" Martha laughed abruptly, a harsh barking sound in the stillness of the dining room. "You don't think... well why don't you come upstairs and see for...yourself then? She turned and headed for the staircase, and I followed her perforce. We kept bumping into each other all the way up the stairs, and I started to hush her when we reached the landing so that we didn't wake Janet. She brushed me off sharply. "You couldn't get her up with a cattle prod; now quit being such an idiot." Upon entering my. Most things at this booth were all slightly off, weird trinkets, doodads, and baubles. Ben thought it all look like import stuff, but even for import stuff it was odd. ‘Oh no, just looking at the egg thingies here,’ Coco said, putting the egg back, it’s face returning to a neutral-bored expression, ‘they just look like a toy that was made when we were younger.’ ‘Yep, we’re remaking them,’ the nurse booth girl attendant said, ‘these are exclusive’s for this convention only.’ Coco actually looked. . or a UTI or something...'Suddenly the door opened and Ivy came in, flipping the light on. My eyescomplained at the sudden brightness, but I was so grateful to have a wayout of the mess."What's wrong sweetie?" she asked as she picked me up. Her nose wrinkledthough and she said, "Never mind, Mommy knows what's wrong. Let's getthat icky diapee changed," she said soothingly.She carried me gingerly, like a grenade about to go off... well italready had, I needed her to clean it up! "Why don't you. We had the package fairly well laid out, but there were some finishing touches that we thought we'd take care of and polish up during the first part of next week. So we pulled an all-nighter and Vince came through as usual with all the graphics.Friday morning his part was done, and we agreed that he and Ronnie would take Carole up to the lake as planned. I would go to Babcock and endure their glacial pace of meet and greet to give the pitch. If I were lucky, I'd get done by five or six PM..