Em withe the NYET is hilarious! Teach her to drink tea through a sugar cube.

Much ~ma for you BiL and MiL and all of you, Cashmere.

I'm sure there was other stuff I meant to respond to, but my brain's capacity is strikingly low.

I just dropped my tongs between the gap in the wall and the cabinet. I guess it's lost forever.

I liked those tongs.

Aaaaannnnnddd...in her forays from the tub into the computer room, she has soaked the floor, which is vinyl, and this has resulted in a fabulous slip and fall with a twist. She now has a beautiful red mark on the side of her face from her wipeout.

"Are you ok?"

t sobbing "Ye-hes-hes-hes."

"Are you done with your bath?"

"Ye-hes-hes-hes."

"Let's go put on jammers and have stories."

"NY-HET-HET-HET."

Oh, poor Em, but the sobbing nyet is too adorable.

Behind the cabinet, askye, or might you fish it out with an appropriately narrow broomstick or dowel?

Hiccups. Totally natural in babies, right? I don't have to sneak up on her and try to scare them out of her, do I? (babysitting a 6 wk old)

-t, unfortunately no. There's a little bit of a wall that makes up part of the doorway to the kitchen and the cabinet is up against that.

The house is weirdly built. The cabinets look like they were built later and there's a 1" wide gap.

Maybe if I moved the stove. I stopped cooking meat at home after I flipped a couple of pieces behind the stove and had to move it to remove it.

Oy, meat behind the cabinet sounds like a terrible thing. Yeuch. I guess you need to ask yourself how much you like those tongs? I don't guess a magnet would work, one of those extendable pointer things with a magnet in the end?

I'm no expert, but I'd guess baby hiccups are nothing to worry about. Maybe a little extra burping downn the road?

Hiccups. Totally natural in babies, right? I don't have to sneak up on her and try to scare them out of her, do I? (babysitting a 6 wk old)

Nope. You're fine. No scaring the baby.

Thanks -t. (And Aims) I got a little nervous and then I finally googled, so now I'm back to enjoying the wee infant. I just didn't want to google and have the first result be some horrible "my baby had hiccups that caused a heart defect because the babysitter didn't burp her fast enough after feeding her" horror story.

I've been around a lot of infants but I've never seen infant hiccups before. I guess I can check that off the list.

(The computer room is a smallish bedroom right off the bathroom so I'm only about 6 feet away from her for those moms (and dads) that involuntarily gasped at the thought of not being on the child whilst in the tub.)

Once kids get older, they can be trusted for a bit. We bathe O and Liv together so we usually leave O in there while we dress Liv. He does ok, but he also went through the phase where he would jump in and out of the tub because he could.