Scenes From A Day In The Life Of A New Mama

1. Waiting for the MRI photographs, Children's Memorial Hospital, 1st floor, Medical Imaging desk: Finn asleep in his carrier. Me flipping through Organic Gardening learning about vermicompost and reading advertisements for books such as Chickens in Your Backyard. Directly across from us a Goldberg device, teeter totter turtle, balls flipping into dumptrucks, constant movement, up the line, down, pitch and catch between, cat face hovering. To the right of that the fattest pork pie of a baby I've EVER seen (pink sweat suit potpie cheeks so big they scrunch mouth into fishface) with skinny sexy mama in wait and daddy keeps looking at me holding that FAT kiddo. She screams, he pats her soccer ball belly and takes her over to look at the device. To the left of the Goldberg a west Asian dialect loud on the cell phone, dad waiting for mom and kid. A little chunk girl, named Madelyn, says "I don't like clowns!" while pointing at a colored clown picture hung on the desk. I'd already heard one little girl express the same sentiment to her brother who kept tormenting her with a red toy clown nose. Then chunks says, "That clown doesn't have a hat," pointing at the colored clown who, clearly, was wearing a blue hat.


2. Outside sidewalk leaving hospital: Woman in clown suit pink hair offering kid in wheelchair a clown nose. Kid in wheelchair shrinks back, teeth exposed, crying (parents laughing).


3. Waiting for Tow Truck, corner of Harrison & Ogden: Wait in the grass where it's nicer. Finn happy with hungry Gerber baby face, until riding lawn mower disturbs us back to the broke down car, where he metamorphosizes into a red faced gremlin.