Isabelle has taken the role of mother to daycare, and cares for some of the other kids. She is so maternal already! She reads other kids stories, and gets their stuffed animal comfort toy when they fall or are upset about something. She does that for David at home too. She also feeds the other kids, and her new favorite thing to do is hug. She doesn't hug everyone all the time, but she and one of her 'boyfriends' will hug off and on throughout the day. And it seems to come at odd times. For instance, they will be running around the yard at daycare, in their usual crazy circle kinda shape, then one of them will stop, and a hug ensues. Then it's back to running, climbing, hiding, drawing, etc.

Isabelle has also taken to playing 'This little Piggy' with David. Sometimes it just becomes a big gigglefest, and I don't hear anything about piggies, just two very happy children. But then after 15 or 20 minutes of doing something else, the competition comes back, and sharing ends, or someone gets pushed. Oh well.



David had his first major accident. He's never had very good balance and has taken a few nasty tumbles, but this latest one loosened some teeth and caused our daycare provider a minor heart attack. Apparently it was just a regular day of running around giggling when David tripped on some uneven ground and fell mouth first into the concrete. I got the dreaded call at work. Me: "Is everything ok?", Daycare: "um, well, no... David fell." Me: "How bad is it?" Daycare: "Um, well, there looks like a lot of blood, but it's mixed with saliva..." Me: One of us will be right there."



We ended up taking him to the dentist the next morning and things appear to be mostly ok. The x-ray shows that there's no fractures of the root or tooth and they expect that the loose teeth will recover in a couple of weeks. It looks swollen and sore and awful to me, as a Mom and a person who doesn't deal well with tooth problems thanks to a terrible childhood dentist. Anyway. David doesn't really seem to be that bothered by it and is eating and drinking normally. And he is active as ever, giving us all mild heart attacks on a daily basis. He's a such a little trooper and did so well at the dentist. We're so proud of him. He's going to grow up to do wonderful, important things!