Our children have stuck Lego pieces up their nose and put screws in their mouth (wait, both of those instances involved our son) and for a long time there was something in their ears that didn’t belong: glue. Specifically, ear glue. Gross, right? Apparently,… Continue Reading “Two kids, four ears, six tubes”
We took her in for the long-awaited hearing test on Saturday. She didn’t pass. (Sound familiar?) It wasn’t even surprising. Her hearing’s been terrible for months now. At first it was for an unspeakably gross reason: wax build-up (!!!) plugging her ears. We dutifully… Continue Reading “Hear we go again”
He patted my head gently when he got home from school and saw I was still sick in bed with the flu. “Oh, Mom,” he started, pausing for a second to remind himself of the word he heard me use the night before. “Have… Continue Reading “Little kids, big words”