Friday, May 30, 2008

Try not to confuse the candle with the cake

Because Reilly's birthday is over the summer, she got to celebrate her big day yesterday at school, which of course Shawn had prepared a cake for, a cake that was dutifully topped with a large candle in the shape of a "3."

When I retrieved Reilly and the cake carrier and the partially used candle at the end of the day, I noted that there was a chunk missing from the top of the "3" candle, a detail I wouldn't have paid much consideration except that later in the evening, when Reilly was struggling to fall asleep, she whispered across the dark room to me, "Daddy, Kai ate my candle."

I told her not to worry, that we would buy her a new one for her real birthday party, and then stifled a laugh while the image of Reilly's classmate biting into the waxy candle wandered through my mind.

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