Back to the sucker... We are sitting in the waiting area and there is a basket of dum-dums sitting on the table. I see Kaiya's eyes connect with the basket. She looks at me next and starts talking about how much fun she had on Halloween. I know she is getting up her courage to ask me if she can have some candy. After talking about trick-or-treating she starts to say something, but then looks down at the floor and I said -- "Kaiya, did you want to ask me something?" Kaiya says, "No nothing." About 30 seconds go by and she says, "Mama, can I have dat candy?" I told her that if she was a good girl while we waited for the car to be finished, that she could have one sucker.
Fast forward 2 hours later... fortunately the service center had an enclosed kids room that we holed up in while they worked on the car. I am thinking that she has probably forgotten about the dum-dums. Yeah right. :) We start to leave and she brings it to my attention. We go to the basket and she is overwhelmed with the number of options she has. So many flavors to choose from. Then again... she really has no idea what a flavor is. So I suggest strawberry and she takes it. The sweet little girl didn't really know what to do with the sucker. So I told her just to put it in her mouth, lick it, and don't bite it.
After working on the sucker for about 5 minutes, she pulled it out of her mouth and says, "Nope - no strawberry yet!" And went back to licking it. I had to explain that it just tastes like strawberries, and there aren't any inside. She also had a moment of freaking out when she realized that it was getting smaller. She had her heart set on showing it to daddy when she got home. So she had to stop licking it when it got really small so that she could show Tony when she got home.
Before anyone thinks we're crazy for not giving Kaiya a sucker until she is 2 1/2... the benefits far outweigh the depravation. :) She has only been sick (including colds), twice in her life! Definitely worth it.
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Does that include what my Aeva gave her??:)
What a sweet girlie..
That is exactly what Brian and I are going to try and do with Kaylee. It may be hard , but totally worth it.
Hey I called you the other night. Thanks for the heads up on the carters clothes. She is not having the bumps on her neck anymore, I had not put two and two together on that. I just thought it was the shirt collar, not the so called tag. We are jsut sending back the ones that qualify with teh tags even though they told me to send back more. I think she will be fine.
Hope everything is going well with you guys. We miss you guys and hope maybe next tiem we can come visit you guys.
Yep! That includes the lovely foot & mouth -- or whatever it's called. :) Wasn't that fun?
oh LOADS!!!..Stupid YMCA!
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