Anna (age 7): Oh, he’s big!
Sarah (age 7): Here, use my shoe.
Jonah (age 5): No, don’t. He’s my friend.
Anna: I’m just going to touch him!
Sarah: Ew! You broke him!
Jonah: You killed him!
Anna: Well, he’s dead now.
Sarah: You broke him in half! I think we need a shovel.
Jonah: I don’t like when people kill my bug friends! I always know when bugs are my friends!
Sarah: We should get him out of here. We should bury him!
Anna: He moved! Look!
Jonah: He’s alive! He’s alive!. . . Ew. He has blood.
Sarah: I think we should get him out of here.
Jonah: I’ll take him.
Anna: He’s starting to stink.
Jonah: That’s too yucky.
Sarah: Pick him up!
Jonah: I don’t think so.
Sarah: You have to! You volunteered!
Jonah: I just can’t.
Anna: Just go get the shovel.
Jonah: Okay!
Naiah: His leg moved!
Sarah: We have to get him out of here. He might be mad at us.
They just NEVER quit.
The little buggers!!
Eeew. I hope you didn’t have to actually SEE the thing.
I love that Naiah didn’t come in until the end of the conversation! LOL
I’m picturing Naiah standing quietly by observing the entire exchange, and at the end she finally adds, like a footnote (he) “His leg moved!”
I am very impressed by your ability to recall the conversation between 4 children! I would have to be standing there feverishly scribbling it all down trying to remember who said what
Oh, I was feverishly typing from my room as all of this occurred in the hallway.
I wasn’t about to go out there and witness the carnage.
And Naiah came in to give me a full report afterward. It went like this:
“There was a beetle in the hallway. We broke him. Jonah wanted to be his friend.”
How absolutly amazing, I can picture the whole thing. Loads of love