Almost on a daily basis we pretend play "doctor" at our house. We have a doctor's kit and a veterinarian kit Aubrey was given on previous birthdays. Lucy has taken to the stethoscope in both toys fondly :).
This morning was a "doctor's visit" that made me smile, so I want to remember this one.
Aubrey sat down and was ready to see her patient. I handed her a little monkey stuffed animal named Mollie. She quickly took a quick glance at the monkey and asked, "So what's been bothering her?"
I answered, "Her tummy and she keeps pulling at her ear."
Aubrey checked Mollie's ears and said they were clear. She then took her blood pressure and checked her heart rate; both were fine. She nonchalantly asked, "Has anyone been sick?"
I assumed she meant if anyone had been sick around Mollie. I said that her sister was. At that moment Lucy was crawling under a cover we had made a tent with and without blinking an eye Aubrey asked, "What is her sister doing?"
I laughed out loud as Lucy got out from under the tented blanket and gave us a huge smirk.
Aubrey continued to do a thorough checkup on Mollie. She then turned her over and said, "Her stuffing is falling out. Maybe that's why she's not feeling well. Maybe her stuffing is itching her and bothering her."
I couldn't have diagnosed the problem any better :). Web MD had nothing on Doctor Aubrey. Aubrey went on to fix Mollie's stuffing dilemma and gave her some medicine for the pain and to help her feel better. She also said that Mollie earned a lollipop for doing so well :).
It struck me as funny that in her three years of life Aubrey has picked up on so much and she said things that the doctor has said to her or Lucy verbatim! Adult language coming from a three year old's pretend play was just too cute. She's not in med school yet, but she sure is pretty good with her bedside manner :).
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