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[sageandsea]

Well that was interesting. I won't know until next week if I passed or not; if I did, I'll still have to make it through the interview, and they are only hiring 10 people out of the ~200 that are testing this week. Aargh. I'd 'splain how it went, but then apparently they'd have to kill me.

Zinger is getting teeth for real, but they won't pop through yet. He also has decided that the tub is the place for learning to stand up, either the tub or the coffee table, where he promptly whangs his head against the underside of the table. I keep thinking an ER visit is in our future. If you have kids, when is the first time you had to take them, and why?

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[fishantlers.livejournal.com]

Ian has only been to the emergency room once, when he was just under age 3. He had been fighting yet another case of bronchitis when his breathing got very very raspy & he began coughing like mad. This developed around 2 AM but I tell you, that snapped me wide awake. Poor guy turned out to have pneumonia.

[maida-mac.livejournal.com]

(Re-posting this, I accidently deleted the other one.)

The Elder didn't make it to the emergency room until this past year, either when he was in a lot of pain (turned out to be constipation :p) or when his brother whacked his hand with a 1/2 inch diameter, 18 inch long steel rod. I'm not sure which it was.

The Younger was in and out as a baby (starting at less than a month old) due to upper respiratory infections.

To this day, I am still amazed. NEITHER child has broken a bone or had a serious injury. Even the rod incident only wound up being a sprained finger. The Elder did lose a fingernail once from getting his hand shut in a door and it getting infected, but that only required regular doctor visits.

Children are tougher than we give them credit for being. They have to be, to survive all the STOOOOPID crap they do.

[emmagrl.livejournal.com]

Don't have any of my own (damn biological clock), but in raising my sister and brother...I would say when there is blood that won't stop. :)

When my sister was 2, she came careening through the hallway, and into the living room...she fell headfirst into the corner of the coffee table (still has a scar to this day).

Good luck with everything...I'm sure you did wonderfully!