Mississippi Pediatric Associates

02/16/2026

01/20/2026

👑🍰 King Cake Season Is Upon Us 🍰👑

If you find yourself arguing over purple vs. green icing, debating cream cheese vs. cinnamon, or secretly hoping you get the slice with the baby—congratulations. It’s officially King Cake season!

I usually try to avoid controversy, but this raises the eternal question: Who has the best King Cake?

Is that even a fair question? Or does it fall under Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle—the moment you try to precisely identify the best King Cake, your confidence in that judgment starts to decay? Observation alters the outcome.

That said, Loblolly Bakery in Hattiesburg is a relative newcomer that I will put them up against some of the best.
Here’s what ChatGPT said: The pastry strikes the perfect balance of adhesion, flakiness, and moisture—holding together without heaviness—while the icing is light yet abundant, and the whole cake comes festooned with Mardi Gras beads and doubloons, equal parts dessert and declaration. I couldn’t have said it better myself. It’s the icing that really does it for me, though.

👉 https://www.loblollybakery.com

So what’s your favorite? In the end, I suppose it really does come down to a matter of taste.

01/13/2026

We are seeing high rates of RSV and Flu. We are open until 6 PM (we take appointments until 5 PM). We can get your child in to be seen today.

01/08/2026

Flu is prevalent right now!

12/24/2025

Merry Christmas!

We are open until noon today. If you are sick, we will get you right in!

12/22/2025

Flu cases are increasing.

12/19/2025

We are seeing a good deal of RSV and Flu, as well as rhinovirus and adenovirus.

11/25/2025

We are open every day this week except Thursday!

Happy Thanksgiving!

11/11/2025

Isn’t one of the most ridiculous parts of human existence that it takes us well into our adulthood to appreciate our parents?

The year was 1971. That is my father in the foreground. He was stationed in West Germany during the Cold War and was in the field artillery. Like many men of that era, he was drafted into the United States Army. College plans on hold. A new bride and two one-year olds back in Tuscaloosa.

He is in the "fire direction center" -- the place where they calculated how to aim the artillery. Long before GPS or satellite or drone imagery, they did calculations "by hand" incorporating intelligence from forward observers and using meteorological data and charts and maps to arrive at a "deflection" and "quadrant". The calculations were then verified by a computer called a Field Artillery Digital Automatic Computer (FADAC). The information was relayed to guns via that phone in the foreground.

The very cool badge with the inscription “We Support the Line” was that of my father’s unit.

The other fine-looking gentleman is my grandfather, and I think this picture was taken at Fort Sill, Oklahoma (home of specialized training in field artillery) prior to his deployment to Europe in WWII. Like my father he was in the field artillery, but served as a machine gunner in a mechanized howitzer known as an “M-7 Priest.” He manned the 50-caliber machine gun.

Thank you to all our veterans! Sometimes it takes us half lifetime to really appreciate you!

10/31/2025

Whether you are Spiderman or those KPOP people, or anything in between, remember to send us your Halloween costume pictures!

09/25/2025

Flu vaccines are now available. Call to make an appointment and we can get you in!