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Saturday, March 10, 2007

The Lava Lamp

My older son (OS) was very impressed with the lava lamp that was in his room at my aunt's house. He had never seen a lava lamp before and to top it off the blobs were purple and pink; two colors that he really likes. He was so intrigued by the lava lamp, that it seemed like every time we were in the room with him, he would talk about it.

OS: Look at the lava lamp.
AE: Yes, it's very nice.
OS: Don't touch the lava lamp.
AE: That's right. Leave the lava lamp alone.

As is typical when you tell a 3.5 (that's right he just turned 3.5) year old not to do something, they do it anyway. Hence, a big crash when OS was supposed to be sleeping followed by a lot of tears. This was apparently followed by more tears as the crash woke up my younger son who was sharing a room with OS (I was eating a fresh doughnut at Krispy Kreme). My husband and uncle rushed up to OS's room to find the lava lamp mysteriously on the floor. Miraculously OS didn't bother the lamp again. Of course that could be because we left the next day!

posted by Alex Elliot @ 11:48 PM 1 comments

1 Comments:

At 3/15/2007 1:53 PM, Suzanne said…

Ha ha. When you tell most people not to do something, they do it anyway. That is the problem with people. Most of us don't mentally make it out of our toddler years.

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