"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." -- unknown

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results - Albert Einstein

watching the neices
April 17, 2005 - 12:35 pm

the four-year-old, A, was feeling sick after dinner.. a statement backup by the fact she laid on the couch throughout an entire video. i've never seen her sit still so long.

after the video ended, she said she wanted to go outside and get some fresh air -- to talk a walk. it was about 6pm, so a walk was fine. jackets for all, as i knew it was chilly.

before we went outside she says, "if i gonna throwup, i'll run home really fast and run into the bathroom and do it there, ok uncle K?"

I laughed and said, "if you feel sick, you can just throwup in the grass, it will be ok." knowing there's no way in hell she'd be able to run home and i didn't want to have to worry about her running down a street with me chasing her pushing the stroller with her little sister in it. plus, it's true, you can just puke in grass.

she thinks about this and asks, "you can just throwup in grass?"

I reassure her, "yes, you can. if your outside you can, but if you're inside, you go to the bathroom."

she thinks again, "uncle K, it's ok to throwup in the grass outside, right?" I nod and she continues, "it's ok because dogs will come and pee on it and eat it all up."

i wasn't exactly sure how to reply to that.. except to laugh. yes, i suppose it's true.. a dog may well indeed come and pee on it.. and i suppose it's possible the dog might eat the puke.

dogs sometimes do odd things. at least odd in the people version of what's normal.

with very little further ado, outside we went. no one puked.