He may look like a baby who just kicked crawling in the butt, but in actuality Luki has been sick for the past few days. It started with a runny nose and some chest congestion, and then, over the weekend, I noticed he was a little warm and discovered he had a slight fever.

When we saw that he was remaining still for more than thirty seconds at a time, we figured something must really be wrong, so Ton Ton stayed home from work yesterday and took him to the doctor. The diagnosis? Double ear infection!

My poor baby!

They put him on a round of antibiotics and he’s been doing much better for the last 24 hours or so. And by much better, I mean he has been walking/climbing/crawling/opening-and-closing-kitchen-cabinets without so much as a millisecond break to catch his breath.

As sad as I am about his ear infections, his visit to the pediatrician helped clear up a little issue we’ve been having with our son.

You see, when the doctor looked in his left year, she couldn’t see whether it was infected or not because he had too much wax in there. Can you believe it? All that wax and he’s not even one!

There is a reasonable explanation for this: Even though Luki looks exactly like me, he seems to have inherited his father’s exceptional ability to produce ear wax. I googled it and it is hereditary.

Every few years, Ton Ton has to go to the doctor to have his ear canal irrigated and he always comes home talking about how everything sounds so much sharper and no wonder his bandmates kept telling him to lower the volume on his guitar. (I’m sorry, was that more information that you needed to know? Do you not come here to read about my husband’s ear secretions? I apologize for that.)

The point I’m trying to make is that the candle factory in Luki’s left ear totally explains why he’s been ignoring us every single time we tell him to stop licking the electrical cords. Or leave the remote control alone. Or please, for the love of God, do not open the kitchen cabinets and suck on the Windex!

It’s not that he’s headstrong…it’s that he couldn’t hear us! Poor baby. So young and so misunderstood.

What? You want to know how come he immediately starts to pay attention any time the words saltine, banana, or strawberry come out of our mouths?

Obviously, his right ear is reserved for food related matters only.