I have a long list, of things I never thought I would have to say to my children....another post of another day, but yesterday, I did have to tell my Scarlette to stop lighting her brother on fire.
A little background with this one. Last week, Hanna turned 17, so, of course we had to have a cake with as many candles on it that we could find. After Hanna and Jayden and Scarlette all blew out the candles, the little ones had to have candles on their own piece of cake, and have them re-lit, then the birthday song sung, and then blow them out. This was repeated about 7 times...or until there was hardly any candle left.
Fast forward to yesterday, when we are all out on the front porch. Jayden wants to hold the lighter. Fine. Then he starts lighting imaginary candles, singing the birthday song, and blowing out mentioned candles. It was very humorous to watch, and he was having a great time.
UNTIL...Scarlette started blowing out his imaginary candles, while he was singing the song, so he had to re-light them and sing again. This happened several times, I asked Scarlette not to blow out Jayden's imaginary candles, but to no avail-she was having great fun with it. So, I encouraged Jayden to share the lighter, so Scarlette could light her own imaginary candles. Which he very nicely did.
At which point, Scarlette imaginarily lit him on fire...and he screamed and cried in such pain you might have thought he was really on fire. After I comforted him, by blowing him out and giving kisses and hugs...I calmly said to Scarlette, "Please stop lighting your brother on fire." And then laughed so hard to myself.
