First crush (possible House spoiler, btw)

I'm pretty sure Delaney has a crush on Chase from House M.D. All of a sudden she has a new imaginary friend named Chase (although the original imaginary friend, Saga, is still around to take the blame for Delaney's wrongdoing). And she keeps talking about the "ending from House" - she snuck out of bed Monday night at 8:45 and I wasn't about to miss the ending. Last night she said "tell me about the ending from House" and I said "when they got married?" and she said "yeah. I'm that girl".

Delaney the yogi

My mom was struggling with getting Delaney out of her carseat and getting frustrated. She muttered an "arrgh" or something and Delaney said "take a deep breath".

She said the same to me when I was complaining about my new-ish jeans falling apart.

Musical what?

Delaney was taking care of some potty business the other day and I was whistling a tune. She asked me why I was whistling while she peed - "because my pee sounded kinda musical?"

Changing gears here

Getting away from the funny for a bit, I don't want to jinx it, but I feel compelled to document Delaney's unusual fascination with all things related to medicine. As I noted in previous posts, she absolutely has to watch anything to do with doctors or hospitals, even if it's just a commercial. She wanted to watch a doctor show tonight and the only thing that was on was Scrubs, so we watched for a bit. She probably asked me a dozen questions in as many minutes. When it was over, I picked a mild episode of Medical Mysteries on OnDemand, about a boy whose kidneys could not break down cystiene. She asked me all kinds of questions about his symptoms, and when it was over she wanted to look at pictures of kidneys in my Anatomy & Physiology book. We spent a good 10 minutes looking at it.





Earlier in the day she spent another 10 minutes looking at the bone chapter again. When I tried to turn the page to show her something else, she got irritated and said "turn it back to where I was!"





She had an ear infection about a month ago and she naturally wanted to know why, "why" being her favorite word. I figured since she had shown so much interest already, I'd tell her something close to the truth. I told her she had "bugs" in her ears that were making her sick, and when she asked what they looked like, I showed her a picture of a streptococcus organism. She hasn't stopped asking about those bugs, so I'm thinking she might enjoy one of these:








Yes, it's a Streptococcus pyogenes plush toy.

Dr. Delaney - no seriously

Delaney spent a good 10-15 minutes tonight looking at my Anatomy & Physiology book. She's fascinated by the bones and the muscles. She asks me all the time if she can look at it, and at my "book about being sick" - my Pathophysiology book.

She also absolutely has to see any commercials about doctors or hospitals.

Paging Dr. Delaney

Naney wanted to take her doctor kit to day care today, in case she needed to give her friend Louie a shot. I kept telling her that she's not allowed to bring her own toys to day care, but every time I said it, she had a different argument for why she needed to - among them being that she's House. As in House M.D.

Brown = stinky

My mom has this brown coat that Delaney apparently hates. She kept making comments to my mom about her "icky brown coat". Later that day they were in the car and my mom said "something kinda smells bad in here" and Delaney said "maybe it's that brown coat"