In the last three years or so, I've heard a lot of reasons why the H-bomb shouldn't be an only child, but one of my absolute favorites has always been "without a sibling, who is he going to blame stuff on?" Turns out, only children are pretty resourceful - even without actual other people to blame, they're still pretty good at shifting the burden. I actually always assumed he'd blame the cat, and he has tried that once or twice, but mostly she's not around when he's doing naughty stuff enough to be really useful in that capacity. Instead, he's taken to blaming inanimate objects. Recently, we've had a spate of conversations like this:
"Bomber, who spilled this apple juice onto your plate?" "The cup!" "The cup? The cup spilled itself?" "Yes, the cup tipped over! I tried to stop it, but it just kept going."
"H-bomb, if you step on the Little People farmer, it'll hurt your feet." "I didn't step on it! It did something to me!" "It did? What did it do?" "It hurt my foot!""H, how did your ball get stuck in the cat door?" "It was trying to go through, but it didn't fit."
So there you go. Any of you who were worried about who my kid is going to blame things on, you can rest assured, he's got it all figured out.
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