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bROTHERLY lOVE: top taken may 2012, bottom taken feb. 2012 |
as a kindergarten teacher i see kids pick their noses all day. my favorite nose-picking story is:
student: can
you hold my hand?
me: no, i just saw you pick your nose
student
lifts other hand and says: but i didn’t pick my nose with this hand.
it would be
a lie if i said that i haven’t ever seen my boys pick their noses. lincoln has
discovered that he likes to eat his boogers. the kid won’t eat pizza, but he’ll
eat boogers…i just don’t get it.
tonight we
were sitting at the dinner table, and of course lincoln is watching the rest of
us eat (this kid rarely eats, and yet he weighs more than the rest of his
brothers – i don’t get that either) and drew catches him eat a booger.
one of us
says: oh no! that booger is going to turn into a worm in your belly. lincoln of
course starts laughing. using my most serious face i tell him that last night
when he was sleeping i noticed something moving around in his belly so i
opened his belly button and pulled the worm out.
this kid
wasn’t sure if he should believe us or not, so daddy tells him to look at his
belly button. the crease in his button is where i had to sew it closed.
his eyes
grow big! really big!
all four boys look down at their bellies and notice that they all
look exactly the same.
landon: this
must be from when i was a baby because i don’t eat boogers anymore. . . right…
right.. right mommy.
drew tells
lincoln that only way to kill the worm is to eat applesauce and drink milk.
i have never
seen that kid scoop food in his mouth so quickly. after every bite he looked
down at his stomach.
afterwards,
we tell him to stand up so we can check his belly.
daddy: i
think i see a line in on his belly….
lincoln’s
eyes start popping out of his head.
all of a
sudden we hear a deep breath and a child start to panic….
get it out!
get it out of lincoln!! i don’t want lincoln to have a worm in his belly! tears
are streaming down clayton’s face as he expresses concern for his brother.
tonight
while putting them to bed..
clayton:
mommy, ummm.. mommy.. does, does lincoln have a worm in his belly?
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