The crappy "firsts"

There are lots of "firsts" that Ava has had in this first year of her life. First smile, first laugh, first step, first trip, first birthday... But there are also those "first" things that are a real bummer. Last week it was her first big fall. We were at Greg and Wendy's and she climbed up two or three stairs in their house and then turned around and fell head first down onto the floor below. Bump! She bonked her noggin, ending up with a little bump on her forehead and by her eye. I'm not sure who felt worse, me or Ava. To make matters worse I had to leave and go to class so I couldn't keep a paranoid eye on her first bump. I did call Wendy later and she sweetly reassured me that Ava was napping and no, she was not unconscious and was recovering just fine.

Yesterday for the first time she broke something big, that being the other crappy "first". What did she break? Two ceramic bowls that my Aunt Marion made and gave to us for a wedding gift. They were on the bowl rack in the corner of our dining room and Little Miss thought she needed to move the rack away from the wall so she could climb behind it. I realized what was happening in time to stop the entire rack from toppling over and caught one of my brother Grant's bowls before it, too, crashed into bits on my floor. To add insult to injury (no, no bodily injury) the bowl put a lovely little gash in my floor. Fritz! Ava went into her crib while I cleaned up the mess and when I went in to get her after cleaning it up she was very apologetic. (Apologetic means giggling and clapping her hands at me, right?)