What Little Boys Are Made Of
He found it.
Thoroughly inspected it.
Then, twirled it around.
He called me out onto the deck to show me.
"I love my new worm, Momma."
Then, he did what every little boy must do to a worm.
He ripped it in half.
I would have gagged. But, I've come a long way, baby.
why-oh-why must they do that? i'm just glad tucker's past the stage where he tries to eat the bugs he finds.
ReplyDeleteThat's hilarious...here I was preparing myself for a deep and thoughtful Sarah post...made me laugh out loud at my desk!
ReplyDeletehehe. I was such a strange girl. I would put worms in the pockets of my pink and frilly jumper and name them things like Isabella and Anna Marie. My poor mother washed more than I like to think about.
ReplyDeleteSarah...
ReplyDeleteYou had me going down this "Awww" moment and then "he ripped it in half"... bahahaha... That was such a great story... took you down a path and then swirled around to bite cha in the butt. Love it!
And love Jack, too..
HA, that's the difference between boys and girls . . . when my girls find worms, they pet them and name them and cry when they accidentally "break."
ReplyDeletenot sure why my comment says Warren, this is Jami : )
ReplyDelete...yep, God made you to be the mom of boys. Way to keep down your lunch. LOL at Jami's comment...
ReplyDeleteMy little boys are made of the same stuff. They're guilty of many little worm homicides already, and we've only just started to garden! Some of their MO's: laying them out on the underside of the 'turtle' sandbox lid (dried to a crisp), drowning them in same 1/2 shell because I said they needed water, burying them in the dump truck with sand & dirt (mashed flat). Not to mention the 'broken' ones. :)
ReplyDeleteUghhh! The pictures are cute though!
ReplyDeleteyeah, the poor worms. Audrey thinks they're "so cute", huh? I think I remember liking them way back when.
ReplyDeletelandon's eyes just lit up when he saw those pictures - he could relate to jack!
ReplyDeleteoh those boys :o)
So...er...I was going to say sweet but that doesn't really fit. So boy! How fun do those little boys make your life!? Never a dull moment!
ReplyDeleteLindsey used to have pet worms.
ReplyDeleteDaddy told Kristen that if you broke a worm in half, it would grow into two worms.
Lindsey watched in horror one day as she caught Kristen cutting up her beloved worms with a butter knife.
FYI: Earthworms do not survive after being broken in half.
Poor Lindsey.
Makes me think of all the talk about the bug on Anna's leg on the way to the movie. They are SO boy!!!
ReplyDeleteActually, you'd be surprised to learn that ripping them in half doesn't kill them. Since worms are made up of segments, the segments can be separated and each one can grow into a brand new worm.
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