February 18, 2009

  • Spring and Summer

    After spending a rainy day at home yesterday, hoping a quiet day and good night's sleep would get the kids over their coughing a bit, today we hit the sprinkler park downtown. Because we swooped right through spring and landed on summer today. It's 80 degrees and ver ysunny. We'd still be out, but I hadn't thought to bring sunscreen (because it's FEBRUARY!!!!) and I was afraid of Cotton getting a sunburn. She's got burned twice last summer, which is two more times than the other kids. The poor, neglected smunchie.

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    Lest you think it's all fun and games here, I'll let you know about a recent Cotton-tastic event. She loves the trash, and for some reason instead of getting a garbage can she can't open I mostly put the can where she can't get it. I forgot to do this one night after supper.

    The kids had eaten Valentine's candy for dessert, for once getting the wrappers into the trash can. On top of the styrofoam tray the chicken had come home from the grocery store in. The gross, slimy, wet, drippy styrofoam tray. And Cotton, naturally, found the candy wrappers and half eaten candy, all conveniently located in one germy spot. After a minute or two of hearing a crackly sound I can't place, I go in the kitchen, and sort out what's happened. Cotton spits out a candy heart, and cries when I take all of her wrappers away. The ones she's so carefully extracted from the biohazard disaster of a trash can.

    I plunk her on the counter and try to sort out what to do. Can't rinse her with bleach. Baby wipes? Not strong enough. Clorox wipes? Too strong. So I wash her off, and dry her. Chance comes up with the best plan we can think of, which is , "Feed The Baby Garlic". It's an anti-fungal, might be anti-bacterial, and it's pretty much not only the best, but the only, idea we have. So Cotton went from trash-candy to plain white rice mixed with chopped up raw garlic. Which she loved enough to eat a whole bowl of.

    This is what passes for parenting around here. Sprinklers in February, and the garlic cure.

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