Dismemberment and the Nostril Stealing Robot Baby
April 23, 2008
You guessed it! This blog is about Carson. Monday I arrived at daycare to pick up Carson and Meals. I went to Carson’s room first and laying on top of the cubby was a baby doll with the leg broken off. Oh-oh! I look up and see the afternoon teacher trucking towards me at full speed with this look in her eyes. The afternoon teacher is of an interesting sort! She’s about 5 foot nothing (if even) and talks really loud. She kind of reminds me of Sherri O’Terry (sp?) from Saturday Nigh Live. As she approached me I noticed her eyes, they were huge like she had something she just couldn’t wait to get out. That’s when I knew my boy was the cause of this poor dolls compromising situation. Come to find out, Carson broke the poor baby doll’s leg off. It really upset me becasue he is not normally a destructive boy. Miss Christy (or Sherri O’Terry) told me what happened. I talked to Carson and told him he would have to buy a new baby doll with his own money. Once we got home I told Dan about what happened. He talked to Carson a little more over dinner. That’s when Carson nonchalantly told us that he broke the baby’s leg off, threw it in the oven, cooked it and ate it. Going forward I’m going to be looking for signs of cruelty to animals and the desire to read “Catcher in the Rye”, I’m just glad it wasn’t published in a board or picture book version.
On that same note… When I got Carson out of bed yesterday morning, he started saying something about a baby and his nostrils. At first I couldn’t quite understand what he was saying but the more I talked to him the more I figured it out. He had had a dream about a baby with a robot brain trying to steal his nostrils.
I’m wondering if these two things are tied together. I would have thought the baby would have had a robot leg instead of a robot brain but who knows how the four year-old (or almost four year-old) psyche works!
When I dropped him off at school yesterday morning I noticed two of the kids “playing” with the dismembered baby. One was using the leg and the other was using the rest of the baby and they were fencing. It was a little disturbing and it kind of contradicted what I had told Carson. I explained to him that when he breaks a toy it means no one else can play with it, but according to what I saw that morning, my wonderful son took one toy and made it into two. We’re still going this weekend to buy a new baby for the room.
Do you think he was playing Tyrannosaurus Rex when he tore the baby doll’s leg off? But of course he knows T-Rex didn’t bother cooking his food. I’m glad you are having him replace it with his own money. Maybe they need to offer more snacks at school.
Love, Mom
He was showing off for his friends. Knowing him, he was probably trying to re-establish himself because of the poop incident.
I tell you what…he is way too funny for his own good! I think it’s great that he has to replace it with his own money. That’s why you are a smart mom, who has a smart kid! If I remember correctly my sister used to rip the heads off of her Barbies, and she has finally turned out ok…..