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HAPPY BLOGIVERSARY PHANTOM!
And that's the most weirdly entertaining book review I've read in a long time... with much sympathy for LG. Hope you're all cleaned up and doing better.
Happy Blogiversary!
And boy, I think you've just won yourself the style and the bodily fluids awards for Wednesday.
LOL -- ditto jane dark's comment.
i hope LG is feeling better today.
Ha ha ha! What Jane said. Best Book Review Ever.
If I was half the writer Phantom is (which, alas, I am not) I could write a series of kids' TV show reviews based on how well they prevent Snuggly Girl from yelping when I comb out her tangles.
Happy Blogiversary!!!! Hooray for the anniversary of the day when you began sharing your writing with all of us lucky pixies!!
That is one heckuva book review. I have heard of the book but didn't know much about it, but will now add it to our list.
(Is it assvice if I ask whether LG could manage Tylenol chewables? if so, just pretend I didn't say anything after "list.")
Great book review. Sorry you have such challenges with the administering of medication. At least the couch won't have a fever!
Cripes, this makes Miss M's irrational fear of band-aids seem like child's play.
Congrats on your grace under pressure. I would have bailed at the first sign of puking.
You win the hurculean efforts at fever reduction prize! And it sounds like a good book, too.
This sounds like a good book! I may have to get a copy, too!
Happy Blogiversary! I can't believe it's been two years. I've read you since the beginning so I can say I knew you before you were a blogging superstar ....
Oh my goodness. I've just won the "most likely to delay vomit" book award and I'm ... speechless with pleasure. Thanks, phantom, for this review, and it was great to meet you face to face. I, too, hope your beautiful boy's feeling better -- when are they going to release those heat-activated-skin-fever-reducing patches for kids?
Wow. Any book that can hold off the dreaded post-med emesis is the book for us! These are the kinds of things that parent readers *really* want to know.
Oh, poor LG! I understand that makes-your-heart-race tear-inducing irrational kind of fear. I hope it gets better. And I hope he feels better soon.
I don't have little kids to read to anymore (alas!) but I may read this just for me.
And btw, HAPPY BLOGIVERSARY!! You make the blogosphere a better and brighter place.
Happy blogiversary! Hope LG's feeling better soon.
So sorry to hear about LG--hope he gets better very soon. Poor little man.
I'm sorry for you and LG, but that's hysterical. And I love that Mitali read this post.
Oh my goodness, Phantom! You and Mitali have met? That's so awesome. The internet is a strange, but wonderful place.
And I loved Rickshaw Girl too 
Kelly, Mitali had by far the funniest (sotto voce) line I've ever heard in a blogger encounter -- she said that she felt like she ought to be commenting on me, like by writing on my arm or something.
Madeleine, I do think it would be wonderfully funny to start a new review genre on how media products perform under real-life testing conditions. Does the product induce fratricidal rivalry between normally harmonious siblings? Does the product allow the whole family to survive a long car trip? Did the product drive one or more parents to a life of substance abuse? These are useful and important questions rarely answered by traditional reviews!
(On a serious note, I must say that after two years of blogging it seems positively weird to think that one could write something and release into the world WITHOUT hearing immediate feedback from one's audience about the effect it has.)
Genevieve, the chewables idea is a good one, and Mr. Blue has been instructed to pick some up on his way home from work. Though when I mentioned the idea to LG, his initial enthusiam soon devolved into a sort of faint greenish pall across his face, accompanied by just a hint of suggestive gagging. I'm personally of the opinion that it's going to take years of therapy to achieve progress on the medication front. But, since hope springs eternal, and yada yada, there is currently a teaspoon of children's Tylenol in the freezer, where we hope it will transform into a palatable popsicle. I would feel more confident of the experiment if LG had not insisted on eating lunch as we wait....
I won't even go into the ways I've already earned a bodily fluids award for the day. But if you consider a boy who finds daytime pull-up wear insulting, yet still pees in his sleep, you'll probably be able to imagine it quite adequately.
On a more positive note: Baby Blue was inspired by her brother's example to drink half a dose of her own medication this morning, in a sippy cup mixed with water, and minus the adventures in vomit. Hooray!
Thanks to everyone for the blogiversary wishes. jo(e), you know full well that you're the only bloggy superstar in these comment boxes! I'm proud to say that I knew you when.
And thanks for dropping by the pixie party, Mitali!
Happy happy blogiversary!
And hooray to Baby Blue! Nothing like a little sibling rivalry.
I'm cracking up imagining real-world product testing. Does this scarf threaten to strangle when caught in a door? Do eyes fall off only to be eaten by the dog?
happy blogiversary!
and oh my, you definitely win all the awards this week.
Yes, Happy Happy blogiversay!
And poor LG, poor couch! Such bodily fluids.
I have similar reaction to the liquid meds I have to take every time I have to get a colonoscopy. Horrid stuff. But if I don't get it down then the 'flushing out' fails and I have to fast again and take the meds again. Last time the only thing that helped was a straw (which has similarities, I suppose, to a sippy cup). But the whole thing is such an ordeal - I cry, well, more like I sob, and I stall, and I gag, and I throw up, and I stall some more and cry, and moan, sob and gag some more, and wonder if life is really worth it. And I'm 33 years old! So, really, from the bottom of my heart, poor LG.
shit! I almost missed it! happy blogiversary. Sorry the kiddos still feel like poop.
oh hey, could you post something else? anything. picture of a duck, i don't care. it's just that this being your 2-year blogiversary post AND it being post number 1499...I'm OCD enough for that to make me a little nervous.
Round UP, woman! round UP! nice round numbers are your friend!
Oh, happy happy! Best thing Linda Herschman ever did was to write that annoying and incendiary article which led to the massive blogospheric flap which led me to your site. I should write her a thank-you note.
JM! I agree - post a picture of a duck!
Or are you waiting, stalling, trying to craft what must be the most lovely, inspiring, goosebump-raising 1500th post?
Oh, just go for the duck.
Happy Blogiversary!!! And I'm sorry about the whole throwing up episodes. Give that LG a hug for me.
Oh, boy, LG and M&M must be cut from the same cloth. M&M also has a phobia of medicine, no matter the type, and tends to gag and heave it back up. The chewables are even worse, in her mind, because they require . . . ah . . . chewing. And they're slightly bitter.
When we really, really have to get a painkiller into her we've sometimes resorted to infant tylenol or advil. It's more highly concentrated and doesn't taste quite so bad.
I'm glad you both enjoyed the book, though.
And I hope both kids are feeling better.
Excellent review.
Over here from Mitali's blog. I love this post and will be checking out more of your stuff. The watery Tylenol dose and gagging--yes, yes--been there. But I especially love the review, because I had been wondering if Rickshaw Girl would be appropriate for my 8 yo.
Thank you, Julie and Jennifer. And welcome to the commenting pixie party!
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