Lots of Boo-boos

This morning N&C were playing with me on our bed. Nicholas was standing by my side of the bed holding on to the headboard. And I was sitting right by him and I turned to watch Celia who was crawling to the other side of the bed. All of a sudden Nicholas started crying so hard. It was a hurt cry too. He was wringing his hands like something hurt his hand. I could see a red mark on his right pointer finger, but it looked like how he reacts to mosquito bites. I looked to see if he got a sliver or if a weird mosquito bit him? Nothing. I just couldn't figure it out. So I just held him and tried to soothe him. I put on his favorite video (baby signing time), offered him drinks, crackers, took a stroller walk, etc. He cried hard for 20 min, and then off/on during the stroller walk. Thats the hardest thing when you don't know what is wrong.
Well, they napped and he woke up happy so I was glad to see that. But I just knew it was something with his hand and I looked again in the afternoon and here there is a huge blister on his finger (where the pointer meets the palm on the lower part of the 3 sections of the palm side of the finger). His pointer and index fingers both are red and a bit puffy along with the blister. I figured out he grabbed the lightbulb on my bedside table lamp when he was standing by the headboard. :( poor little guy.
I called the pediatrician and the nurse said to keep the blister from popping, but if it does to cover it with a band-aid to keep it clean. Grandma and Grandpa Velicer are going to bring some Vitamin E capsules so we can put vitamin E on his blister/burn (supposed to help).
I had him carry around a bag of frozen peas to keep his finger cool. He also let his hand be under running cool water for a while too. If only I had known and done that earlier his blister might not be so bad.

We had another injury too. They were playing outside this afternoon and I watched as Celia truly RAN across the backyard. She can really run now. As she made a 2nd pass she fell and skidded on her knees. Her left knee skinned and a quarter-sized area started to bleed. She was crying and I needed to clean and bandage her so I put her in the house and ran to get Nicholas so he wouldn't be outside by himself. By the time I got Nicholas in she was in her room reading books happily as blood dripped off her knee. She is one tough cookie! I washed it with soap/water, dried it and put on a band-aid and that was it. Not a complaint - and she didn't mind the band-aid either.

On a good note.... I sat down and listed all the signed words and spoken words N&C can do as of today (right at 18 months). At this age sounds that are consistantly done for a word = a word.

Nicholas signs 26 words, says 11 words

Speaks: Daddy, baby, eat, uh oh, hi, ay yi yi, fish, moo= cow, funny noise = cat, ah ah= car/wheels, ack ack = duck
* he said daddy clearly today, copied me when I said 'ay yi yi' last night

Signs: drink, grandma, eat, sleep, frog, car, cracker, milk, diaper, potty, hurt, baby, bird, dog, book, ball, banana, swing, all done, more, please, plane, brush teeth, book, bath

Celia signs 14 words, says 9 words

Speaks: uh oh, baby, hi, outside, yay, kitty, arf = dog, funny noise = cat, ack ack,= duck
(baby and kitty she has said before, but doesn't much right now)

Signs: Grandma/pa, dog, ball, more, please, drink, eat, sleep, frog, milk, diaper, baby, brush teeth, wash hands

Nicholas has really just taken off with his babbling and saying a few words this last week. I know Celia has the skills to speak. But she is just not doing it much yet. I guess it must be developmental differences in the two of them. I hope she starts soon!