Thanksgiving injury report
Nov. 26th, 2006 09:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mamajoanWell, our two Thanksgivings went off pretty well. The usual frenzied madness, you know, cooking, getting ready, catching up with relatives, eating, and suddenly it's done and you realize, hey, I'm completely exhausted! And then you crash. Unless you have two kids to wrangle, in which case you keep going for another several hours and THEN crash. urgh.
The food that I made came out mostly well. The sweet potatoes with candied pecans on top, another recipe courtesy of the folks at Cooks Illustrated/America's Test Kitchen, were AWESOME if I say so myself. Of course, at this point it is proper to add that the aforementioned dish would never have gotten made without the help of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
metafrantic, who peeled and chopped all the sweet potatoes while I was preparing other things, and sandykidd, who performed the all-important kid-wrangling while we were doing all of the above.
Friday night's big family dinner went quite well overall, weird though it is to see our cousins whom I used to babysit all growed up and stuff. (Little Connor is in college and has a beard!! omg! I taught that boy the word "gotcha"! It was the crowning achievement of the summer I was seventeen!) heh.
Then on Saturday morning we had the traditional morning-after-Thanksgiving waffle breakfast, and Isaac burned his hand on the waffle iron. :( He has a very ugly, albeit smallish, blister on his hand right where the pointer finger meets the hand. I can hardly bear to look at it, it's so awful. And I looked up burns on the web and got a whole bunch of alarmist stuff about how burns on small children can be Very Serious, especially on the hands, and you should call your doctor OMG RIGHT NOW if your child has a second- or third-degree burn. And blistering means second-degree. So this morning I did call our doctor and got the covering on-call doctor, who just happened to be our cousin Danny, the same cousin at whose house we had Thanksgiving two days ago. heh. Anyway, long story short, he says to keep it Bacitracin'd and covered with a bandaid and change the bandage frequently and watch for signs of infection. Isaac really strongly dislikes bandaids, so that's going to be interesting. Wish me luck.
btw, while I was typing this, Isaac looked at the screen and asked me "what does t-h-e spell?" and then when I said it spells "the", he asked, "what does that mean?" Eek. What does the mean?? I said "it's an article," which I fear was a woefully inadequate response.
ObBaby: Ruthie is the cutest baby ever. She is really loving her solids, although she still has to learn that grabbing the bowl-part of the spoon with your hand and then transporting same to mouth is not the best delivery mechanism. ;)
The food that I made came out mostly well. The sweet potatoes with candied pecans on top, another recipe courtesy of the folks at Cooks Illustrated/America's Test Kitchen, were AWESOME if I say so myself. Of course, at this point it is proper to add that the aforementioned dish would never have gotten made without the help of
metafrantic, who peeled and chopped all the sweet potatoes while I was preparing other things, and sandykidd, who performed the all-important kid-wrangling while we were doing all of the above.Friday night's big family dinner went quite well overall, weird though it is to see our cousins whom I used to babysit all growed up and stuff. (Little Connor is in college and has a beard!! omg! I taught that boy the word "gotcha"! It was the crowning achievement of the summer I was seventeen!) heh.
Then on Saturday morning we had the traditional morning-after-Thanksgiving waffle breakfast, and Isaac burned his hand on the waffle iron. :( He has a very ugly, albeit smallish, blister on his hand right where the pointer finger meets the hand. I can hardly bear to look at it, it's so awful. And I looked up burns on the web and got a whole bunch of alarmist stuff about how burns on small children can be Very Serious, especially on the hands, and you should call your doctor OMG RIGHT NOW if your child has a second- or third-degree burn. And blistering means second-degree. So this morning I did call our doctor and got the covering on-call doctor, who just happened to be our cousin Danny, the same cousin at whose house we had Thanksgiving two days ago. heh. Anyway, long story short, he says to keep it Bacitracin'd and covered with a bandaid and change the bandage frequently and watch for signs of infection. Isaac really strongly dislikes bandaids, so that's going to be interesting. Wish me luck.
btw, while I was typing this, Isaac looked at the screen and asked me "what does t-h-e spell?" and then when I said it spells "the", he asked, "what does that mean?" Eek. What does the mean?? I said "it's an article," which I fear was a woefully inadequate response.
ObBaby: Ruthie is the cutest baby ever. She is really loving her solids, although she still has to learn that grabbing the bowl-part of the spoon with your hand and then transporting same to mouth is not the best delivery mechanism. ;)
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Date: 2006-11-26 05:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-26 09:26 pm (UTC)"The" is like pointing. It's a word that means you are pointing at a particular one of whatever the word that comes after it means.