"Daddy Killed A Frog Today"

This was so funny, I had to blog it. Today I went to a b-day party for one of my friends. Andy was awesome enough to watch all 3 kids. He just took the time to get some stuff done around the house. One of those things was our mailbox post. It's been majorly wiggly since we moved in. He dug out the post and set it in concrete. In the process Andy found a hibernating frog. He dug it up and it jumped around a little without showing too much energy. He thought it was just waking up. So a few hours later I come home and they were telling me about this frog so we decided to go out and see how it was doing. Well it died. Andy had accidentally clipped it with the shovel and it died. Andy got to it before the kids and one of our friends distracted the kids while Andy buried it. Now, I am not one to shield my kids from death. I don't want them to think it's scary or bad so I told Andy we should just tell them what happened. So he did. I told them the frog was in heaven and it was okay that he died. The kids just kinda thought it was funny that he was in heaven and away we went on with our day. Fast forward a few hours later. Terhan is sitting on the couch telling a story. He had found a song sheet of Andy's and was pretending that it was a story of all the things he had done today. And guess what the beginning of the story was? "Today, Daddy killed a frog." I laughed and laughed! He didn't say it sad just very matter-of-factly. Kids, they are sooooo funny!