My boy!

Amie - posted on 10/29/2008 ( 2 moms have responded )

Hi everyone. My lil man was born September 28th, 2004. As the only boy in the family at the moment (we have another one due March 26th,2009 boy also) he sticks to dad pretty tightly. He has one older sister (Nicole) and one younger (Caitlin). His older sister has caused our hearts to wrench a few times but so has Jonathan. (Caitlin so far hasn't!) I can remember just after his 2nd birthday at gramma and gramps house. There's this one corner of their counter top that he was able to run right underneath. Well he grew pretty much over night, as growth spurts tend to do to kids, and the next day he went running after his older sister and dented his head pretty good on that same corner. Amidst screams we checked and he was ok. Just had a nasty goose egg for a couple days. He never really went through the terrible twos, he was pretty toned down. Then three hit and this was our year of terror. haha! It started with him breaking his leg just one month before his 3rd birthday. He had been tearing around the house again with his older sister and had slipped and fallen. His leg twisted under him causing a hairline fracture. We didn't even think anything was all that wrong but he was refusing to walk after that and all he'd say was mommy no ow. So we took him to the doctor and after the X-rays was when we found out it was broken. So fast forward the month to his birthday which is also the day the doctor said his cast could come off. So what does this stupid doctor do? He scarred my little boy! Jonathan now has a scar up his leg from the saw they use to cut off casts as the doctor pushed to hard on it and caused a deep burn in his skin. When he was screaming that it hurt I asked the doctor to stop but he said it was normal for small kids to freak out like that. So much for believing doctors! pfftt. So when 5 months later he did it again, to the very same leg, we took him somewhere else. Gramps actually was the one who took him as he was babysitting while we were both working. Gramps and dad are Jonathan's idols so while he was upset Gramps was there so he wasn't too bad. Gramps did tell me when I got home that he felt like smacking the doctor. haha! I guess after being explained the situation the doctor was good with Jonathan but while putting on the cast started asking gramps if he thought we were abusing Jonathan. He exploded I guess and told the doctor in no uncertain terms that if he even thought we were abusing our kids he'd rip them out of our house and take them home with him. hahaha! OH btw Gramps is Ryan (my fiance's) dad. To continue the year of terror Jonathan also fell down a flight of cement stairs, land flat on his back off a 5 foot high slide and also in the middle of winter (in Canada it's bloody cold out) got up from a nap with dad while I was at work and snuck out of the house! I freaked out when I got home and couldn't find him. Turns out our neighbors had him but decided not to tell me as they saw me going through the neighborhood screaming for him and looking. Ryan went to our daughter's school ( 1 1/2 blocks away) to see if he'd wandered that way but no luck. We got him back about a half hour later when the cops brought him across the street. I still refuse to talk to those neighbors. I'm glad they noticed and took him inside but they could have told me they had him at least when they saw me. Now he's four and developing quite the personality. He's very independent and likes to help around the house. He's even tried to do dishes but I stopped that quick as more water ended up on my floor than anywhere else. =) He's a good big brother to his younger sister and becoming quite a pain to his older sister. haha! They rough house a lot and I'm surprised they've never hurt each other anymore than some bruises. He definitely keeps me on my toes that lil man of mine! =)