Wayne and Rebecca Madsen

Paela got stuck behind the toilet.

Rebecca was at the computer, I was in the shower. Paela -- our little explorer -- was playing with the toilet paper roll next to the toilet. She fell and hit her head and started crying. My first thought -- since I was almost finished in the shower -- was that if she was badly hurt, she'd scream louder and longer. But she kept crying. That's when I hopped out of the shower to see our poor daughter with her head stuck under the pipes behind the toilet, her face smashed against the corner. There was no way of telling how bad her face smack was because we couldn't see her face. Worse yet, we couldn't figure out how she got in there because we couldn't get her out of there. We tried going back the way she came and that only pinched her ears and nose and made her scream louder.

Eventually -- after trying to subdue our panic -- we managed to twist her shoulders forward, trying to avoid bending the poor child in half. Broken baby: 0. Wayne and Rebecca: 1. [I was glad when she started squirming out on her own; if she could move, she must be okay! -becca]

That's how we started the week. The rest of the week was packing boxes for our move and trying -- somewhat unsuccessfully --  to deal with having a home with everything everywhere. We went swimming a few more times and Paela loves to kick her legs while holding onto my arm. [it almost makes it seem like she's swimming.] A tooth popped out and Paela licks it all the time with her tongue

The fourth was calm, we went to some friends' house and had homemade sushi rolls. We're quite the fireworks grinches. That is, unless we're in Wyoming and tossing "blow your arm off" brand fireworks with magnesium wicks into 50 gallon tubs of water. Rebecca liked that.

This weekend Rebecca's entire family came out. Saturday we kept cool by swimming in the pool and today we did a nice picnic in the park. Paela's been staying up way too late every night; tonight, when I got home for her bed time, she passed out the moment I put her down. Poor thing. I wish I could sleep so well in this heat.