Lollipop, Lollipop, Oh Lolli Lollipop
I don't do lollipops or suckers. Wait. Let me clarify, I don't let Anna do lollipops or suckers. They are disgusting sticky nasty messy tools of the devil. Plus, the children HOLD THEM... BY THEMSELVES... AND THEIR STICKY SLOBBER SPREADS DOWN THEIR SLEEVES.
Everywhere I go some nice shop keeper or bank teller offers us a sucker and I lunge in front of Anna and wave my hands and give them "the look" (you know, the please-stop-what-you're-about-to-do-cuz-I-want-my-kid-to-be-oblivious-look). That look. And, for two and half years it's worked. I have never had to deal with a tantrum over a sucker, I've never had to pull a sucker out of her hair. It's been one less hassle in our life. In fact, it's kind of something I was proud of. Yes, I may have lost the battle on juice, and I may have crumbled down at the site of Sesame Street and WonderPets, but, dang it, she's never had a lollipop.
Side note: Why is this the universal thing that every businessperson shares with small children? Suckers are nasty, sticky, messy inventions. Do you know what it's like trying to get children's hand unsticky? It's a losing battle, my friends, a burning ship. Everything they touch will be sticky the rest of the day.
Anyhoo, a Halloween parade on Sunday brought this little tiny triumph to an quick end and proved my point that suckers are the work of the devil. We ventured out to our local Main Street area to catch the costume parade (actually, we missed the entire thing, we were about 15 minutes late and the whole thing had already ended) and saw a bazillion children trick or treating at the shops. Costumes were adorable and we were having a lot of fun watching them, when a store owner handed Anna a Tootsie pop.
Mike unwrapped it and it was like the heavens opened up. Cue the music. Anna took one lick, then gave us a look as if to question why we'd been keeping this from her, and proceeded to cling to that Tootsie Pop, sucking on it for about 20 minutes straight.
And, this, this is what happened to my beautiful girl's face, proving once and for all that these nasty sticky creations should be outlawed.
The end.
4 comments:
That's hilarious.
You're are on a serious blog roll lately. I am impressed.
She's still cute!! :)
So funny, but I have to agree about suckers being the work of the devil. I can't tell you how freaked out I get when I see a kid running with a sucker in his or her mouth. Yikes.
Good timing, Maggie. My mother gave me a sucker for Elisa (her first) and you know what I did? I ATE it. Yeah, that's right. Another year of sucker-less bliss? I can only hope.
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