Mom: She's been pulling her ears and is completely inconsolable.
Doctor: (looking in baby's ears)Yeah, her right ear is pretty red. I'll give you a round of amoxicillin.

Mom:(looking grateful) Thank you, doctor, you big brave guy, you.

Late Friday afternoon. Dad: : Honey, I have to get to class.
Mom:  Yes, and we need to get the kids. I do not want to take the sick baby out to pick you up whenever you and your nerd computer lab partners decide to come home. We won't even go into(sarcasm) getting Russell to go anywhere on a Friday night.
Dad: Oh, yeah. (wince) Point taken.
Fast forward to a half hour later.

Scene: Baby nursing mom on bed while 7 year old bounces all over the room.

Russell:  Mom, don't you think Luigia is cool?
Mom: Um, sure. (Recognizing that Russell has watched the Pokemon 2000 video about 20 times since Christmas.)
Russell: Can I watch a video?
Mom:  (wishing for peace and quiet)Sure honey.
Baby:  Slurp, giggle.
Russell comes running back down the hall...
Russell:  Mom, I can't get the video to work.
Mom:  Okay, I'll be out in a few minutes.

Mom starts down the hall in time to have baby puke down her front. It appears to be something out of some weird horror flick. Mom is standing in her professional work clothes wondering if she's going to have to change her bra.

Mom: RUSSELL!!
Russell:  Yeah, mom...Oh, gross!
Mom:  I am going to put your sister in the tub and you have to watch her for a few minutes

Mom peels off baby's clothes, her own clothes and then puts about two inches of water in the tub with the bath seat and cleans the hallway carpet lickety-split and pulls Pukey baby from the tub to dry her off. Mom sniffs head of Pukey baby and realizes she really does need her hair washed and commences to do so.

Mommy takes baby to chair and rocks her to sleep and puts her in the crib. 45 minutes later, the baby wakes screaming in a pool of her own vomit.

Mommy strips the bed, bathes the baby and calls the doctor.

Mommy surrenders on the idea of keeping anything but a diaper on her child and turns up the heat. (Screw the power bill in California!)

Doctor calls back to tell mommy to skip the dose of amoxicillin till baby's tummy settles down.

duh.