They brought it in and played with it and named it Slimey. Dabriah put it in a cup with some leaves and a few drops of water and they lovingly cared for it throughout the afternoon. I told them to make sure to keep an eye on it and encouraged them to put it back outside soon. I went up to fold some laundry.... About 20 minutes later I came back down to find my 3 oldest kids on the couch glued to PBS kids....and saw Slimey's cup and leaves scattered on the living room floor. Proceeding on to the toy room, I discovered Levi and Deacon sitting on the floor carefully examining green goo that was squished between their fingers, on their shirts, and on the carpet.
Okay, this was just a caterpillar, but I totally gagged.
The older kids heard my "oh no", and came running or I would have spared them the gruesome scene...
For the rest of the day Isaac cried and mourned over Slimey, poor kid. He'd get distracted for a little while and then the memory would hit him and he'd cry some more, sniffling "poor poor Slimey".
And for the rest of the day I sort of couldn't help looking at Levi and Deacon like little murderers.
3 comments:
Oh I am laughing so hard right now I am crying. Isn't it fun to be a mom. All these emotions and lessons in one afternoon. I hope Isaac will be ok.
I was sad fo Issac too! and I would have had a hard time not looking at Deacon and Levi as little murderers too the rest of the day. poor poor slimey.
Hahahaha!! I was laughing pretty hard when I read this! I mean its a very sad event, but the way you wrote it was great! RIP Slimey
PS: Onetime I had a pet caterpiller, it was in a jar and I took good care of it, oneday I woke up and it was missing! It made a cocoon and in like a month I had a butterfly! It was radical!
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