Why was she puking, you ask? The little darling swallowed a penny, and it was lodged in her esophagus. It only too 3 hospital trips to 2 different hospitals to figure it out, too!

It’s an inside joke.

I’m pretty sure that neither of my children developed powerful puke muscles until they were toddlers. When you’ve been hit at close range, by a sick 15 month, you’ll long for the simpler days of the continual spit up from a newborn.

A newborn can really only mess up one garment at a time. A toddler has a lot more volume to work with, and they’re mobile, so they can spew over a whole area. Fortunately for the carpet, my children both preferred to throw up on me. When they felt sick, they wanted to be held by daddy. Once they were safely in my arms, they could relax a little and spew all over me.

My chart would be titled “where my children puke” and the whole disk would be “on daddy”. I’ve met other families, where the mom was the preferred puke target. Still other children were equal opportunity pukers, and would go for whichever parent was closest.

Oh, bummer, none of this was funny.

That made it much better.