If You Drink Ice
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007It was late afternoon. My husband was drinking a glass of ice water. My 4 year old came to him.
“Daddy, you know if you drink all these ice, you will freeze…”
“Yeah?” asked Daddy, not convinced.
“Yeah! Your heart will freeze and your heart will break like ice…”
Hmm… THAT was interesting. Daddy put down his glass.
But the little guy wasn’t ready to stop.
“And you will pop like a bubble. Pop!” he opened his arms, imitating the burst of the unfortunate bubble.
“and then,” he continued, with a mischievous smile on his face, “your wedding ring will fall to the floor… and I will get it!”
He had been nagging for our wedding rings recently, without success. After he broke my husband’s Treo password (God knows how) and deleted all his applications a few days ago, we determined it was a good idea to keep certain things away from him.
Obviously, that didn’t stop him from wanting, and imagining…
