What Does a Boy Do With a Pink Kitchen?

Why climb it, naturally. Did we tell you about this acquisition? Discovered on a recent family bike ride, someone had just thrown this de-luxe kitchen out with the trash. I mean this thing lights up, plays music and even includes the play food and fine china. It has hours and hours of imaginative life left in it. So we just couldn’t stand to see it live out the rest of its days in some landfill. And it seems Bastien agrees.

On another note, we had Bastien’s appointment with the plastic surgeon today about his Craniosynostosis. Basically what we learned is that no one with this deformity elects not to get surgery. The doctor and staff described it as “medically necessary” though it is “our choice to make”. We decided this is what they have to say to 1. Get insurance to cover it and 2. Make sure we can’t sue them.
They see at least four patients a month with the same issue. While it is a purely cosmetic fix, I guess the consensus is it will save him from years of emotional agony. Or becoming a politician. Well that’s what the doctor said anyway. Jim likened it to getting braces. I think that’s a good way to look at it.
The surgery is no sooner than two months away. So in the meantime, we’re weighing the odds that Bastien’s pointy head will actually make him more aerodynamic and thus more likely to become a world record holding Olympian in swimming or running. It could happen, right?