Ouchies

Mark got into a car accident Friday night. He's ok, but his car is probably totaled. I felt it was important to explain to Ethan what was going on, since mama and papa were going to be upset, and papa's red car wasn't going to be around anymore. So I pulled out Ethan's toy cars, and showed him how Mark's car had run into a car in front of him. Ethan understood immediately that papa's car had an 'ouchy', and even learned the word 'accident'. He then reinacted the crash using his hands, showing one hand running into the other, repeatedly, saying 'papa car accident, mama car accident no.' (picture the no as a long noooo with a few shakes of the head). We also took Ethan along yesterday to look at new cars. He decided that papa should get a black car, although Mark doesn't necessarily agree.

Meanwhile life goes on. At 8:30 this morning (Sunday), as I was standing underneath the slides at the park, trying to keep from getting wet in the 40 degree weather, realizing just how much my life has changed. My friend Lisa says that there is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing. I like her attitude. Only today it was bad weather, AND we had inappropriate clothing. Oh well, so he got sopping wet on the slide -- isn't that what driers are for? Have to burn off energy somehow. When we were kids, we'd just go running outside in our neighborhood, even if it was raining. Now I'm spending my days, driving around, looking for places indoors where he can find other kids and get exercise. Something's not right here.

Later today Ethan goes to his first birthday party (indoors, with other kids, and exercise -- yipee!)