The rest of the story . . .

So, here is the rest of the story . . .
Tali brought me the bottle of Childrens' Tylenol and I videoed her demonstrating just how she got it down by herself. She is our little monkey . . . make that our third little monkey. So, I shut the closet and Matt posted the video online because her dialogue was just so funny.

My mom immediately e-mailed me to say I should probably move the medicine. "Of course," I thought, "I will do that soon. But it's probably okay for now because it's all childrens' medicine and now the door is shut!" So, the very next day, Tali brought me a bottle of Childrens' cough medicine. But this time it was OPEN! And all over her shirt and FACE!

So, we did some calculations and decided she drank about 1/4 of the bottle - yummy! We made our first call to Poison Control. (They are very nice, by the way.) The lady on the phone said she was not in danger, but that there would be side effects.

So, this is what happens when your toddler drinks four servings of Childrens' cough medicine:

• First she becomes very sleepy, but you have to keep her awake for at least an hour.
• After an hour, you will probably lay her in bed. By then she will be SO tired, but also VERY restless and unable to fall asleep.
• So you'll get her up and she'll become very grumpy and whiny and keep saying she feels yucky.
• Finally, after two more hours, she will start to calm down and act normal.
• Then she will fill her diaper with a substance resembling a runny chocolate shake (but warm).
• Then you will try to put her to bed again and she will become very angry.
• So you'll rock her and sing to her and she will start scratching her arms and legs uncontrollably.
• So, you'll give her a blessing.
• Finally she'll go to sleep and wake twice during the night, once a little poopy and once very disoriented.
• The next morning she'll wake up poopy, again, but happy and VERY hungry.
• Finally, if she's not smart enough to learn her lesson about drinking directly from the medicine bottle and goes looking for drugs again, they will be in a medicine cabinet . . . locked!