Child Abuse

For the record: my son abuses himself.

A week ago today, after JMS took a bath he went running into his bedroom....NAKED BABY...and jumped into his pile of oversized stuffed animals...and SLAM...he head butted the wall.

On Sunday night after dinner, JMS was playing around in the living room and went to jump on the couch...slipped and bashed his face into the front of the couch. No broken nose...but some bloody boogers.

On Wednesday night after his bath (we avoided slipping) JMS was dressed in his pajamas...and bolted out of his bedroom (as he usually does)...and slammed into the wall. Ok...the wall didn't give this time either...and bounced him back. He now has a lump on his left side of his head by his temple.

You think he'd learn...well, on Thursday morning he went running out of his bedroom again, and I said, "JMS, watch out for the wall." He stopped in his tracks and had a look of horror on his face. He said, "Mommy, wall." And, he came running back and clung to me. I told him to tip toe by the wall and he'd be fine. So, now we tip toe through the upstairs hallway.

Oh, and he came home from the babysitter's on Wednesday with a rug burn on the tip of his nose. We don't quite know how that happened...but its all scabbed up and he looks like Rudolph the Reindeer.

Poor kid.