One of Levi's favorite stories from his rhyme bible is the one about David, the scrawny guy who defeats Goliath the giant with God's help and a well-aimed rock to the forehead. In fact, ask Levi what Goliath says when David hits him with a rock. "Ohhhhhgggg," he'll say, with a scrunched up face.
Well, Levi has experienced his own encounter with a rock. This rock, in fact:
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| (rock near Levi's foot) |
This rock is one of his friend's favorite rocks to play with from the rock garden. This friend plays gently, spinning the rock around on the pavement. Levi decides the rock needs to go back into the garden, but instead drops it on his big toe. It took a while for the pain of the boo boo to set in and was exacerbated by Mommy's attempts to put Neosporin and an Elmo band-aid on it. Mommy's interference set him to a-hollering.
Apparently this event has really stuck with Levi. He continues to point to his toe and retell the story as only a 22-month-old can.
Levi, while pointing to toe: "Toe."
Mommy: "What happened to your toe?"
Levi: "Boo boo."
Mommy: "You got a boo boo on your toe?"
Levi: "Rock."
Mommy: "A rock gave you a boo boo on your toe?"
Levi: "Uh huh."
Levi, thinking about it a moment: "Ahh-mohh." (Translation: Then you put that stupid Elmo band-aid on me and made it worse.)
I'm not sure if this ordeal makes him David or Goliath, but I love my son.
I don't think you made it clear exactly how often he recounts this story ;-) Because he tells it all the time to anyone who will listen. I think at breakfast on Sunday (over pancakes!) alone he probably ran through it 3 or 4 times. Again more on the ride home. We wonder how long this story will stick around. I imagine him being 8 and asking him, "Do you remember that time you dropped a rock on your toe when you weren't even two yet?" and him still recounting the story. Well the picture may jog his memory.
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