I'll take that...and put it in my water glass.

I don't know why Darby does this, but any time there's an available and accessible water glass, she takes the nearest inanimate object and tosses it in.  Let me give you an example...

The other day, I was out clipping back my perennials in the yard.  I had a cup of water sitting nearby because it was a pretty warm day.  I knew better, really.  It's not like this is the first time this has happened.  Darby took the garden shovel and plopped it right in my cup.  That's just one of many, many, instances.  Last night's example was the best.

We took the kids out to Dairy Queen for buy one, get one for 99 cents blizzards after soccer practice.  After we sat down (Do anyone else's kids still insist on sitting in booster seats when they're readily available...just because it's fun-even Naomi's "Felicity" doll had a booster seat!  I didn't even fit in the BOOTH!) and began eating, Naomi dropped her spoon on the seat.  She picked it up and plopped it back into her M&M/Brownie blizzard, at which point I said, "Naomi?  That has 'butt germs' on it now, and you just put it back in your blizzard!"  The look on her face was hilarious...a mixture of disgust and hilarity.  She climbed out of her own booster, and somehow maneuvered over Felicity's booster, and went to get another spoon.  At this point, you're probably wondering if this post has anything to do with Darby.  Yes.  It does.  See, DARBY, will seize any opportunity to create havoc.  I'm sure she learned that from her brother.  Darby, realizing that the "butt germ" spoon was very near Naomi's drinking water, grabbed the spoon, and plopped it into the water cup, of course!  Sometimes, I wonder what's going through Darby's head.  Was she trying to clean the spoon off for her sister?  Did she just want to know what would happen to the water if she did it?  Who knows?  Dallas sprang into action, grabbed the spoon, and Dallas, Tate and I just looked at each other with a widespread look of panic...a "What do we do?!  What do we say?!" kind of moment.  Seconds later, Naomi returned victorious with her new spoon.  "Look!  It's shorter than the last one!"  No one said a thing.  We laughed and laughed and laughed, but no one told her.  I sat there looking into the slightly murky water cup as Naomi took a sip.  We all laughed.  Naomi never knew, and I don't think Darby knew either.

God bless Dairy Queen.