4:59 am June 23, 20096
Deacon turned six months yesterday. Sadly, he had a check-up on his half birthday. I say sadly because a baby’s check-up always means a few pokes to legs with needles containing various illness preventing/cry inducing medication. And cry he did. But he tried to be tough, you could see it in his tiny face as his little lips quivered and fat tears rolled down his cheeks.
But before all the crying there was the basic “check up” part, where our sweet pediatrician comes in with a “Hi guys, how are we doing and stuff?” spoken in a tone sugary friendly and completely disarming. (I seriously love that guy.) Deacon — who was buck nekkid after being weighed on the little baby scale — responded by peeing on the examination table. I was a nano second too slow with the new diaper. “That’s okay,” the doctor assured me, “that happens sometimes and stuff.” But for the smallest of moments, I thought I saw irritation bubbling below his cool surface as he wiped up my kid’s pee and changed the ABC/Dancing Bears sani-paper on the exam table. But then the look was gone, and he sweetness returned.
He gently poked and prodded as he asked general questions… and the awesome thing about summertime is that my kids are home from school and get to accompany me to these visits and are very helpful at truthfully answering the doctor’s questions.
“So guys, how is Deacon eating?” And although the doctor uses the word guys in the superfluous way I use the word dude, my kids believe that the doctor is actually addressing them.
“Deacon likes Cool Ranch Doritos,” Jachin says.
The doctor chuckles, checking Deac’s ears. “I don’t think he can eat Doritos yet,” the doctor says.
“No, he really does,” Jachin assures him. “I gave him some at my birthday party and he grabbed it and wouldn’t stop licking it. It was crazy!”
“Yeah,” Zoe piped in, “and Dad gave him Cool Whip for breakfast yesterday morning.”
The doctor looks at me and smiles. “Oh yeah?” he says.
“Just a little bit,” I said. “He just licked the spoon.”
“Well,” the doctor chuckled, “Cool Whip is yummy and stuff, but it’s not healthy to eat Cool Whip for breakfast every morning.”
“I didn’t have any breakfast today,” Zoe says matter-of-factly. “Or lunch.”
“Well, I’m sure you’ll be having lunch soon…” the doctor says, holding up Deacon and probably wondering if it’s a good idea to give him to me.
“And plus,” Zoe continues, “Mom sometimes gives Deaky Pull-n-Peels.”
“Oh yeah,” Jachin says, “he loves those things.”
And there is was: in less than a minute my kids had spilled everything that I’d never planned on telling the doctor.
I thought briefly of how to play it, and then figured I’d just play it straight.
“Dude,” I said to my kids, “you aren’t supposed to tell the doctor that stuff.”
And the doctor just said, “Kids are good at spilling all of your secrets.”
No kidding, guys. And stuff.
Here is a video of Deac yesterday, doing what he loves best: his jumper.
Nevermind the little bit of Hershey’s syrup there on his upper lip… he just had a tiny bite of my ice cream.
What??
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Um, and there was that time I totally saw you give him a swedish fish, like 3 months ago, when he was really new. Yep, right there in the mother’s lounge in the church. I should of gone with you to the docs he has no idea.
Comment by shahara — June 23, 2009 @ 5:54 am
Dude, I make very few judgments about feeding children bits of this & that. I started putting vanilla ice cream on my kids’ oatmeal when they were 4, cinnamon sugar on apple slices & chocolate on bananas since I don’t remember when. Please.
He’s freaking adorable.
Comment by stephanie (bad mom) — June 25, 2009 @ 2:30 pm
butter and sugar go into all vegetables in our house. I don’t like them plain, why the heck would he? It doesn’t take away the nutrients, just adds flavor!
go baby go!!! love the jumper, makes super skrong leggs.
Comment by Nerak — June 25, 2009 @ 3:48 pm
ah, motherhood. it only takes a minute to feel like we loose! but seriously, you’re a great mama. think of all the textures you’re introducing him to! my kids first food is usually a red vine, they love it!
Comment by jenica — June 27, 2009 @ 7:29 pm
Kids are such narcs! Geez!
I love the video. He’s such a cutie!
Comment by Leslie — July 18, 2009 @ 5:41 pm