On Sunday, after Church, we headed to our mini van to load up the kids and head to lunch. As we were loading up the babies, Amy Schoonover stopped because she just "had to take a peak at Jax". Jax and her share a special love for one another :) IF you really must know what that is, just ask, but for the sake of embarassing some of you, I will spare you the details. We spoke for a few moments and then off we headed to the "Salem Place" to eat.
About 2-3 three minutes after we left the Church parking lot, I heard a loud thud. I thought intensely to myself, "What the heck was that?" But I never turned around to make sure everything in the back was okay. That changed immediately after a small delayed reaction on Jax's part and then an very LOUD crying out in pain.
Apparently, after Amy approached the vehicle, I stopped the process of buckeling Jax up. STUPID ME. Jax fell out of his car seat and onto the floor board of the mini van. Thankfully we were only going about 5 miles an hour. Jax's carseat is still sitting in the rear facing position, but when I turned around to rescue him from the floor, Jax was on his belly facing forward. He did an entire 180.
Sadly to say, I have done this twice before with Lilah, but she didn't fall out of her car seat. I drove all the way home from Valley View Mall with Lilah unbuckled before noticing it. YIKES. The other time, Tyson insisted I stop the car because his sister wasn't buckled and sure enough he was absolutely correct. Praise God that he had His loving arms around them during these times when mommy was MORE than irresponsible and distracted.
*MOMMIES be sure to buckle up your babies.*
Amy is now banned from any parking lot conversations with us :)
2 comments:
Praise God that Jax was okay. I forgot to buckle Cyrus up more than once...when i got home i was so scared. now I check twice...poor mommies with too much on their minds.
Well as sad as I was for Jax after reading this post I am glad to read that this happens to other mommies, not just me. The other day I put Cohen in his car seat and was giving him a snack, toys, sippie, etc and totally forgot to buckle him in!!! I realized it once I got all the way down our curvy road! AHH. I felt so horrible, but it happens to the best of us :) Happy Birthday Lilah and JAX!
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