This Reminds Me

Archive for October 22nd, 2007

As a requirement of Rachel’s Child Development class, she stuffed a 5 lb. bag of flour inside a baby doll shell to represent her newborn, “Riley.”  Riley will be accompanying Mommy everywhere this week - home, church, school, shopping, babysitting, the Smithson Valley game, the dinner table  - yes indeed, everywhere.

Hey, chin up!  It could have been worse.  At least you didn’t get assigned twins like some of your classmates!

If Rachel must leave her flour child for any reason, she has to engage a babysitter – like, perhaps, Aunt Hannah, who asked, “So what happens if the babysitter really hurts your baby?”  Mommy answered, “You get points off for that.”   Hmmmm…  Perhaps Rachel should consider Aunts Lois or Julia.

Rachel tried handing Riley to me with a quick, “Here, you nurse her.”  That made me realize I needed to offer some maternal baby-handling advice/observations.  So here goes:

#5 -  If you are out of disposable diapers, a dish towel and safety pin will do – only not a dish towel someone else is likely to pick up and try to use for its intended purpose.

#4 -  Wash the car seat liner between children.

#3 -  Does it look like your washer is filled with little grapefruit or orange pieces?  That means you have laundered a pull-up.

#2 -  The church nursery workers do not want to hear, “Guess we shouldn’t have fed her all those prunes this morning.”

And my #1 piece of baby-handling advice:

#1 – Duck when you insert a suppository.  There’s a reason they’re nicknamed  “bullets of health.”

Boo-ti-ful Baby Rachel sez:  “Halloween is next week!”  If you live in San Antonio and have any leftover non-chocolate (non-melty) Halloween candy you would like to donate to children receiving Samaritan’s Purse boxes, give it to Keith or me at work, or hand it to one of our kids, or leave it on our porch.  We’ll use it!  We’re packing the weekend after Halloween.