 While putting my daughter to bed one night, in her dark room, she said, “Can you see, Daddy?”I said, “Not yet, honey.”She said, “You can’t see yet until your cuticles get adjusted in the dark!”Cuticles--I smiled at her words.--------------------------------------------One evening, while watching the movie “The March of the Penguins,” one of the baby penguins wasn’t walking away from the parent as it should do, so my little one said, “Is that one of the hesitant ones?”“Yes, “ I responded.“The parent is moving it to the chick group,” she continued.Then she asked, “Did you see how those chicks formed a huddle and how they pulled so hard?”She continued, “If the chicks saw a predator, they would huddle and screech as loud as they can!”“They would do that,” I grinned.--------------------------------------------My Mom is in a dementia facility and doesn't talk easily on the phone, so one afternoon while on the phone with my Mom, my daughter asked me to send her love.When I got off the phone, my little one said, “I sent my love to Grandma, Dad. I sent my whole body’s love--my nose’s love, my leg’s love, my eye’s love and all the other things like my veins and my arterie’s love---I’m sending sooo much love!”--------------------------------------------Early one evening, my little one and I were having a light bite to eat, when she put down her cheese and crackers and looked at me with a smile and said, “There are so many interesting things to be—so, I think I’ll be an all-worker!”An all-worker, hmmm ... “You mean when you become an adult?” I guessed.“Yes, an all-worker,” she repeated, “I’ll do a different job every day!”Ah, a person who does many jobs because they’re all so interesting--an all-worker!all content The New Parent © 2007
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