Can hiccups get rid of hiccups?

Mark bought groceries today but couldn't get them out of the trunk because for some reason Melanie's car key and car weren't getting along. Back home, Liam had hiccups again, so we tried an experiment -- can watching yourself have hiccups get rid of hiccups? The answer, within the following video is: maybe! Unfortunately it may have also had the side-effect of shrinking him.

Hiccups, Books and Body Sounds

There are a few pledges about child-raising that Melanie and I made to each other when she was pregnant. One of them was a commitment to keeping things simple toy-wise and gift-wise. Walking through any toy department can overwhelm you with stuff that kids used to use their imagination to create. As the joke goes, young kids are often more excited about the packaging than the gift. When I was a kid the only and best hellicopter I played with was by dropping a leaf and watching it fall. I could spend hours with a stream and a stick or weeks with a tetherball set. There's something positive about getting the most out of one thing as well as the simple educational gifts like letter blocks. We pledged to each other to not buy our kid lots of stuff. Last night however, already exhausted, Mark would not go to sleep because he was obsessed with finding more cool books for Liam's library -- its much easier to commit to not buying stuff for your kid before they are born. Melanie is sticking with the plan. We've already received so many wonderful gifts from people -- stuff we can and do use -- we really don't need anything more for him at this stage. Melanie's been giving Liam top-notch play-time, love and milk -- someday in the future there will likely be a photo of milk coming out his nose within a blog entry named "Milk Drunk". Prior to that: photos of his Aunts & Uncles.







Unique Toddler Books

Liam woke in Mark's arms this morning though Mark got little sleep. Melanie is feeling a bit better these days. The following video contains a secret to eliminating hiccups that is 100% successful for ADULTS. Mark learned this secret from his mother.