Flowers & Face-plants...

On Sunday my dad came up and spent the day and night with us. The weather was beautiful and we had a yummy bar-b-q chicken and asparagus dinner! The next morning was just as great, so we headed over to Ironstone Winery in Murphys; a beautiful sprawling vineyard that has thousands of daffodils that are all in bloom:)

We got some cute pictures of Forest! My vision was to sit him in the middle of some flowers, but because he can't sit up yet I had to put him in his Bumbo seat with a blanket over it. It worked fine... until I got a little over-ambitious, and saw the PERFECT patch of flowers... the only problem was that it was on a bit of a slope. I set him in his seat and he was perfectly stable, until he reached forward to grab at one of the bright yellow flowers (just out of his reach) just as I had stepped back to get the PERFECT shot.... and he took a 'header' right into the dirt! His seat just tipped right on over. Of course it happened in slow motion, and I saw the whole thing unfold millisecond by terrifying millisecond!!! As I was taking my 3 giant steps towards him I had time to look at the ground where his face was about to land, so I knew there would not be any major injuries... but still:(

He cried of course, and had dirt and twigs on his shirt and face and in his fuzzy hair, AND... he got his first non self-inflicted scratches on his face:( Poor little guy. He stopped crying a second after I picked him up and was fine, but I still felt super guilty.

Like most new experiences with Forest, I am glad when each new one happens and is 'under our belts' because now I know that he will be fine when it surely happens again.