Fish or Person?

January 3, 2008 by Tara.

It was the middle of dinner and Joshua had excused himself to refill his cup with water. He returned to the table and proceeded to drink half the water in his cup. He was very impressed with himself and says to me, “Mom, it was this high but now the water is only this high. I drinked a lot! Did you see me? I was really thirsty.” He was beaming with pride.

Before I had the chance to correct him on his “drinked”, my impulsive personality came shining through and I replied, “You’re going to turn into a fish”.

Joe jumped right in, and started making fishy faces as he was drinking his water. I told Josh that Daddy turned into a fish. Joe showed Joshua how fish drink from cups - we were all laughing out loud at how funny Daddy looked and sounded.

All of a sudden, the room got brighter. Joshua turned to me and screams, “Ha! You are teasing! Daddy isn’t really a fish!”

I told Josh he was correct; we were just teasing him.

Joshua confirmed the teasing with a very strong statement: “If God makes you a fish, you’ll always be a fish and if God makes you a person, you’ll always be a person!”

He’s got a point!

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