Alexis leaves a trail of tiny little pieces of brightly-colored paper everywhere she goes. It's fine. Truly. Every minute she spends cutting and coloring and creating twisted little works of art is a minute she spends not up my ass and making me crazy. So we keep the kid up to her chin in all of the tools she needs to cut and color to her heart's content. In return, she leaves a trail of tiny little pieces of brightly-colored paper everywhere she goes.
That love for cutting and coloring and creating is why I started asking Alexis if she wanted to make a leprechaun trap right around the start of March. We made one last year and she had a great time doing it. An excuse to draw a rainbow? That's TOTALLY her thing.
And I just re-read that post from last year.
OH-EM-EFF-GEE.
I am an idiot.
IDIOT.
I was going to continue on and tell you how odd it was that Alexis kept dodging the leprechaun trap thing, but THERE IT IS. THE ANSWER.
I must have asked the kid a dozen times in the past few weeks if she wanted to make a leprechaun trap and each time she was all -meh- about it. She would change the subject or ask to do something else or do that thing kids do where they pretend they can't hear you but YOU KNOW they can but then you forget what you said and wait, what was I talking about? I forget.
Kids make people stupid. It's true.
Anyway, tonight I asked again and this time Alexis finally came clean. "Mom, leprechauns are really creepy. I don't want to catch one."
But I should have known that was why she hadn't already made two dozen leprechaun traps. It's right there in a follow up to last year's post! "A fat guy in a red suit who smells suspiciously like booze and hangs out with freakishly short people is fine. The freakishly short people who make toys are fine. But! But! The freakishly short people who share her love of rainbows and gave her money and candy are evil soul-sucking harbingers of doom."
I can't even.
Is there something I need to remember about Easter? I better go read through my archives.
