Wednesday, April 14, 2010

How Best to Torture Your Child

Have you ever seen a pigostat device? If you have, I'm sorry. If not, I hope you never will. Today, unfortunately, I did have to see one and had to put my child in one. Alexa has had a lingering cough for weeks now and after antibiotics, inhalers, and a fever that lasted for over four days they decided to give her a chest x ray. Because toddlers tend to be stubborn, wiggly people they invented the pigostat...

Poor Lex was stripped, strapped, and stuck in this machine. It reminds me of some medieval torture device. If having pneumonia isn't bad enough...being stuck in this thing so they can diagnose it is.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Congratulations!....It's an Elephant!

Recently, my sister phoned with some very exciting news. I gathered Amanda and Alison to the phone where Annie proceeded to tell them that she had a baby in her tummy. She then asked the girls what they thought the baby would be. Amanda responded that she thought it would be another girl. Alison, however, was not about to be constrained by conventional (and scientific) reason. "Maybe it's a puppy, or a kitty, or an....ELEPHANT!!!!" Well, I hate to break it to you, kid, but your new cousin will probably be the same species as the rest of us. Regardless, though, we are super excited about the newest Puska. Congratulations!!!

Magical Moments

My little niece, Haley, is another crazy little peanut. Case in point:

My sister and brother in law recently took Haley for her first walk in the rain. Being the good mommy she is, Annie made sure Haley was prepared and dressed her in a rain jacket and rain boots. When they approached their first puddle, Annie excitedly explained to Haley that her jacket and boots were "magic" and that she could splash in the puddle without getting wet. Upon hearing this, Haley cautiously walked up to the puddle and crouched down to contemplate it. The next thing my sister and Matt knew, Haley had thrown herself face first, belly down, into the puddle.

Five minutes after their walk had begun, it was over. Annie and Matt carried a soaking wet Haley back and I'm sure Haley was thinking, "magic? yeah right, mom!"