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03/16/2006 Archived Entry: "I think they're cool too"

So Tabitha watched an episode of Higglytown Heroes this morning. For those of you not surrounded by little people, this is a show about a town of nesting dolls. No lie. Every episode the kids have a problem that they are completely incapable of figuring out and all the nearby adults are apparently useless. Take this morning's episode. It was the baby's first birthday and she was crying. All the kids can't understand why they baby is crying on her birthday and Mom is so totally inept as a parent that she only checked the baby's diaper and tried to feed her and then they all went on a field trip to the pediatrician. The baby cried for all of 2 minutes and that warrants a trip to the pedi? Can you guess what might have been wrong? Teething, obviously. I figured that out and I didn't even watch the whole thing. I won't even go into how the ped. apparently cures colds, measles and mumps, viruses that you can't cure two of which rarely happen anymore! For some reason this particularly episode just got to me. Even Tabitha expressed disbelief that they went to a pediatrician just because a baby was crying.

Now that I'm done lashing out at a kiddie show, I can mention my hot date last night :) My friend M and I have known each other forever but rarely see each other, despite the fact that we live in the same city and she works maybe 3 miles from my house. So after Chris got home last night I headed out for a long overdue visit. We sat at the restaurant table for an hour and a half and then sat in my car for another hour just talking. Hopefully we can make this a more regular event, but we said that last time we got together over 2 years ago.

Once I was home and put Tabitha to bed, Chris and I had a nice evening just talking on the couch before heading off to bed. It was a rough night with Daisy who seems to have some mild congestion in her chest. She's barely coughing, but enough to wake her up. Chris took over at some point because I haven't been sleeping well as it is and am exhausted. Just to top things off, an hour after he gets her back in bed, I woke up with a tickle in my throat. I'm not sick, it's more than likely just due to the weather, but I couldn't believe that I had to get out of bed *again* after just going to sleep.

I'll close with Tabitha's latest creative writing.

Subject: Bugs

"Ladybugs aren't always ladys. Yes, these aphid eating bugs can be males, to. Ladybugs are very cool bugs."