Medical Breakthroughs

Addie J is really getting into this being dead thing; she’s lying on the ground to my left right now in fact, yelling, “Mommy, I’m dead!  I’m very, very dead!”  I think I’m going to submit an paper to the New England Journal of Medicine, because thanks to the J I’ve learned a whole list of things that can raise the dead:

1. Gum.  Always, always gum.

2. Donuts, or the prospect of getting donuts.

3.  The movie G Force.  [Side note: my brother-in-law Brandy won't even see this movie, or any other movie that features rodents.]

4. The suspicion that her siblings are doing something cool in another room.

5. Dog biscuits.  (Yep.)

Through trial and error I have also learned that the following things will NOT raise her from the dead:

1. Dinnertime.

2. Having to pee.

3. Her mother asking her to get up.

4. Fruit, crackers, or wholesome snacks of any kind.

5. Tickling.  (This merely enrages her.)

I’ll keep doing my research; I think I’m onto something.