The Future of Anesthesiology

Kirke is giving the Grand Rounds lecture at his department conference this week. The title of his talk is, "The Future of Anesthesiology," so of course he recruited Alice to pose for some photos to use as visual aids.

Her intubating technique could use some work -- and you should always wear gloves when coming in patient contact -- but she sure does look cute in those Wisconsin scrubs!

Car seat

Alice has developed a renewed interest in babies & taking care of babies since the birth of her friend Emma and, more recently, her cousin Alma. She still loves to wrap up her dolls in swaddling blankets, feed her dolls, and push her dolls on the baby swingset, but now she has also started to put her dolls in any unclaimed carseat or bassinet she might find, and then try to carry her dolls around just like the way big people carry their babies.

Putting the chickens to roost

Alice has progressed from barely noticing the chickens a few months ago to now constantly wanting to help take an active role in caring for them. The chickens somewhat tolerate her, in turn, and occasionally leave an egg for her to find. This video is very long...

Nice Job Painting, whoo!

Alice carefully mixes blue, red, and green paints together to make just the right shade of brown to spread all over her face and smock. She needs lots of positive reinforcement from Daddy to keep the brush mostly on the canvas.

Tricycle

Alice's legs still aren't quite long enough to reach the pedals on her tricycle, but that's ok for now because she much prefers pushing her Dolly around, anyway.

Independence Day

We spent 4th of July weekend at Grandma & Grandpa's; most of the time was spent relaxing along the lakefront at our good family friends' house. Alice had so much fun playing in the water, bouncing on inner tubes, reading bad pulp fiction, and helping spread sunscreen all over everyone, that she skipped her usual afternoon nap and then ended up sleeping right through the fireworks! We were actually really disappointed, because we'd bought special earmuffs for her, just like Drew Brees got for his kid for the SuperBowl. Alice does seem to enjoy wearing her earmuffs around the house, though! Maybe it's because then she can pretend that she doesn't hear Daddy say, "No!" when she grabs the tv remote.

Personal Cherry Picker

Having already nearly trained Alice to fetch him a beer from the garage at dinner, Daddy is now working on getting Alice to be his own personal cherry picker, taster, and feeder.