When you are a parent....

You learn to live your life for another person (or in my case, people). You learn your life is no longer your own....and usually most things that you want must come after your children's needs are met. And recently, as I've learned, sometimes your child does something SO incredibly dumb that your first 2 reactions are: 1. LAUGH hysterically. 2. Grab the camera! So, the story is....Brooklyn decided to be funny at bedtime, and when Derek announced that it was time to go upstairs for bed, she bolts up the stairs. Her mission was to hide from him, thinking if he couldn't find her, then she would be spared from actually having to go to bed. So I'm downstairs and I hear her fly up the stairs, then i hear her SCREAM and start sobbing. I heard Derek going, "what's wrong, what happened?!" and she wouldn't answer him. She just jumped in her bed and covered herself up, still totally bawling. Then I hear Derek start laughing...which makes Brooklyn totally angry. Derek finally gets out of her what happened, and they both come down to tell me. So I take one look at her and bust up laughing. I felt bad, but seriously...she looked so silly. THEN the story comes out....she had burst up the stairs to do the hiding, and she tried to dive under her desk (ya know, the perfect place to hide....) in the process she clonks her head on the edge of her desk and gets a giant goose egg. I had to take her picture because it was soooo funny. Of course, she didn't want her picture taken, so I told her it was to show the doctor in case she was seriously injured. Seriously....sometimes children are more entertainment than anything else. Enjoy the pictures of my child, her injury, and look forward to the future with me when we use these pictures to show her boyfriends and tell them the story.... :)