But occasionally, something bad does happen that causes me to just plan LOSE it in the laughing department.
That happened today.
After playing with the Legos, Jonge went off on his own and created a rather convincing alien costume out of a bunch of pipe cleaners and sticky-back googly eyes.
Everyone had a turn being chased around and seemed to be enjoying it.
Until Kado had had enough.
During what I thought of as a friendly alien assault Kado bit Jonge on the back. It was shocking to Jonge, who thought it was all in good fun, and equally shocking to Kado to hear the screams that ensued.
When an incident like that happens I'm never sure what to do first. Console the injured party, or grab the guilty party?
I grabbed the guilty party and told him to 'wait right here'. And he did. Now screaming just as loudly as his brother.
After assessing the injury (it looked mighty painful to me!) and applying the proper attention, I brought the two together to figure this thing out.
Now, of course, I had my own thoughts about this. Jonge was the only one with the alien get-up and the other three, who seemed to have been enjoying it, where at his mercy. My thought was that Kado doesn't quite have the language to express that enough is enough, but he does have teeth.
So I asked him, "Why did you bite your brother?"
His answer was very animated and rose up and down the tonal scale, "It's because I got the biting hiccups, and when you get those they never go away!"
Then he made a believable apology.
After which Jonge looked at me and said, "The biting hiccups? What are those?"
And we laughed, and we laughed, and we laughed.
Everyone except for Kado has caught a cold. But mostly we are all afraid of catching the biting hiccups, because if you catch those, they never go away!
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biting hiccups - that is a good one!!
That's cute! Lisa :O)
Oh Judy! As I was reading I was wondering what Kado would say. Those biting hiccups are something you want to stay away from.
I wish you were my grandma.
I totally do understand Kado, only, my family does not understand biting hiccups. You get them when you are so annoyed with somebody you could scream and at the same time you know the other ones behaviour is only weird and annoying in your eyes. Because you can not make any other person understand why it bothers you, your only resource of reacting is buting, and because you try to not do that, the need to bite comes again and again, like hiccups. As a grown up you can not go and bite, so the hiccups mostly end up in me going away fronm that place and person or biting the soft tissue on the inside of my hand under the thumb. It hurts, but the hiccups subside and I do not embarras myseld by biting, screaming, throwing a tantrum or such things. Biting hiccups, I totally do understand them and I have words to explain, Kado does not. I just did not know how it was called, now I know. DM
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