From the Mouths of Babes-Sunday Morning at 6am

During the last hour of my 3rd overnight shift in a row I had a conversation with my very alert and awake 4 year old patient while we were reading a book about bread and jam. For privacy's sake we'll call her.....um.....hmm.....Sadie:

Sadie: Albert is a boy and Frances is a girl, they are brother and sister.
Me: Do you have brothers and sisters?
Sadie: I have a sister and a daddy who's a boy.
Me: Oh....
... Sadie: All Daddy's are boys ya know.
Me: yeah, they are.
Sadie: My daddy has hair on his face and no hair on his head.
Me: Oh ok...
Sadie: I think my daddy got confused about where the hair is suppose to go.

She proceeds to hop off my lap and run over to her bed in her footy PJs where I hear her rummaging around and whispering with her mother. She runs out from behind the curtain in striped underwear carrying a stripped pair of stretch pants in one hand with a matching shirt in the other yelling "look Miss Marisa, my panties match my outfit.....I always like for my panties to match my outfit.....do your panties match your outfit?"......(trying desperately not to burst into laughter, thinking.....distraction what can I say to distract...ack!) "Oh, Sadie, how about that big green apple you ordered for breakfast, it's coming soon", she responds " Oh I love apples I eat apples every morning, let's read bread and jam again". (phew!!!!)

Thank God for A.D.D. in toddlers and for moments like these that make working overnight not so bad! :)