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thedivas: When we were talking on the phone, something triggered a quote in my head, but a chunk of it was missing. Here you go, courtesy of the Ba'al Shem Tov

"From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven. And when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, their streams of light flow together and a single, brighter light goes forth from their united being."

Children, and Other Domestic Dangers

Sometimes, kids are just wonderful.

Other times, they'll make you crazy.

Alexander's hit a stage where he'll yell "ow!" at the drop of a hat. Needless to say, this becomes a bit like the boy crying wolf, but is made worse by the fact that he does enough things in which he has the potential to hurt himself that each "ow!" needs some sort of investigation. Nicholas is getting a batch of teeth- four or six, i can't tell, which has made him particularly cranky. He's also a climber, who'll attempt to scale anything. Saturday, he climbed up on the couch, clambered on to the window sill, and proceeded to walk right out the window (granted, i was right there to ensure that he didn't step off the outer part of the sill, but still). He's also learned- just today- how to pull himself over the baby gate.

This pretty much sets the dramatis personae for today's scene. damashita was off at her seemingly-weekly outing with mistress_gaelan (it's not really weekly, but has been three of the last four), so the transition from work to dad-mode was by necessity a short cycle. At one point, i had something to do in the back of the house. I just about get back there than i hear alexander yell "Ow! NICHOLAS!" and then hear baby screaming, so i run out, figuring the little guy has climbed up on the cedar chest or something and fallen off.

What really happened: nicholas picked up a book his brother had left on the floor, touched alexander with it, and proceeded to sit down on the floor to look at it. Alexander yelled at him and scared him. Oh, yes, and in the process of running out to see what was up, i stepped on the base of the computer chair and cut my foot on it.