The Joker

Samantha Joy has pretty bad reflux. The doctor has us giving her a Prevacid tablet in the morning, and half a tablet at night. It's really just medicine packed in a sugar substrate. Not like adult pills. They dissolve very quickly in her mouth. I'm on duty from 4:30 AM till 7:00, so I will frequently give her the AM dose. I put the pill in, and she kept trying to push it out. Once it dissolved, she wouldn't swallow and was trying to get the spit out of her mouth. Eventually she just barfed out her mouth and nose. Yay. I cleaned her off and got Chris up and we tried again. This time we gave her half, then once she was done with that half we gave her the other half. It was messy, but most of it went down. The rest was all over her mouth. I didn't clean it off right away, and it dried. With the white around her mouth, I thought she looked like the Joker. I picked her up and sat with Chris and we laughed and laughed at the clownface she had.

Then she gave us a really big grin and beamed at us while we laughed. I felt bad that we were laughing at her misfortune when she probably thought we were playing with her.

But that smile... it melts my heart. She's got me wrapped around her finger.