Sunday, September 02, 2007

Problem and Solution

On Saturday, July the twenty-eighth, Clara Grace asked for three animal crackers from her car seat. Not long after, she requested three more. About that same time, her baby brother, Everett, started crying in his car seat.

Clara Grace’s daddy asked her, “Do you think Everett wants a cracker?”

Clara Grace answered confidently, “No he doesn’t want an animal cracker. Stop crying Everett.”

Curiously, her daddy angled his rear view mirror and caught sight of his little girl tossing bits of dismembered animals into Everett’s car seat.

Clara Grace glanced at her daddy’s eyes trained on her in the mirror and employed a hasty change of tactics. She reached out and patted her brother’s seat while cooing consciously, “Oh, Everett, it’s okay. Don’t cry. It’s all right.” Once she felt a sufficient show had been made, she requested, “Turn off the mirror now, Daddy.”

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