Medicinal observations

Yesterday Mommy picked up some prescription pills from the pharmacy to help manage her lower back pain. As with most prescription bottles nowadays, you can put the lid on upside-down to make it non-childproof. And since most childproof bottle caps manage to elude Mommy, she decided to put it on upside down.

Todd spied the bottle, picked it up and observed, "It's upside-down!" He handed it to Oma to fix. After she did, he wagged his finger at her and said in his most grown-up, authoritative voice: "Remember, don't put it on upside-down!"

Now that the bottle cap was fixed, he examined the bottle, and became curious about the pills inside. He begged Oma to open it so he could look through the "hole" (the opening of the bottle). When that wasn't satisfactory, he asked to take one out.

Oma strictly admonished him that medicine was not for playing with.

But Todd wasn't going to play with it, as he pointed out: "You can put it on my hand, and I can look at it!"

We reached a compromise by letting him look at a pill resting in Oma's hand instead :-)