all better

thank gawd we're out of the hospital. there really isn't much worse in the world than being cooped up in a small airless room with a sick baby for three days. it's a special kind of hell.
luckily, i think we have the most patient child in the world and he hardly complained - i, um, wasn't as good. i had to dig deep and find my warm safe place.
the very worst thing was the high pitched beeping noise the IV machine made when it was done. it'd fire off every two hours just as i drifted off to sleep not at all phasing the baby but sending a piercing jolt through my body and instantly spurring hot sweats. i have deep empathy for torture victims now.
the most fun thing about being married to tayloe is his sense of humor and it really peaks in front of an un-suspecting audience. nurses are just about the most un-suspecting audience there is, especially the pediatric kind, because i think they expect parents to be very serious and concerned and such.
tayloe had an especially good time with penny, who believed pretty much everything he said, including (1) he wasn't tay's dad, (2) he wasn't my husband (3) we weren't sure who tay's dad was, (4) i'd had 6 husbands, and (5) he was the secret sultry lover of the crocodile hunter who just died.
on the way out, a sweet, small asian lady helped us with our things.
tayloe: "whoa, honey. i sure hope we can get all of this on the motorcycle."
no reaction, so he tried again.
tayloe: "this is a lot to put on the MOTORcycle, but i think we'll manage. t2 will just have to sit on the handle bars."
asian lady: "you ride bike?"
tayloe (pleased): "oooh yes. i ride the big bikes. bmw right honey? and this is going to be a particular challenge but i think we can do it. right honey?"
asian lady: "you'll put all this on bike?"
tayloe: "yessss sireee. it'll be fine. we don't have far to go."
asian lady: "hmmm. you might have to come back for wife?"
tayloe: "now that's a good idea. kitty, you just hang out. you don't mind staying here another hour or so do you?"
asian lady (concerned): "you really ride bike? (to me) he ride bike?"
me: "no. no. we have a car with a car seat and everything. we're driving a car."
asian lady (confused now): "you have car and bike?"
me: "tayloe. explain to her that we have a car."
tayloe: "well we have a hummer."
asian lady: "ooohhh, a hummer."
me: "no, no. we don't have a hummer. we have a volkswagen".
tayloe: "no we have a hummer. remember? you gave me that hummer a few days ago..."
there was more, but those are the highlights.