The First Big Hurt

It had to happen some time to one of them: the first "big hurt" of childhood. The image is of Sammy in the emergency department about 25 minutes after getting her upper lip sutured earlier this morning. She's doing fine now but, understandably, very tired.

Isaac Newton said "a body in motion tends to remain in motion unless acted upon..." by the upper lip. She fell while running across a part of the home she's been in daily since she could walk. Except last night she stopped herself with her face. It looks almost inconsequential until you notice it crosses from the face onto the lip itself. So we got to meet the friendly plastic surgeon.

As a parent, you know someone is going to get hurt sooner or later. But you expect (at least we did) that it would be something dramatic like getting hit with your first baseball or falling in the park, not a measly fall in the kitchen. 

Basket Cases

Robert and Samantha are complete basket cases! Here they are from earlier in the month sharing the toy basket and watching television. Very often they sit separately, in their own basket.

What is it about wicker baskets? They also have an affinity for our table linen basket, a round basket of approximately 2.5 feet tall. They love to topple it over, and roll it around. Sometimes they just crawl inside. This evening we watched in awe as they learned how to topple it and pick it up by its ends (top and bottom) and carry it around the dining room. 

To watch them work is like watching an army of ants. For tiny infants, they are capable of amazing tasks, lifting and moving heavy objects. Samantha likes to pull the parrot's cage around with Robert hanging off the side!

We watch in wonder of their accomplishments.

A Blast From The Past

One of the challenges parents face is keeping up with hundreds of pictures of their kids. We're no different. We try our best to share the best images and videos electronically through email or this blog but, every so often, something falls through the cracks. The film below is a good example.

"Grandparents Visit 2008" was filmed when the children were just a couple of months old. This was their first time seeing Nana and Pop Pop (Ron & Barbara), during their visit to New York for their 50th anniversary celebration. The film sat around for a long time in an unused camera. A year has passed and it's time to take a look.

It's amazing to compare this footage, where they are so tiny and helpless, to the footage in the preceding post. Enjoy.

Grandparents Visit 2008 from Robert Kerner on Vimeo.