Jeff don't read this until you've read some other posts

I've changed my mind--I want a dog.


last night Leo chipped his tooth. his front tooth. he now has a scraggly front tooth. Really scraggly. When I saw that he had indeed broken his tooth when he fell the night before this morning had this moment where I almost started to get hysterical. For like 3 seconds I was like 'NO....NO...OH MY GOD...NO! THIS CAN'T BE-!!!" and then I was like "oh, it happened."
I hope he can keep the other front tooth until Jeff gets home. I told a bunch of strangers at the playground about him chipping the front tooth hoping that they'd just point to their toothless children and be like 'marble steps..they're a bitch". but instead every one just made a very painful face. one dad told me that his wife slammed his daughters finger in the car door and cut the top of it off. I was like "oh, that's wayyy worse" but then he pointed out that they found the finger and were able to put it back on.

I didn't tell Jeff yesterday when he called that Leo has fallen and hurt himself twice since he left. Once at the library on saturday and once last night. The library thing was horrible too--he was getting up on a tiny little kids chair and I went to get a toy for him and he fell backwards off of it and hit his head against another chair and a giant blue goose egg in between his eyes. I started crying when I saw it and went up to the librarians to show them. I don't know why. of course they are unmarried and barren old maids--they would be no help. But it turns out they weren't--librarians are very modern now-and they gave me an ice pack for Leo. Leo held it on himself. That's how bad it hurt. Now he's got a little bruise on the bridge of his nose.

And then last night he ran out of the tub and slipped on the floor and face planted. I would have cried then but my friend Jon was over so instead I just held Leo while I said "i'm a horrible parent....I knew he was going to fall...I'm a horrible parent". Then I put Leo to sleep and started the dishwasher but we were out of detergent so I used just normal dish washing soap and the kitchen flooded with soap. turns out you can't do that.

There has also been a lot of burning of Leo's food. Just twice actually. but otherwise--things are great.