Peter remains chipper as family and friends arrive at the hospital trying to grasp what is happening. It is a deeply sad and surreal scene. Peter understands that the doctors are going to have to check out his tummy later in the day, but the hospital staff assures him that “you’ll be asleep so it won’t hurt you at all”. “How do you know?”, he responds, as if to say that they don’t control his nap schedule.
He learns about the doctors’ masks and the anaesthesia mask and chooses the smell of his sleep medication — orange. He knows they’re going to poke into his tummy, but doesn’t know enough to get overly stressed. He makes hospital bracelets for his cousin Macy and cousin Buzz and builds a tower from legos to “protect the cat from the bad guy.” Peter is fine in his new setting. The adults are a wreck.