It's exhausting....
It's heart-warming....
It is intellectually stimulating....
And it is a basket of fun!!
Astute observers may ask, what's with the tape on Micah's ear? It is a doctor-supervised, non-surgical intervention for the correction of protruding ears. Little tyke's cartilege isn't hardened up at birth, so can be re-molded a bit. Apparently this is quite common in other parts of the world, with mamas pinching noses and sticking ears to the head with chewing gum to fit a cultural norm. And while protruding ears are taken as a sign of good fortune in other parts of the world, they tend to draw nicknames like Mickey Mouse here, so we're trying to gently convince them back. Its just tape and wax, so we figure it can't hurt and he might thank us for it later.....
He will thank you for it later. My mum used to stick my ears back with band aids. Alas, it didn't work. My ears stuck out so much that when my hair was combed the comb could rip through the top of my ear and it hurt! In year 4 my parents send me to hospital to have them pinned back (surgically). So glad my parents did that when I was young enough to not suffer years of taunting.
ReplyDeletelove the Satre pose! What a cutie! x
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