The last few days, Sayde has been complaining about various ailments: my arm is broken, my tummy hurts, my forehead hurts, my ear, floods, plagues, locusts. I think secretly, she is pissed that Connor had a birthday party and got a lot of attention, and her birthday isn't for another month.
So, last night after she sat up in bed *SCREAMING* that her tummy hurt, again, I went up. Without saying a word I got into bed right behind her, put her little head on my lap and stroked her hair. She immediately quieted down, and closed her eyes. (I remember an evening in my childhood where my Grandma sat by my bed and stroked my hair, I kept dreading the moment she would inevitably stop, but she never did. I must have fallen asleep first.) So we stayed that way for a long long time until finally I eased myself out of her bed, kissed her forehead, and quietly slipped out of her room, and right into Ella's to give her one last nighttime meal before going to bed myself.
Not even one minute later, she burst out of the room *SCREAMING* that her ear hurt. This time Lennie went up and I could hear him giving the Calm-Down Spiel that works oh so well with both Sayde and I. "Take a deep breath! You're being ridiculous! Sayde, this is not how we behave! Calm down!" Shockingly, the screaming continued.
As soon as I was done feeding Ella, I went to the medicine cabinet, got the Children's Tylenol and found Sayde sitting up in bed, alone. At that same moment that she was sipping her Tylenol, Lennie walked in with a little cup of Children's Motrin. Except, his cup was filled with water. He was trying to trick an almost 6 year old into believing that a cup of water was cherry-flavored Motrin. We locked eyes, and for a moment, it was extremely hard not to burst into laughter.
When we left Sayde's room, all I could do was poke him in the ribs and say, "Really?"
As it turned out, neither the Tylenol nor the faux Motrin worked because shortly after this, Sayde climbed into bed with us. But I just had to laugh at the Stupid Parent Tricks that Daddy resorted to last night.
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Ha, so the placebo trick doesn't work after a certain age? I hope Sayde's fake illness gets better soon. Poor kid.
Shit. I applaud him for even getting up out of bed.
I also applaud the effort. I have done that with the 2 hyear old. She wants "medicine" any time her brother gets it, lol.
Aww, poor baby. We've done the same things.
Glad he got up, way to go dad.
I'm going to start keeping a bottle of cherry "Fruit 2 O" in the fridge from now on - the placebo is such a great idea and we've never tried that! We usually do a Vicks rubdown of the offending area. :)
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