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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