Margaret's first "Occurrence Report" at daycare

Margaret had her first "event" that required a report at daycare on Thursday. According to the report, it occurred at 4:10 and was witnessed by Ms. LaDonya and Ms. Jakki. Exciting exerpts of the report are as follows:

"Describe in detail, i.e., what the child was doing when injured; specific center location:
In the infant room, Margaret was pulling up on the rocking chair when she let go and bumped her head on the chair."

"Describe injury in detail, i.e. what part of the child was injured; nature and degree of injury; child's condition:
There is a small bump on her forehead."

"Type of first aid administered: Ice pack"

"Description of corrective action taken to prevent a similar occurrence:
Next time we will watch Margaret more carefully when pulling up on the furniture."

I had to sign the form to verify that I'd received it. I was actually surprised that they even bothered with a report - you could barely notice the bump and Margaret didn't seem to be fazed at all. In fact, they said that, unlike almost all of the other kids, she seemed to like the icepack. Until she finally works out the kinks in her walking, we probably should anticipate more minor dings and exciting event reports.

Other developments of interest:

• If you look closely at the picture of Mama and Margaret (you may need to click on it to enlarge it), you'll notice two top teeth. She's had the bottom two for a couple months now, and we've been waiting with bated breath for the next two. Now that they're here, it's a bit anticlimatic. Still, it does mean that charming toothless grins will soon be a thing of the past.

• Margaret has learned to vigorously shake her head "No!" In fact, she seems to (generally) understand the appropriate context in which to use the gesture. She's done eating gets a shake of the head as does rejection of the nuk-nuk (pacifier) when she's feeling fussy. Come to think of it, so do lots of other things. We just have to hope that this isn't evidence of a strong contrarian streak.

• We took Margaret to another restaurant for dinner with some friends, albeit a fancier one here in DC (our regular babysitter, a sophomore at G'town U. was out of the country for spring break.) Apparently, she actually helped us get a table since, while I was parking the car, everyone else got a table that had been reserved for someone else. Who can resist a cute baby (and the danger of a meltdown in the event that seating issues aren't resolved quickly)? And once again, she was a complete champ - loved the bread that they served and ate Cheerios and applesauce while bobbing and looking around at everyone and everything. However, while the waiter and backwaiters had fun making eyes at her, everyone else seemed either apathetic or even aghast that their dinner might be disturbed by a baby. Such a contrast between provincial, friendly Pittsburgh and cosmopolitan DC!

• Today, Mama and Margaret went to a "playgroup" at the Volta Park community center that Abby organized on the "Georgetown Moms" webgroup in which she participates. I have no idea what a "playgroup" entails since Maddie and I went to the grocery store and then played frisbee while waiting for the playgroup to finish, but anything involving "Georgetown Moms" sounds ominous. Still, when I stuck my head in to tell Abby that the dog and I were going to go play frisbee, everyone seemed quite happy.