really sure why, maybe because I'm tired I have a head cold and a sinus headache that comes and goes. Being asked the same thing 5 times even if I answered the first time it driving me nuts. Most days I can ignore it but today it's just pushing buttons.I sent both boys up for naps early. We're going to Longwood gardens for dinner as well as to see the Christmas displays. We're going with some of the playgroup families. But I invited my Aunt along. So she and her family are joining us as well. I think they decided to do it because it's on the way to Chambersberg where my uncle's family is and they spend Christmas with them ever year. Last year we went to Longwood but during the day so we didn't get to see everything lit up. I'm looking forward to it.

I've decided I'm not going to be surprised if I end up taking one of the boys to the emergency room one day for a cracked head. Within an hour of each other last weekend they both landed on their heads. Quin was first. We keep the door to the basement closed now because he can scoot across the floor pretty fast. Well I went to use the bathroom glanced at the door it looked closed. Ken was in the front room. I guess the door wasn't latched and the cat had been downstairs. He pushed the door open. Quin likes to walk up the stairs now he does this with the help of an adult because he still can't walk by himself. I guess he decided he was going to go downstairs and try it himself. I hear "mommy look what Quinton's doing" which is a familiar refrain in this house and usually means he's into Alex's toys. Then I hear a loud cry. Ken got there first. Luckily he must have rolled down and the stairs are carpeted. He only had a slight knot on the back of his head.Like I said not an hour later Alex took a header of the back of the couch. He was jumping on it and launched himself over the back. Thank god he's been in gymnastics class the entire fall, he knew how to curl himself up as he landed. He actually only hurt his foot when it hit the train table on the way down. I just know now that an emergency room visit is in our future.

I'm amazed both kids are leaving the tree alone, well mostly, sometimes Alex likes to rearrange the ornaments. The only thing he insists on is that I light it when we come down in the morning.