*Cough*
My one year old Cher loves to imitate. Like most babies, she's tickled pink by fake coughing and we'll have long, coughing parties when she's feeling chummy. This morning I coughed in the kitchen and I heard Cher's delicate cough in return. I hammed it up and gave her a bigger cough. She reciprocated. Laughing, I faked a huge coughing fit while she went wild with her own coughing, rocking back and forth in her high chair. Then she suddenly stopped, her mouth hung open and her eyes started to water. With a gag, she spit up a huge chunk of blueberry pancake and then started screaming.
Thanks goodness she got the pancake chunk out on her own. Oblivious me would have just laughed and made fun of her while she choked to death on my delicious pancakes. Then I'd have to put something awkward on her tombstone like, "she really liked pancakes." Or better yet, "my mom is an idiot." Yeah, I'm glad we don't have to figure that out. Yet.
Thanks goodness she got the pancake chunk out on her own. Oblivious me would have just laughed and made fun of her while she choked to death on my delicious pancakes. Then I'd have to put something awkward on her tombstone like, "she really liked pancakes." Or better yet, "my mom is an idiot." Yeah, I'm glad we don't have to figure that out. Yet.
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We had a similar incident, my 4 yo was gagging, so I just assumed he was gonna puke, he was on the couch so I didn't know if I had time to get him to the bathroom, there was a towel there, so I just held it out. A few gags later, a piece of hard candy comes catapulting out.......duh, he was choking and I the only thing I was thinking was, "he's gonna puke on my couch". Yes, you do feel like a horsesbutt after such an incident.
I have no idea where he got the candy.
--Vivian Love
My youngest never choked on anything, I swear. The others...lots of stuff.
Glad your baby is OK!
oh man, i'm glad she's alright though. :)
Something like that happened with my sister. We were sitting down to dinner, having a great time teasing each other and laughing uproariously. Then she was quiet and her face turned red. We thought maybe she had laughed so hard she peed herself or something similar so we commenced with the silliness until my Dad, being more astute (and less like a jerk) than the rest of us, jumped up and performed the Heimlich maneuver. She was choking and we were making fun of her! Not our proudest family bonding moment.
You may feel bad for not recognizing what was going on, but you can console yourself with the knowledge that you still did the right thing!
"Who dieted too late."
"You're standing on my head."
"I told you I was sick."
"At least I'm finally losing weight."
I'm writing you from Sandy Utah where I am taking over the computer from my flaky new owner Rachelle.
Since she didn't have the common courtsy to let you know I'd arrived safely at my new home, I decided to grab the alpaca by the ears and do it myself.
I plan on chronicling (alpacas can't spell worth beans) my adventures with the alpacas here at conference, check in later to see my updates. I don't think I'm ever going to let that 2-legger have the computer again... she's a flake. Think she's been visiting you so often your flakiness has rubbed off?
See you soon,
J.R.
Ps... we alpacas sometimes fake our owners out the way Cher did you, we act like we're going to spit, and we're actually choking. then we rub our drooly heads all over the 2 leggers... ha-ha!