It goes something like this:

Hack, Hack, Cough, HACK

Then the chorus from upstairs

WAAAAIIIILLLLLL!! WAIL!!!! CRY!! Cough

Back downstairs

Sigh, Shudder, Hack, Hack, Cough

Back upstairs

WAIL!!!!!!!!!!! Cough, Cough, Cough

Downstairs
(whispered) please go to sleep little girl
(booming & reverberating) Hack, Hack, COUGH!

Upstairs

AAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!


And I'm actually thankful for this pattern, dear reader, because it was preceded by three good strong rounds of vomit. From the girl. Right after tylenol and trimenic strip. Remember those good ol' days of "spit up." They are long gone.

I can only be grateful that the child had the forethought to refuse to eat any of her dinner earlier in the evening. I'm not sure I'd have ever been able to face kiwi fruit again.

I am tired. I am so, so tired.

Feel sorry for me?