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Sunday, April 19, 2009

a post about brett

Here's another post from a different blog. This was directed at our friends Jackie and Joel, and their baby Blythe. Enjoy!


as we all know, our babies are in constant competition to "one up" each other. like how ethan projectile vomited the other day and tried to shoot it farther than blythe ever has. anyway, this morning we had another first experience that i think you won't be able to top (and won't want to, perhaps).

so ethan has started having a barf-o-rama every morning after he eats at 9. we try to keep him upright, so that we can limit the amount of barfing that occurs. anyway, this morning i was sitting with him, hoping he wouldn't barf and then brett came over and put his face right up in ethan's face and gave him a hug. hee hee. can you guess what happened next?

close guess, but not quite right, joel. ethan did barf, and he barfed in brett's face. but it wasn't just in his face.

ethan. barfed. up. brett's. nose.

hee hee. sick!


And Brett's side of the story:

"this is what happened. ethan ate, and like always at 9am, he puked. his 9am puke is not a projectile type puke but more of a pouring out. like he is an ethan shaped pitcher. well he was lying on betsy and was lying next to them looking up. next thing i feel my sinuses get really full...you know like when you are doing the neti pot. but, it wasn't startling at all because it was body temperature and it just kept filling up my sinuses until i realized what was happening. at that point i sat up and the second hand boob milk drained out of my nose. probably about two tablespoons worth."

And Jackie and Joel's reactions, respectively:

"i don't think i want to beat that. i definitely want to leave my nose empty of barf. i pretty much wear spit up all day everyday. so.... blythe and i love it. and probably love it more than you."

"our new saying...its kinda like if you get to close to the fire you're gonna get burned...now it's... if you stick your nose next to a barfing Ethan mouth it's gonna get barfed up."

5 comments:

Shill and Company said...

Haha. That's a very funny story. Can't say we have experienced anything quite like that! Even with 4 children.

Erin:) said...

oh my!!!! i love it!!!:)

Laura Rollins said...

Laugh. Freakin'. Out. Loud!!!

That's great! I can totally relate to the projectile spitting-up... I just can't relate to it going up my nose. You've got a winning story, Brett; it's pretty darn hard to top that one!

Karyn said...

That's awesome. Ashlin puked in a baby sitters mouth once. You gotta watch out for that spit up stuff...it's sneaky!

Joel said...

everyone who reads this blog must think I am slow in the brain because of my ingenious sayings and the fact that I stopped reading novella long posts. well all I have to say is, it's true.