Warning: This post is about vomit.

When D was quite small she came up with the term "uh-oh mouth" to describe nausea and vomit. It's a versatile phrase that can be a noun or a verb (i.e. "to have uh-oh mouth"). Readers, I invite you all to incorporate this fun new expression into your vocabulary!

This past weekend, uh-oh mouth was in the house bigtime. D had some kind of 24-hour flu bug, or else some flash food poisoning. She threw up 5 or 6 times and spent most of Saturday on the futon. Luckily, she was so articulate about how she was feeling that we were able to provide a garbage can receptacle in time for every incident of uh-oh mouth. In fact, she was quite reflective about the whole experience as it was happening. Case in point: at 4am, she asked, "Why I'm having uh-oh mouth all night long and we're not even in the car and I didn't turn around and around?" (Background info: she gets carsick and once threw up at daycare because she made herself dizzy spinning in circles.) She then talked about how we shouldn't have any visitors because she was sick, and she shouldn't go to daycare because she was sick, and she should watch lots of movies because she was sick.

It made for a very mellow weekend; fortunately, we didn't have much planned anyway. She and I left the house once on Saturday to go for a walk and once on Sunday to go to the pharmacie. It was dark outside when we walked to the drugstore and so D brought along this little light-up keychain thing, pretending it was a flashlight. She pointed it at me, saying, "Let me see if you're really my mom" and pointed it down at the ground as we crossed the park, saying, "Let me see if there are really leaves. Oh - yah."

At the Jean Coutu, she had some money to spend (actually a handful of pennies) and she chose to buy a new kind of toothpaste and some baby forks and spoons. She was disappointed that the cashier didn't actually take her money. I let her buy a trinket from a machine on the way out. She got a mini Snow White and that really made her day. Snow White broke in two shortly after we arrived back home but LePapa fixed her with crazy glue and she's been fine ever since. As has D.