OOWWEEE!!!

This past Monday Clay and I stayed home from work recouping from a weekend of the stomach flu. I do not wish that on anybody, it is the pits! Little man stayed home with us, so we kept on hand sanitizing and wearing face masks so that he will not get sick. I am the one who usually cuts his fingernails and I do it while he is asleep so that he is not moving too much. Not really sure why I wanted to tempt fate and change the order in what I do things but I did. I tried to cut his nails while he was awake. First hand was great!! He moved but I anticipated it so would stop and wait. But his next hand was a different story. I started on his thumb and that was the one that got the oowwee!! After it happened he looked at me stunned for a few seconds and then came the painful cry! Oh my goodness, I picked him up so quick and just kept on saying, I'm sorry, I'm sorry over and over again! I was crying and he was crying and that is when Clay came in and took him for a minute. I felt awful! As Clay took him into the other room, I stood in the baby's room and literally cried like a baby. After a few minutes, Clay came back in the room and said that it was a little cut and that it will grow back in no time but that still didn't make me feel any better, so I kept crying. I pretty much cried off and on the whole day and started back up again when I told my mother, only to have her say that she did it to us a few times when we were younger and we still had all of our fingers. Great! Thanks Mom!

Little babies are resilient, unlike me, and Andrew was playing with his toys and using his thumb an hour after it happened. He would let out a little howl when he would forget that it hurt which would break my heart but he was fine. It is now Thursday and you would never even tell that a mishap like that had ever happened but a mother never forgets. I have learned my lesson ... no more clipping nails while awake! Always when asleep or just bite them off.