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March 13, 2007
How sweet it is

It has just come to my attention that Hershey’s has a new chocolate syrup bottle design. Gone is the pull up cap from yesterday, replaced by a sanitary, easily operated hinged flip top. Rejoice fellow germaphobes, rejoice! There is not a person reading this that can honestly claim to have never sucked the syrup off the old style push up Hershey’s cap – not a one! When you eat ice cream topped with syrup from a contaminated Hershey’s cap, you’re eating ice cream that has been contaminated by every cap that cap has been with and so forth and so on. So thank you Hershey’s for this long over due re-design! The only 100% effective way to avoid ice cream contamination is to abstain from eating it in the first place, but thanks to the new flip top cap enjoying cootie free chocolate syrup just got a little easier.

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March 5, 2007
Buried treasure

I was changing Karis’s poopy diaper last night before her bath when I noticed a little something extra. Buried in her recycled carrots and peas was a small round metal object. I fished it out of the diaper with a Q-tip and washed it off. It appeared to be a washer or grommet of some sort. I shook my head in exasperation.
How is this child still alive? More to the point, how is it that she can eat small bits of hardware from God-knows-where but she can’t handle eating tiny pieces of cooked carrots without triggering her gag reflex?
People tell me I’m over reacting when I get upset about finding little surprises that have literally traveled through my daughter’s digestive tract. I don’t scream or faint or anything, but I do give a sigh of gratitude that whatever it is has made it out the other end with no detectable problems. You hear all the time about little Junior swallowing a penny and how funny it is a few days later when it gets passed – but rarely do you hear the horror stories I’ve witnessed first hand. Well, I’ve witnessed them happen to beloved family pets, not babies, but their obsession with eating EVERYTHING they can get their paws on is the same.
What may seem like harmless dental floss or pretty Christmas tree tinsel to you, is actually a deadly obstructer when it is eaten and becomes tangled in one’s bowels.

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