This child is not distraught because it is 39 degrees outside and she has no clothes. Nor is she concerned about the red marker stains on her face, the bruise on her scrawny leg, or the fact that her grandmother pulled her bangs back with an ugly clip and then got out the camera.
Being stuck overnight with an evil gramma who refuses to get the Chutes and Ladders game from the car until morning did not elicit half as much sorrow. She even managed to smile (actually beam a few times) when the demanding gramma forced her to help carry in groceries and cook dinner.
A dire situation much worse than anything the average four-year-old child will ever experience is responsible for this sadness. First, the gramma lost her memory. Despite multiple reminders, she was unable to remember anything about the new cousin who showed up at Chucky Cheese with a puppy for this child's birthday. The cousin's name meant nothing to this senile grandmother and the perfectly replicated yipping of the puppy did nothing to jog her memory.
The hand-to-the-head distress came when the gramma swore that no one bothered to tell her when a shark snuck into the little girl's room and ate the puppy. This gramma is waiting for morning to make an appointment with a good therapist to find out what happened to her memory.
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what a cutie though!
She's such a ham, Ruth. I didn't have the camera out when she was telling the story and really looking like the world had ended. Later, the more I thought about it the cuter I thought the story was so I got the camera out. I asked her to tell me one more time about how sad that shark made her. She tried to recreate the mood.
There were sharks in Kentucky at that time, and I saw a heck of alot of them.
I think gramma should rush out and buy her every toy she wants so she will cheer up!!!
And I guess Batman must have been on vacation that day.
The two older grandchildren are able to write their own now (ages eight and five). My grandson read his four-page story to me last night and asked if I could be a children's book. I suggested he work on the illustrations because I think with very little work it could be.
She is a real cutie. We've got a landshark prowling our living room; he likes to chew on the arms of the sofa and to eat vanilla pudding. He has learned to stay away from our dog because landsharks look an awful lot like squeaky toys.
Thanks, Sandy.
Kids say the darndest things you know. The most interesting conversations that I've had while working in retail were while I was working in the toy department.
During that birthday party conversation, she also told me her grandfather did not come to her party. I reminded her that he lives in another state and travels outside the country often. She said, "Yes. He forgot to pack his suitcase and his kids so he couldn't come."
Today, she humored me and played "Name things that begin with the letter S". I filmed it for Janna.