This is my little nephew, Kyle. He looks much cuter in other pictures, but this one seems to accompany the post so much better. Get a load of that shirt!
Anyway, today Kamille told me this story...
His dad, Chris, gave him a dime. As he handed it over, he said, "Now, Kyle, don't you swallow this."
Whether it was just that Daddy's idea seemed like such a good one or willful disobedience, Kyle took the dime into his room and promptly swallowed it.
This reinforces an old saying.. well, one I made up, that I still haven't perfected the wording on: Kids are always trying to come up with ways to kill themselves, and they're just DARING you to let them. And that's true, isn't it? Hey, look, a bookshelf, I think I'll try to climb it! Hey, a pool! How about I fall in? Hey, some stairs! They look fun to fall down!
So now Kyle's parents are on Poop Watch 2008. Lucky them, right?
I'm Stacey. I'm a 31(!)-year-old Wisconsin girl living in sunny South Florida. The highlights in my life are my lovely boyfriend, my aloof cats, my adorable/adoring stepdogs, my two lumbering tortoises, select family members, being outside, being underwater, taking pictures, yadda yadda. Stay tuned for lots of babbling!
A small boy lived by the ocean. He loved the creatures of the sea, especially the starfish, and he spent much of his time exploring the seashore.
One day the boy learned there would be a minus tide that would leave the starfish stranded on the sand.
When the tide went out, he went down to the beach, began picking up the stranded starfish, and tossing them back into the ocean.
An elderly man who lived next door came down to the beach to see what the boy was doing. Seeing the man's quizzical expression, the boy paused as he approached. "I'm saving the starfish!" the boy proudly declared.
When the neighbor saw all of the stranded starfish he shook his head and said: "I'm sorry to disappoint you, young man, but if you look down the beach, there are stranded starfish as far as the eye can see. And if you look up the beach the other way, it's the same. One little boy like you isn't going to make much of a difference."
The boy thought about this for a moment. Then he reached his small hand down to the sand, picked up another starfish, tossed it out into the ocean, and said: "Well, I sure made a difference for that one!"
