Slightly strange scenes with the spawn

I think that the spawn is equal parts adorable and unusual. I'm too tired to write much more, but here a few amusing moments from the past few days. If they don't make sense, enjoy the pics.

(while making supper)

LittleE: *whiney annoying noise*
MamaM "stand back from the oven, it's hot" (restrains toddler from approaching hot food)
LittleE: *more insistent whiney annoying noise*
MamaM: "Use. Your. Words. (please)".

LittleE: "You want to put your books in the oven.
----But she says no"



Look, sleeping machinery.
"Night night green pick up truck"



Short conversations with suburbanites at the high school science fair:

"Aw, she's cute, does she have a big sister in the fair"?
"Nope, but his other mommy is one of the judges".

Pediatrics

Blogger ate my last post about pediatrics. I'll give a brief summary, but suffice to say pediatrics is not on my list of potential careers. which surprised me a bit. And made me realize how good it is that i had the chance to do this rotation before applying to the match. I've worked with kids for so many years, i just assumed that i'd go in that direction, but being a pediatrician is very different from all the other kid work that i've done.

1. Kids loathe and fear doctors. (and then scream and struggle and vomit in your general direction)
2. Parents are terrified when their kids are sick. (think cornered mama bears)
3. Daycares are the origin of whatever is "going around" (and then they bring it to the hospital...)

But the part that i really couldn't handle is that pediatricians cure things. Which is just not a place i can approach healing from. Deep down, i know that we are all dying. And that all medicine is really just a way to make suffering less, and to help us enjoy what little time we have on the planet. All medicine is different flavours of palliative care. Even in pediatrics. None of us can be cured of our mortality, or even of our sin. We've all got both, programmed right into us from the get go.

Some pediatricians are attracted to the field because children can be seen as blameless in their illness, innocent, and curable. When really, i don't think they are any of those things. Or, conversely, that adults who are ill are sick of their own doing, and don't deserve compassion because they brought it on themselves by smoking or eating badly or not exercising or having sex or not wearing sunscreen or whatever.

Sick people are just sick, illness is not punishment. And nobody gets ill because they deserve it.

So, no pediatrics for me. (As a residency that is; i'm hardly lacking in kid time in my real life, or likely in whatever field i eventually choose).

Navel gazing queers

Really, it's cuter when he's not coached. Next time we'll get out the camera before the 20th or so performance. . . (thanks to M&R for the footage!)