Kids Say....

Yesterday, as I was washing my new travel coffee mug (yes, I've taken up coffee drinking since we moved) and removing the tags, Mzee walked in the kitchen and in a very matter of fact tone demanded "How many bucks was that?" When I told him he replied, "Oh, that was cheap." I said, "oh, you think so?" to which he responded, "Well, actually, it might be expensive." I could hardly contain myself!

Milan had a rough night last night. She started a horrible sounding cough early in the day, but very infrequent. Her nose was a faucet all day. By bedtime, I knew we were dealing with croup. We put her to bed with the humidifier going and hoped for the best. However, she really started coughing a lot. We did the usual steam in the bathroom, but we ran out of hot water before we really got the bathroom steamed up enough. This was partly my fault since I didn't have the shower going, just running water in the tub. In any case, by 10:30 we decided we should call the pediatrician before it got really late and she ended up worse. She decided since this was the first night and it usually gets worse nights two and three that she would take an aggressive approach, so I got introduced to the nearest 24 hour pharmacy. Not how I wanted to spend my Sunday evening....nothing ordinary happens at midnight on a Sunday at a 24 hour pharmacy...needless to say it was an interesting trip. The medicine tastes horrible, but once she took it she fell asleep and slept until 9 a.m. this morning! I stayed home with her this morning and she was generally in good spirits if just a bit needy. Don had an interview this morning, so I went to work when he got back home.

Milan's new favorite thing is pretending to feed us something she's cooked. She holds her hand out to us and says "num num", to which we are to pretend to eat what she's made and say "yum, yum, yum, delicioso." We all do this, even Mzee, and she thinks it is great fun. At first she would do it with a toy plate or dish in her hand, but now she'll just reach out into the air and hand something to us. Tonight she even bent down to pick something from the floor to feed Mzee...hmmmm?