Upon announcing that I was going to put Noah’s eye drops in his eyes, he (Noah) threw a royal fit and Sammy responded in such a manner as to protect his brother. Here’s what I heard from the sidelines:
Sammy: Mommy, wu (you) are not gonna give Noah eyedrops. I will cut wu wif my sword and throw wu in the fiery furnace!
Dad: Sammy, come here.
Sammy: Are wu gonna spank me?
Dad: No. (very calmly) You never tell Mommy you are going to throw her in a fiery furnace. That is just mean and doesn’t show Mommy love. Go ask her to forgive you.
Sammy: Mommy, I sah-wee (sorry).
Mommy: I forgive you, Sammy.
I guess the sheer hilarity was in the fact that no voices were raised, everyone stayed calm, and it was just made very clear that we do not throw anyone into any type of furnace.
And Noah proceeded to flip out regarding the eye drops.
Too cute. I’m glad Sammy was standing up for his brother!
We’ve been having similar battles with eye drops. They have red, itchy eyes due to allergies and I believe that chopping off a toe would be less painful than subjecting them to the pain and horror of eye drops.
(I hope you all know that I’m being sarcastic)