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She, Myself & I is now available in a store near you!

How am I celebrating the big day?

By trying to drink enough coffee to stay awake so I can take care of my sick baby who was up all night coughing (and crying and coughing and crying . . .).

Sam has croup. I knew immediately what to do because of the scene in Anne of Green Gables where Anne Shirley saves Diana Barry's little sister, Minnie May, from croup by boiling water (the steam helps the child to breath). George was doubtful at first (“I don’t think a hundred year old fictional book is the best source for medical advice,” he pointed out), but the American Academy of Pediatrics: Caring For Your Baby and Young Child book backed me up. So we spent a good part of the night sitting on the bathroom floor while the shower steamed up the room. Which, I have to say, none of us particularly enjoyed.

Now I'm very, very tired.

Sam and I curled up on the couch this morning and watched Higglytown Heroes (children's television seems to be the only thing that keeps him calm, and when he's calm he doesn't cough, so I'm going with what works).

Higglytown Heroes is a weird show about a group of four children who are actually nesting dolls (why, I have no idea), and get into various scrapes that require calling in one of the Higglytown Heroes (who are also all nesting dolls . . . the whole freaky town is made up of cartoon nesting dolls) for help. In the episode Sam and I were watching this morning, the children needed green paint and called in the Higglytown Painter Hero for help.

"I think their definition of hero is too broad," I said to George.

"I'm a Higglytown Hero brave and true! I help my town with the things I do," the painter sang in a thick French accent. He proceeded to teach the nesting doll children about mixing yellow and blue paint to make green paint.

"Like you need a hero for that," I scoffed. "I figured out the solution five minutes ago."

"Hon, it's Higglytown Heroes . . . I don't think the plot is supposed to be particularly complicated," George said.

"Hey, I'm operating on no sleep!" I replied. "Besides, since when are painters considered to be heroes? What's going to be next? The Higglytown Personal Injury Lawyer Hero?"

"I'm a Higglytown Hero brave and true, and I'll sue that malpracticing doctor for you," George sang.

Posted 27 September 2005 at 08:46 AM