Wednesday, February 15, 2012

God, lizards, spiders and the Devil

This is perhaps, my favorite story to tell about my children.  They just say the craziest things, and this story totally sums up their little personalities. One day in the middle of summer, we were outside in the backyard playing baseball.  While I was pitching to Dawson, I kept hearing Andi making a banging noise.  Finally after the noise irritated me enough, I looked over at her to see what she was doing.  It looked like she was just banging the ground with her bat, but I couldn't tell because she was so far away from me.  I asked her 'What in the world are you doing?'  She smirked at me, slung her little pink bat over her shoulder, put her hand on her hip & said 'Oh...just killin' a lizard.'  Dawson yells 'WHAT???'  We both ran over to her to see if its true.  Yup, she was killing a lizard all right.  She had completely demolished it.  The lizard was in about 10 different pieces & it was really a gross bloody sight.  I was trying to think of a profound thing to say to my four year old in this type of situation, but Dawson beat me to it.  He immediately began crying & yelled at her 'ANDI...WHY WOULD YOU KILL ONE OF GOD'S CREATURES????'  So, now I am trying to console him, while still searching for the right thing to say to her.  A few minutes later, we are all calm again & we have all promised to be nice to God's creatures from now on.  We resumed our baseball game.  I pitched to Dawson, and he hit the ball over my head and it landed in the grass by the fence.  As I bent down to pick the ball up, a grass spider about the size of a quarter jumped right on top of the ball.  I yelled for the kids to come look at the ball.  'Look, this crazy spider just jumped on top of our ball!'  They both ran up on either side of me & we were all bending over looking at the spider on top of the ball.  Suddenly, out of the corner of my eye, I saw Dawson's bat swinging down...and he completely smashed the spider.  I yelled,  'DAWSON!!!  You just got all upset with Andi for killing God's creatures, and then you just did the same thing!'  Dawson gave me a little smile & said 'Mom, I don't think God made spiders, I think the Devil did.'

1 comment:

Laura Odom said...

Hilarious. Your kids are too funny.