My Excitable Weekend

Well I had an excitable weekend. Pawpaw Tam was at my house on Saturday morning. Him, Daddy, and Uncle Earl built me a playground in my backyard. It’s just like the one I have at school only I don’t have to take turns with anyone on this playground. I helped them a lot. Mommy gave me some yummy cherry tasting medicine this morning because she said my leg was swollen where some mow-skeet-o bit me apparently. All I know was it was itchy and the medicine helped. By lunch time I was really tired so I went inside with Mommy and Bubba and I took a nap. When I woke up Nana and Aunt Laverne were at my house too. Mommy freaked out about my leg when she changed my diaper. She called the pediatrician on call and he told her she was being silly. That made Mommy mad. She took my pants off and walked around showing everyone my leg. It had started becoming itchy again. When Aunt Tiffany and Uncle Todd showed up they told Mommy I needed to see a doctor. Mommy put some clothes on me and we all went into Cullman to see a doctor. We waited in the waiting room for 2 hours. I was having a lot of fun. Everyone thought I was really funny except Mommy. I was climbing on the furniture, running around all over the room, and talking really loud. Everyone was laughing at me, except Mommy. I don’t know where her sense of humor was. She must have left it at home. Daddy even thought I was being funny. Anyway, it was worth a few spankings to me. Those poor sick people in the waiting room where bored until I got there. I cheered them all up! We were in the waiting room for so long that I even got to eat M&M’s for supper! When I finally got to see the doctor he told Mommy that my leg was in really bad shape. He said that I needed to go to the ER because I needed stronger medicine than what he had there. So then we loaded back up and went to the ER. Mommy and Daddy stopped and bought me some chicken fingers and French fries on the way. I must have fell asleep because when I woke up there was a nurse sticking something in my ear. She asked Mommy a bunch of questions and then she took us back to a little bed with a curtain around it. There must have been a girl my age in the bed on the other side of the curtain. I heard her talking my language. The doctor came in and I don’t know what he was doing to her but she screamed for EVER!! Her Mommy should have brought her a sucker. When the doctor decided to leave her alone he came over to me. He looked at my leg and told Mommy a few things. A few minutes later a man came in and he hurt me!! He stuck something into my leg and made me cry. When he finished Mommy picked me up and snuggled with me for a while. I didn’t cry for near as long as that little girl had. Mommy said it’s because I am big. When they finally let us leave I was exhausted. I fell asleep in my carseat and didn’t wake up until the next morning when it was time to get ready for church. I don’t know what a mow-skeet-o is but I hope they leave me alone from now on. I didn’t even get to enjoy my new playground. I guess that will be a good adventure for next weekend.

-Phillip Earl Howell