you know how they say disasters come in threes? well, that definitely has been proven at the bytheway household this past week.
i came home from a lovely trip to utah where i got to see lots of family, show off elliott, with the only downside being that justin had to stay behind. justin picked me up after a fairly decent flight and we made it home without a hitch.
thursday night justin was on his way home from a meeting around 9ish when our car’s thermometer needle went from its seemingly permanent home right between hot and cold to all the way on the hot side of the dial. and then it started spewing out smoke. yikes. luckily he made it home, going on slowly as he could, with smoke pouring our of the hood just like in a sitcom. when he opened the hood he found a crack all the way from one side to the other of the radiator. with the scooter as our only means of transportation we’ve been pretty homebound ever since. needless to say we’re hoping to get a radiator asap.
saturday i woke up by myself around 9:30, which is very very weird. elliott has woken me up without fail between 7:30 and 8:30 pretty much every day since he was born. justin woke up at the same time and we commented on the fact that elliott still seemed to be asleep. with jet lag and the fact that he refused to go to sleep until 10:30 the night before it wasn’t inconceivable that he slept in, but we both still felt kind of uneasy. justin got up to check on him, opened his door, and said “sarah, you’ve got to see this.” i walked into elliott’s room and there was elliott, on the floor, OUT OF HIS CRIB, rolling around like it was no thing. also, he had a huge grin on his face that said “mommy look what i did!” while i had a look on my face that said “how in the…”. needless to say elliott’s crib is now lowered.
sunday night we were watching the last episode of ken burns’ civil war (why john wilkes booth? why?) while elliott was crawling around and playing on the floor. for some reason i decided to pick elliott up and while i was doing so i looked up at our wall to see a giant black spider. i’m not deathly afraid of spiders, although i don’t like them a ton, but since elliott came along i’ve become pretty vigilant about killing anything that could potentially be a threat to him that is in my house – just call me momma bear. something about this spider looked weird so i called justin in to kill it. when he said “whoa, it’s a black widow,” i got kind of hysterical at something potentially deadly to my child being right in my LIVING ROOM, only a couple of feet from where he was crawling. i kept imagining if i hadn’t picked him up when i did and if he had noticed it first and crawled towards it. thank you divine inspiration. justin killed it, i calmed down a little, and needless to say we’re going to be bug spraying the baseboards. when we have a car again and can go buy some.
so far this week has been much calmer, thank goodness, and now i’m left hoping that we’ve had our quotient mishaps for the month.
