Bad Eyes

Since I have been cracking up over this all morning, I decided I'd share and maybe give you something to smile about for a few minutes.

This morning, as I prepared to go to work, I was getting Addison's stuff together to go spend the day with Jenna and Joe. I walked towards her room to get some clothes and noticed she was sitting straight up in the bed.....which is highly unusual this time of the morning. I usually pull her straight out of the bed to leave - when she goes to stay with them.

When I stopped briefly to see what she was going to do next, she pulled her comforter towards her face and began rubbing her eyes. She's had a cold this week, but nothing major, so I wasn't sure what she was doing. After rubbing them once, she laid the comforter down and then picked it back up and started scrubbing at her eyes again. She did this a total of 4 times before I walked on into her room to see if I might be able to help.

As I got closer, I realized her eyes were matted quite a bit with "cold." I asked her what was wrong, and with this "look" - hair everywhere, eyes barely open, and a look of confusion, she informed me, "Mommy, my eyes are crooked." I almost howled my head off. I took off to the bathroom to grab a warm washcloth to help her out and could barely see to walk because I was near tears laughing.

Don't know why it struck me so funny, but I thought it was just hilarious. The perception of children is so unpredictable that you just never know what's coming next.

Just thought I'd share......

This is now my new tiny compiled list of medical complaints in Addison's terms:

- stuffy nose - " Mommy, I can't smell"
- matted eyes - "Mommy, my eyes are crooked"

..........I'll keep adding as they come. I'm sure there are more, but my mind has a block right this second. Sometimes it is IMPOSSIBLE for me not to laugh at her - even when she's miserable.