I wandered away, looking for Wyatt. I was the bearer of the worst kind of news: bedtime.
I found him in the living room sitting on the floor surrounded with trains and tracks, reading a book with his cousin Hadley.
Hadley is the youngest Mikkelson girl, and she has a way with kids. Wyatt adores her, and Hadley always finds time for him. I often threaten Shawn and Rischelle that I'm going to keep Hadley at our house so that I have constant access to her amazing playing-with-my-kids skills. They just laugh. I think they think I'm kidding!
I broke the news to him, and after some wrestling of wills, some broken-hearted complaints, and finally, some hugs and kisses all around, we headed down the stairs.
Wy and I were chatting while I got him dressed for bed, and out of the blue, he says:
"And then he was running naked in the road!"
Not sure I heard him correctly (I've never heard him say "naked", let alone "naked in the road"), I made him repeat himself three times.
He assured me that yes, 'he' was in fact running naked down the road.
I tried not to laugh hysterically - wondering who in the world this 'he' might be - and why he was streaking through my boy's imagination.
It was when I was back upstairs, cleaning up the trains mess in the living room that I saw the book that Hadley had been reading him.
from David Shannon's "No, David!"
5 comments:
We love that book. My children identify strongly with "him." ;o)
lol! I have to get that book. A 3 yr old a couple doors down from our house has in fact taken off down the road in his birthday suit. Quite the hilarious scene.
What a cutie Wyatt is.
:) I love kid comments when you don't know where they got them.
....and Hadley adores that Wy-guy too!
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