Dr. Amber

Amber came home from bible study with a rug burn on her back from playing too hard. We put her to bed, but heard her in the kitchen shortly after that. She had a baggie full of ice for her rug burn. I made her put it in a second baggie, and off she went. In the morning she handed me the two soggy empty baggies . . . . pretty much empty. She said “I think they leaked”. I’m not sure where, but somewhere in her bed is a pretty wet spot (they were full of ice). Oh well.

We had put the kids to bed when we heard Amber, she came down to the landing on the stairs. Both Mike and I were trying to understand her, the only thing we really got was something about “Beauty sleep”. “She needed her beauty sleep or she would have dark circles under her eyes and she already had a little bit of a circle, but she needed her beauty sleep.” And she had something small and pink in her hand. Mike and I just told her to go to bed and laughed after she left. The next morning I saw something pink in the garbage. When I was brushing her hair she had something pink stuck in her hair. I finally put it together, she had gone in the medicine cabinet, taken out the pink ear plugs for swimming and put them in last night so she could get her beauty sleep. Somehow they managed to get in her hair and it was stuck big time, what a mess. I tried to tell her not to put those in her ears again, they were for swimming. But Amber insisted they helped her get her beauty sleep.

One night when Amber was sick with a bad cold I let her sleep with me. Mike was out of town in Arizona at his best friends wedding, so we had the whole bed to ourselves. Amber was coughing and very restless. In the middle of the night she sat up and said her ear hurt. I’m thinking, oh no not an ear infection, I’m going to have to get her to the doctor tomorrow. So Amber tells me to go get her a cup. I’m thinking “what?”. But our Amber is known for being creative and doing her own thing, so I go get her a plastic cup. She holds it up to her ear and says it helps and goes back to sleep, no problem. We never did have to go to the doctor, no ear infection. I don’t know. I’m always telling Amber “don’t self medicate” as she always comes up with these things, but maybe she knows more than I think. Maybe she will be a doctor some day.