World's Weirdest Obsession

Tim told me I shouldn't keep these pictures and should just forget and definitely never admit that it ever happened.  But I can't, it's too awesome.

A couple weeks ago we went to COSI, and they have an exhibit there that is all about life and the human body.  We of course were excited to see it, but figured Brinlee wouldn't love it.  

That was not at all the case.

She was fascinated!  We spent a decent amount of time in there and were ready to move on before she was.  Toward the end of the exhibit they had a big light board with all kinds of different x-rays that you can look at, one of which was of a dog's broken leg.  And for some reason, she could not let that go.  After we got home she spent all day talking about that broken dog leg x-ray and wouldn't calm down for sleep that night until Tim had pulled up some images of x-rays on the computer for her to see one last time before bed.  He finally just printed one off for her, and she has carried it around with her ever since.  It's super weird, I know. But that tattered old "broken dog leg x-ray" paper has been more loved than most of her real toys.

We went back to COSI again today, and guess what exhibit she wanted to see first?  You'd have thought it was Christmas morning the way she lit up again when she saw that x-ray board....

SO weird. 

The poor dear, she comes by it honestly.  Our house sees a lot of science/medical stuff, I suppose it's already rubbing off.  She has a real functional stethoscope in her toy box and can listen to and tell you what a heart sounds like.  She knows that bones and muscles are under her skin and likes to look at Tim's anatomy textbook (with supervision of course, we're not that brave).  She has a toy doctor kit and, when McKenna is willing, she can walk through a pretty impressive well baby check-up.  And she's most willing to sleep and eat when we remind her that naps and green drinks help her body's "happy bugs" get rid of "sicky bugs".  

I don't know, maybe we should be trying to get this little obsession to simmer down a bit.

Then again, maybe we're raising some kind of prodigy child who will grow up to make miraculous medical discoveries...

Who knows.  

But here's to our good friend, Broken Dog Leg X-Ray!