The Gig is Up. She Knows I'm Lame Now.
Our pond is always full of surprises, which I suppose is just what happens when you intentionally dump 5000+ gallons of water in your backyard and animals find it.
Before you frantically click that X in the corner, it wasn't a snake. This time. I promise!
I have a new pond-related mission. There are two tadpoles hanging out in there and I happened to notice that one of them has started to get legs. I know this because the tadpoles are stupid and have been living inside the filter box, inches away from a rather sucky form of death. That form of death is known as "death by giant pump suction." They are in my way when I try to clean the algae out of the filter box, so we've had lots and lots of conversations about how there are 4000 other SAFER places they could hang out.
Froggy children listen just as well as human children. Obviously.
So today I went outside to see if I could find the almost-legged tadpole and force it to pose for some portraits. The only problem is that for the first time in its life, it wasn't in the filter box. Typical child, right? As I tried to see if I could spot it in the water somewhere, a little something else caught my eye.
Do you see it? Huh? HUH? DO YOU?
I am easily amused. This we know. I took photos of that silly thing for ten solid minutes.
It's just that it's not every day that you see a frog hanging out in a fairy's lap, am I right?
Alexis was due to arrive home from school about an hour after my photo rendezvous with the frog who was looking for some fairy lovin'. I thought she would think it was the COOLEST THING EVER, so I offered the frog $5 to just stay there.
I owe the frog $5. I hope he has a pocket to put it in.
As Alexis bounced off of the school bus, I excitedly hurried out to her so that I could show her the COOLEST THING EVER. I drug her around to the back of the house and asked her if she could find something really cool.
Alexis looked and looked and looked, proving once again that you can't trust a six-year old to see something that is right in front of her face.
She looked up. She looked down. All the while, she kept chattering and listing what she thought she might be looking for. I hadn't actually mentioned that we were frog hunting, which proved to be a BIG mistake.
Her guesses were ... amazing. And by "amazing" I mean "WHAT THE HECK?" Why the kid would expect to find a pony floating in our pond, I really don't know. She also guessed a new Barbie, a Monster High Doll, a duck, and a turtle.
Yes, Alexis. I'm going to go spend real money on a toy and then drown it in the pond. WAIT. Where is that talking Justin Bieber doll? I think he would LOVE to go for a swim, right alongside the duck and the turtle.
When her ludicrous guesses started to get completely out of control, I finally gave her a hint. FIND THE FROG, KID.
"What, that?" she said as she pointed.
"Yeah!" I replied, still thinking COOLEST THING EVER.
"Mom, that's so boring," she said as she stormed into the house, totally and completely disappointed as she had just discovered that her mom is lame.
I still think the frog sitting on the fairy is cool, though.
Monday, May 7, 2012
Reader Comments (9)
That's a wicked cool frog. For reals.
That thing is huge!! Awesome!
Well I think it's totally cool. Love her reaction :)
Maybe he was a prince waiting for the fairy to kiss him? BTW love the fairy..
HOLYSHIT! oh michelle, that first photo made my heart so happy! and then you gave me more. you are so good to me.
Yeah, you can never really know what a kid will find "cool", when the field is so wide open.
Your story reminds me of a time, as a boy, when my dad said, "Wanna pitch-n-catch?"
I said, "Boy! Do I ever!"
I just hope he didn't see the crushed look on my face as I realized that he meant "Did I want to pitch, and, you know, then catch..." Toss the old baseball, if you will.
I thought he meant one of those frames with a netting on it that you throw the ball at it and it bounces back, called "The Pitch -n-Catch."
I was a terrible son.
But I'm with you in that the frog placement is way cool... cooler, even, than some almost-legged tadpole.
That thing is BIGGER than a pony. Seriously! I am impressed and I only get to see the pictures.
Wow, and to think I was excited about finding a normal-sized toad in some grass yesterday....good thing I wasn't trying to impress a six year old :)
Hahaha! This is really cute/funny! Definitely had a few of these myself! Love your blog, I found it through Hfamilyjourney, my sister-in-law! I am a new follower :)
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