Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Bumblebees and Blocks

Sam was happily playing with his blocks and trains yesterday in the living room, while I started dinner.  Independent play at this hour of the day is a rare luxury and I was relishing in the fact that I could unload the dishwasher and start dinner, without hearing, "Mama? Mama play twains?"  every three minutes.  Then I heard a little voice say, "oh, spider."  Silence.  Then, "spida?  Spida fast!"  A few seconds later I heard, "no!  No spida play blocks!  Sammy's blocks!"  There was a note of panic in his voice so I went into the living room.  On his block I saw not a spider, but a huge bee.  Like the size of his pinky. 
"Mama, no spida play bwocks!" 


I slowly picked up the block, willing the bee to stay on it and not fly at Sam while I tried to run for the porch door.  Luckily it seemed to be attempting to pollinate the wooden cube and I got out the door and had to bang the thing off.  I returned the brick to Sam and told him it was a bumblebee, not a spider.
"No BUMBLEBEE pway Sammy bwocks!" he declared.  I agreed. When I finished unloading the dishwasher and had the rice started, I went back into to see what he was doing.  The block I had retrieved the bee from sat untouched, contaminated in the corner.  Sam was still shaking his head, muttering about the unwelcome guest.  I was glad I had gone to see this "spider" and that we had avoided a bee sting.

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