A Funny Nose Knows [#4]

How to open medicine bottles and subsequently REALLY scare Mommy.

Jake recently had a cold and as per usual now has a lingering cough. We have been trying to determine for some time now whether it is allergies, borderline asthma or just his body's way of getting over a cold but the Singular the doctor prescribed for him a couple of allergy seasons ago does seem to help. So I took it out of the cabinet the other night to remind myself to start giving it to him before bed. Flash forward to the next morning when again as per usual we are rushing to get ready for a play date when I tell Jadyn to go to the bathroom to brush her teeth. I follow her in there maybe 30 seconds later to find her fishing pills out of the open bottle. I immediately take the bottle from her, look at her sternly and ask her how many of the chewable cherry flavored pills she ate to which she replies, "uno". Now I really hate to leave everybody in suspense but have I mentioned how much Jadyn loves Dora the Explorer? Or that she is actually learning to speak Spanish from watching the show? So yes, she is counting in Spanish. She also says arriba (up), abajo (down) espera (wait), ayudar me (help me) and of course hola (hello). So anyway, as calmly as possible I ask her, "Did you take dos?". She shakes her head no. "Did you take tres?" She shakes her no. I dump all the pills out and count 23. The prescription was for 30. I know I have given Jake at least 1 the past 3 nights, if not more the last time he was having problems so I figure at this point worst case, she swallowed 4 pills. I call poison control just to confirm and they ensure me that even if she swallowed 4 pills she would be perfectly fine but I still think she was telling the truth when she said she only took one - or should I say uno. You know, if wasn't such a serious situation, I would have laughed. It was so cute to hear her respond like that. And yes, the bottle of pills are now safely back out of reach.