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I just did...

   Yesterday I left the kitchen for just a little bit and my three year old was on a chair by the coffee cupboard as happy as could be.  When he saw me coming back he told me this.  " Hey, I started a fire and then I blowed it out! I just thought I would!"  All said with a little awe and excitement and the part about, "I just thought I would" was with a shrug of his shoulders...trying to be nonchalant.  "And so I did" he says.   I thought he was being silly because how would he have started a fire anyhow?  So I asked him if he really did.  And then I got closer and I saw a burned up match laying there.  And in his hands he held the top of the box of matches.  So I told him to show me what he did.  And he did! He stared another one like a pro!  :(  So we had a talk.  And he has agreed to never start another match until he's six.  And I put the matches out of sight and out of mind hopefully. 
  

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Arla said…
'Fraid I'da scorched his britches. He's a lucky boy to have you for a mom. Maybe that would be easier on em that your "talk". Might be something to that.
January 13, 2011 1:46 PM
Charlotte said…
Ack! Makes four months look easy! At least I don't have to worry about arson! :)
January 13, 2011 8:25 PM
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