Saturday, January 20, 2007

My brother is evil!

Riva was mad this morning. Riva was bothering Judah and Judah bit him. I talked with both of them about rules and mid-way through, Shira stumbled him with nail polished over her face. I screamed for Jana to come deal with it. Riva freaked out and wouldn't talk to me. We were going to Hillel and she was waiting in the car with a grumpy face. The following conversation ensued:

"Judah is evil."
"I understand you feel that way and am upset with him. But he's just a little boy. How can he be evil?"
"He is really evil."
"Ummm...you mean like when he grows up, he'll become evil like Darth Vader?"
"Yeah! Exactly." she smiled.
"Well we need to stop that from happening. We need to influence him with the force. How do we do that?"
"Kill him!" she smiled.
"No silly we can't do that."
"How about we sell him?"
"Hmmm...how much should we sell him for?"
"50 cents."
Judah came in the car. I said "Riva think we should sell you. What do you think?"
Judah looked perplexed and a bit worried and said..."No...."
I quickly countered "Maybe we should sell Riva instead?"
His faced beamed and he smiled and shouted "Yeah!"
"How much should we sell her for?"
"55 dollars!" he shouted excitedly.
"Hey that's a lot money! Riva..." I said turning to her, "I think we should sell you
instead as I can get more money for you."
"No..." she smiled.

The whole tension was gone and we droved off to Hillel with the incident now forgotten and confined to history. Later that day, they both went to a birthday party to their neighbor's house 3 houses away. I had to stay home and watched Shira as she napped. I watched them from the front of the house walking to the neighber's house and holding hands and a smile come across my face.

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